Housel: College programs fail founders while student-focused VCs just poach deals
Bobby Housel · Stanford Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $3500 Prize Money (#449) · Apr 29, 2023 · at 1:04:46
Bobby Housel, student founder building a collegiate startup syndicate, discusses how universities and VC funds approach student entrepreneurship.
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“We think that the way that college entrepreneurship is fostered by institutes, centers, clubs at schools is bad. We think that the VC funds that are targeting college entrepreneurs are just looking for poached deal flow. We have a better way of doing it by building the best communities and then intelligently bringing in dope angels like you guys to make them a lot more interesting.”
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