Episode 17
How To Raise and Manage Venture Capital for Student Founders ($4M+ Invested) - w/ Prateek
In this episode my guest is Prateek Behera. Prateek is a co-founder at gradCapital, which provides funding for college students in india whose projects can change the world.
Who this is for
- You are building something real and need the unpolished version before the launch post.
- You would rather hear Prateek's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Raise and Manage Venture Capital for Student Founders ($4M+ Invested) - w/ Prateek
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so one of those companies turned out to be successful and then you know where zto right now you picked five of them and then you referred them to why combinator we don't encourage people
combinator we don't encourage people there but we do realize that some people better without College the vast majority of Americans do not have master's degree you're good at running your compet he
you're good at running your compet he but that doesn't mean you might be good at running any other company he's 16 and he's building a hardware drone competing against large multi-billion dollar
against large multi-billion dollar companies in the world like hey I'm cool give me money what was it that they think of the idea of you know backing student founders ambitious smart people
student founders ambitious smart people locked together in like not locked but like in one place they push each other more than we can push them I had so many ideas in college I never acted on a
Show notes
In this episode my guest is Prateek Behera. Prateek is a co-founder at gradCapital, which provides funding for college students in india whose projects can change the world. If you’re a student and have an idea you’re building towards, gradCapital will invest $40k for 4% in you. We discuss: -How Prateek and his co-founder started gradCapital.
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