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As a graduate student, many career options lie in front of you. One potential route is founding a startup based on the innovative research conducted in your lab. Beginning a startup company is complex and challenging. While there are now many programs to assist academics in their startup endeavors, some aspects you learn as you build the venture. Come hear from two successful startup CEOs who founded startups as graduate students. They will discuss their journeys:

1.) Making the switch from academia to a new venture
2.) Fundraising
3.) Building their teams
4.) Challenges both expected and unforeseen
5.) The ultimate exits made by their first startups
 

Dr. Shelley Force Aldred founded her first startup as a graduate student at Stanford University and now is on her third new venture. Dr. Laura Schewel founded her first startup, StreetLight Data, while a graduate student at Berkeley. More information on both of them is below.

We welcome your questions, both ahead of time (submitted during the registration process) and during the webinar itself.