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Calling All Student Entrepreneurs: Highland Capital Wants You

• Raphael 18y ago
  This sounds like a great opportunity. It would seem ideal to have a 2-person team, since there would be no monetary hit and you could have a friend with you.
  • ABrandt 18y ago
    I agree this is a great opportunity worth looking at, but having a friend with you? Using investment dollars to fund your buddy's summer on your couch seems a little unwise to me.
    • sachinag 18y ago
      That's the beauty - it's a grant, not an investment, so you won't be diluted. That said, multiple founders solve a lot of issues.
    • Raphael 18y ago
      Well, I meant someone competent that you would ideally be on friendly terms with.
• skyfaller 18y ago
  So how are Menlo Park, CA and Lexington, MA as locations? I know that Paul Graham places great weight on the location of your startup, and each of these Y Combinator competitors requires you to move to a different town. Should that be a significant factor in applying to Y Combinator instead of Summer@Highland and programs like it?
  • menloparkbum 18y ago
    Menlo Park is literally next door to Palo Alto. It's one of the nicer Silicon Valley suburbs.
    • RyanGWU82 18y ago
      Lexington is also right next to Cambridge, MA. These locations are totally equivalent to their Y Combinator counterparts.
• rms 18y ago
  Lightspeed runs an almost identical program with slightly higher dollar amounts: http://www.lightspeedvp.com/summergrants.aspx http://www.lightspeedvp.com/summergrants.aspx Has anyone actually done one of these?
  • skyfaller 18y ago
    One minor but significant difference between these two programs is that Lightspeed requires that you have an engineering student on your team, while Summer@Highland will accept any student. If I am a law student and my hacker co-founders are not students, then my team can apply for Summer@Highland but not Lightspeed. I wonder why Lightspeed has that additional requirement.