Summary
Dave Girouard, the former president of Google Enterprise, has struck out on his own with a new startup called Upstart, which offers crowdfunding and mentorship tools to help college graduates pursue, in his words, “a more entrepreneurial path.”
Description
With Upstart, people can raise personal funding (the company’s website declares, “The startup is you“) in exchange for a share of their future earnings. After they sign up, students create a profile with their achievements and goals, verify their academic credentials, then identify how much money they want to raise. With that data, Upstart calculates how much of their income they’ll need to share with investors in order to raise that funding.
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Posted by Benjamin Fossel