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Rough draft ventures
Rough draft ventures











While the majority of millennials have under $1k in their bankĪccounts, their choosing to spend it on experiences rather thanĢWith roughly 70% of graduates leaving college with student debt, Stripe AtlasSnapchat AccelerateHubSpot for StartupsĪt the same time, venture firms are creating new To student-led startups, enabling students to Students are turning their class projects into a scalable business. We'reĭetermined to help student founders set up and jumpstart their business "The entrepreneurial spirit is only increasing at the university level, where Jonathan Gottfried, Co-founder, Major League Zuckerberg or Marissa Mayer are at an MLH event "More than 65,000 students come to 250+ Major Students have fostered hundreds of entrepreneurial Akshay Goradia, Co-founder & President, Inspire students to start companies in spaces On a wide variety of industries, we hope to 2x as many freshman want to be an entrepreneur *īusiness. 29% increase in engineering degrees in past 10 years

rough draft ventures

46% increase in CS/information science degrees 300+ entrepreneurship classes and programs This led to the rise of a new culture: the hacker The State of Student Startups - Rough Draft VenturesĬomputer science has always had deep roots RDV is supporting and connecting the largest network of student entrepreneurs. Rough Draft Ventures is General Catalyst's student-focused program that backs founders at the university level. The State of Student Startups shares our take on the major players that make this ecosystem what it is today - from professors to program managers, student leaders to service providers - and the factors that are that are fueling the next generation of founders. Thus a flourishing ecosystem was built to support a new generation of founders: the student founder. Over the past 20 years, dozens of university-born founders have emerged, disrupting an incumbent industry, or creating a new one of their own. These founders set an example for what the university ecosystem can breed given the density of talent, diversity of opinions from academic leaders, greater willingness for students to take risks, and fewer preconceived notions from a role or company. This spawned a new type of entrepreneur embodied by role models such as Michael Dell, Steve Jobs and Larry Page.

rough draft ventures

By the 20th century, accelerating technological innovation rooted within universities gave rise to a new culture, the hacker culture. Entrepreneurship has always been celebrated in our culture - from early innovators such as Christopher Columbus to Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers to Henry Ford.













Rough draft ventures