<aside> ❗ Here is our 2023 cohort!
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What is the Recruitment Timeline?
<aside> 🕧 FEB 22: Pear VC Pitches RSVP here
FEB 21 - MAR 1: Applications Open
FEB 25: Virtual ****Info Session @ 3-4PM RSVP here
MAR 1: Applications Close @ 11:59PM
MAR 8: Selections Released
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What is ASES Breakthrough?
<aside> 🌲 ASES Breakthrough is Stanford’s premiere, stand-alone Venture Capital education program.
We aim to educate the next generation of aspiring venture capitalists, founders and entrepreneurs, by helping students identify, evaluate and capitalize on opportunities.
See details of the curriculum here
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Which VC firms are participating?
<aside> 🕴🏻 Contrary Capital, Renegade Capital, Pear VC, Redpoint Ventures, Neo, Audacious Ventures, Floodgate Ventures, Reach Capital, Golden Gate Ventures, Prefix Capital, HOF Capital, Think+, Audacious Ventures, and more.
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How will you learn?
<aside> 📖 See details of the curriculum here
Throughout the 10-week program, you will work closely (in a team of 6) with an experienced VC from one of our partner firms. You will be a campus scout for your assigned firm.
ASES Breakthrough is split into 5 main sections (2-weeks each):
For each section, you will get to…
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Who is this program for?
<aside> 👥 We take in undergraduate, post-grad, master’s, and PhD students — the only requirement is that you are studying at Stanford!
While explicitly, we teach you how to think like a venture capitalist; more broadly, we teach you how to **evaluate opportunities.
What problems are people currently solving? How do you know if a problem is worth solving? How do you build hypotheses and a model of the world around you?**
We believe this is an extremely value and important skill to have as an aspiring venture capitalist, founder, and entrepreneur.
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