[Cse-jobs] Fwd: StartX Visiting Founders Program

[Jeremy Buhler]

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Subject: 	StartX Visiting Founders Program
Date: 	Wed, 2 May 2012 15:13:39 -0700
From: 	Greg Greiner <ggreiner at sse.stanford.edu>
To: 	jbuhler at wustl.edu



Hello Professor Buhler,


I am writing on behalf of StartX, the Stanford Student Startup
Accelerator, to inform you of our new Visiting Founders Program and to
ask you to forward this information to any students you believe would be
interested.


StartX is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the
development of top founders through experiential education. Over the
past 6 sessions, over 1,500 students representing well over 400
companies have applied for our program, with an acceptance rate of about
10%. Through our rigorous program, more than 85% of our companies get
funded within the session term, and 80% of them are still growing.


Though StartX shares a close and mutually beneficial relationship with
Stanford University, our goals reach far beyond the bounds of Silicon
Valley. We are, first and foremost, an educational institution for
entrepreneurs, and we do not believe that the information we create or
source should be a scarce resource. To disseminate the information to a
broader audience and to help student-entrepreneurs on a larger scale, We
would like to cooperate with your organization and have top founders
from the University of Washingtonto come to Silicon Valley for a
three-month session. We believe this is a win-win situation in that
student entrepreneurs from your university could draw on resources
provided by Stanford and the Silicon Valley, and in the meantime promote
mutual learning and communication between students from our two
universities.


We're very excited to start inviting top teams from the University of
Washington to join us here at StartX for our summer program. For more
information, please check our website here
<http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Washington&utm_campaign=Visiting%2BFounders>. 

I would like to ask you to distribute the materials below to the
students you believe would be interested. We would really appreciate
your help in spreading the word about this resource for entrepreneurs.
If there's any more information we can provide, please let me know.


Best regards,


-Greg Greiner


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*Serious about your Startup?*

*Spend your Summer with the Top Founder Community in Silicon Valley*

*Apply Now for our
<http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Washington&utm_campaign=Visiting%2BFounders><http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders>*

*Visiting Founder Program
<http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Washington&utm_campaign=Visiting%2BFounders><http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders>*

*<http://startx.stanford.edu/visiting_founders>

StartX is the Stanford student start-up accelerator. Our mission is to
accelerate the development of the highest-potential founders across the
country through experiential education.

Our program provides:

   * Community: A close-knit peer community of the best Stanford
     entrepreneurs who learn from, motivate, and support one another
   * Alumni Network:A diverse community of 150+ high quality StartX
     alumni founders in all industries and from all backgrounds
   * Mentorship: Top tier mentorship from serial entrepreneurs & investors
   * Training:Access to training from relevant experts in any industry to
     guide you in every aspect of starting a company
   * Resources:office space, housing, free legal, up to $20K free cloud
     computing, accounting, and more
   * Access to Capital:Connections to every top investment firm and angel
     group, as well as a large number of individual angel investors


We take 0%equity and charge nothing.


In order to be eligible to apply, at least one founder of the company
must have been enrolled as a student, post doc, or professor, from your
university within the last two academic years of the application period.


We accept founders in allindustries and from everybackground. This
includes biotech, clean tech, clean energy, hardware, medical devices,
non-profits, music, finance, IT, etc.  Historically, our founders have
been ~40% PhD students, ~30% Undergraduates, ~25% masters and ~5%
professors across all departments and disciplines.  Additionally, over
one quarter of our founders have been women.


Check out recent press mentions of StartX inBusiness Insider
<http://www.businessinsider.com/this-is-why-youll-be-jealous-you-didnt-go-to-stanford-inside-startx-2012-1>,TechCrunch 

<http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/10/startx-demo-day-a-direct-link-between-silicon-valley-and-top-stanford-student-entrepreneurs/>,Women 

2.0
<http://www.women2.org/accelerating-diversity-in-startups-with-startx-bridging-the-divide/>, 

andForbes
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/06/02/startx-launches-the-best-of-stanford-startups/>.

Read articles about many of our companies:Bell Bio
<http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/innovation/magnetic-tag-replicates-when-cells-divide>,Black 

Swan Solar
<http://www.inc.com/coolest-college-start-ups-2011/black-swan-solar.html>,Game 

Closure
<http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/24/game-closure-turns-down-facebook-zynga-to-raise-12m-for-html5-mobile-gaming/>,Carbon 

Lighthouse <http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/carbon-lighthouse>,Lark
<http://uncrunched.com/2011/12/14/hate-your-jawbone-up-trade-it-in-for-a-free-lark-vibrating-alarm/>, 

andQwhisper
<http://allthingsd.com/20110916/qwhisper-is-looking-to-solve-social-search-with-a-dose-of-uber-geek/>.


Here's how to apply.
<http://startx.stanford.edu/node/1479?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Washington&utm_campaign=Visiting%2BFounders><http://startx.stanford.edu/node/1479>


<http://startx.stanford.edu/node/1479?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=MIT&utm_campaign=Visiting%2BFounders>Are 

any of your friends founding companies? Make sure to forward them this
email!

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