friends and family

We've been hearing this over and over in our conversations with friends:

• Where are all the other founders? What are they working on?
• How can I meet and work with other ambitious students actually working on projects?
• I wish someone taught me how to raise the right way before I learned the hard way. How can I share the hard lessons I learned so someone else doesn't make the same mistakes?
• Who should we hire for our startup from Stanford?

We realized no one on campus gives good answers to these questions. Clubs bring in founders for talks. Venture capitalists come in to profit from and take founders away. Classes and accelerators teach new founders the basics. friends and family was started as an answer to these questions.

how do we make things better?

friends and family is a home for founders and students interested in startups. We answer the questions above:

• We aggregate student projects and startups on our tool called: huntproduct
• We connect you with other Stanford founders at your stage and founders ahead of you for mentorship and friendship
• We connect you to student founder vetted and reviewed resources and people (VCs, lawyers, designers, mentors, etc)
• We host weekly project and hackathon sessions for coworking with other founders and meeting new teammates
• We curate student startup job opportunities and candidates

We are also launching a community venture fund with 0 management fees to align the incentives for community members to help each other. Only Stanford students can put money into the fund which gets invested into startups and projects within the community. This is why we chose the name "friends and family" for the community. It references a friends and family round where founders fundraise from people they are close with. We believe this fund will incentivize students to help each other's projects and startups succeed.

who is in?

Early members include:

• Michelle Schwartzman (Harbor, Contrary)
• Elvis Zhang (Oxy2)
• Justin Lewis-Weber (Assured)
• Ethan Horoschak (Simplify)
• David Song (Dystopia, SVM)
• Andy Hwang (Dystopia, Simplify)

how can I join?

If you answer yes to any of these questions:

• are you working on a startup or project?
• are you looking for teammates to work with?
• are you a student looking to invest in and help your friends succeed?
• do you know what wagmi means?

and if you answer no to all of these questions:

• are you a snake?
• do you work on sandhill road?
• are you old?

then we'd love to have you join us.