UMaine alum co-founder of software company CourseStorm

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My name is Matt. I’m from CourseStorm. We make it impossibly simple to register online for local classes. We’re located right here in Orono, Maine.

I graduated from the University of Maine’s New Media program in ’05. Since then, I’ve been working right down the road at RainStorm. We spun off this CourseStorm product and company. I’m a co-founder of that company.

I love working with Top Gun. We had fantastic speakers come in for our biweekly classes that are right here at the university. They’re very knowledgeable. They’re very helpful. Having quick access to them has been phenomenal.

They have us do a lot of pitching on a weekly class basis. Whenever we go into class, we’ll do pitching. That really hones in on your message. It forces you to do it. If we had started yesterday and you said, “You should go do a pitch,” I’d be like, “Oh, I’m fine. I can do the pitch.” Then, as you do it, it’s like, “Oh, man, I totally butchered that.”

They force you through this design process of figuring out what the pitch is. That really distills down the message and helps you to simplify. We’re all about simplification. That really gelled with us.

More information about CourseStorm is online: www.coursestorm.com.

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