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Hi there – I've heard about many overseas engineering firms that are great at building MVPs for startups. What are the best ways to go about finding and evaluating one for a new st…

The school actually does highlight John Bardeen and Nick Holonyak a ton! John Bardeen was the first person mentioned on my tour of the college of engineering and Nick Holonyak gave…

Max Levchin and many of the other members of the Mafia (Luke Nosek, Jeremy Stoppelman, etc.) are mentioned in the post. They are also not forgotten on campus. Max was on campus las…

I think a balance is needed. A lot of my friends in CS graduating after 4 years of college (at a number of schools including at UIUC) feel less confident going into the industry th…

Absolutely, I wasn't trying to say that the University helped start these ventures. From what I see there hasn't been a lot of support for student entrepreneurs on campus historica…

Author here. I guess I didn't really think of it in terms of starting at a specific time, I was just looking at the past. I focus mainly on tech entrepreneurship so I'd say maybe m…

Author of the original post here. To start of I'd just like to clarify that I'm a student at the University and have no ties to any of the administration. The goal of the post was …

Author here. As I mentioned previously, I'm just a student and have no ties to any administration so I'm just speaking from my experience. UIUC suing (or almost suing?) Andreessen …

Agreed that Urbana-Champaign might not be the best place to start a company but that doesn't mean students can't start ventures while on campus and then move them elsewhere after g…

Wouldn't pay a dollar, since most of the communities I use Reddit for are now also active on Facebook + Slack.