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Re:MIT Sandbox invites 11,000 students to innovate by gwintrob on Thursday April 07, 2016 @04:13PM (#11450271)
I'm an MIT grad (Course 6 2012) and respectfully disagree. College is a great place to start working on a startup and meet potential co-founders. PG has written about this before: http://paulgraham.com/mit.html

Also, regarding the pledge: "This pledge to give back is a personal choice and not binding and funding will not be conditional on a student signing a pledge." (https://sandbox.mit.edu/apply-3/) It sounds like a pretty reasonable program.

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Re:MIT Sandbox invites 11,000 students to innovate by petra on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:26PM (#11451193)
College may be a great place to work on a web startup, since they require less in-depth expertise than an engineering startup, and it's easier to complete missing knowledge through advisors.

But an engineering startup ? definitely not.

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