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Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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Re: Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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Seems to me like most wealthy parents don't want their kids to drop out of college lol

That's interesting actually. Wealthy parents mean that their kids are more likely to be able to do risky things like doing startups, and their connections allow the kids to get funding that is otherwise unavailable. And so there's a real temptation for the kids to do something risky, as they know they can get bailed out if they fail too hard. So the question then: How to keep them in school? A degree provides its own…

Who on Earth told you there's an epidemic of rich kids dropping out of school in the first place?

OP notwithstanding, congrats saas_man. But yeah, most rich people would stick it out to get the bachelor's unless their startup was doing really well.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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In NYC, there ought to be at least one meetup group for startup founders?! I would have a look on https://www.meetup.com/ BTW, did you consider applying to YC? You don’t have to move permanently to SF to join.

PS. Consider listing your contact details in your profile. Otherwise there’s no way to reach you outside of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969

Re: Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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In NYC, there ought to be at least one meetup group for startup founders?! I would have a look on https://www.meetup.com/ BTW, did you consider applying to YC? You don’t have to move permanently to SF to join.

I definitely go to meetups for programmers and entrepreneurs but everyone there is 30+. Which is fine but I want to be around people my age too

I considered YC but I ended up not needing funding and just bootstrapped it

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In NYC, there ought to be at least one meetup group for startup founders?! I would have a look on https://www.meetup.com/ BTW, did you consider applying to YC? You don’t have to move permanently to SF to join.

PS. Consider listing your contact details in your profile. Otherwise there’s no way to reach you outside of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28012969

Done.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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I meant more like people who dropped out for their startups

If you find people in the last year of college, perhaps at least some of them will go on to launch a startup…?

Hoping for that. I mostly hang around NYU kids and everything there is very internship-based. Maybe I should've met more people at Stanford haha

Re: Ask HN: Where to find founders in their early 20s?

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You're on a rare vector, no doubt about it. It'll be tough. You can try milling about various startup accelerators, I guess. You might find a few who did what you did, and they tend to have a younger crowd.

Not a bad idea. I'm bootstrapped so that makes it a little harder considering those places are mostly interested in equity but a couple introductions wouldn't hurt
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