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To be eligible to apply for the Student-in-Residence program, you must be a current Stanford student/post-doc and must be a co-founder of the company with a significant equity stake. Your application must include all co-founders of the company, even those who are not active students at this time.

We recommend attending the program in person to take advantage of being around peers in the same batch, alumni, and mentors in the community.

We also offer a virtual option with only 4 in-person required days at the beginning and the end of the program for non-local founders.

It is not a requirement of the StartX community that you are geographically located in the area while in the program. There are only a couple of session-mandatory events that will usually take place in our office in Palo Alto, and the rest of the program (such as workshops or office hours) is opt-in.

Many of our founders are not located in the Bay Area. This is because StartX is a community without deadlines or a prescriptive program.

We aim to provide you, as a founder, with three things:

1. The knowledge that you can trust everyone you engage with at StartX to act in your best interest.
2. People who have done specific things that you are trying to do multiple times and are willing to help you.
3. A concentrated group of high-quality peers.

Here are a few examples of programming we built to deliver these results without requiring you to travel:

• Continual access to highly trusted mentors
• Curated learning resources
• Opportunities to discuss pressing questions with other founders via email lists
• Investor Demo Day

StartX takes zero fees, zero equity, and operates on a give-back basis. You can give back time, expertise, cash and equity. Because StartX is a nonprofit organization, donating has tax advantages.

If StartX provided something meaningful for you, please consider doing the same for future generations of founders! If our mission matters, please consider donating so we can remain a strong and founder-first community.

By becoming a mentor, running a workshop or hosting office hours! We have several mentorship programs you can learn more about here.

Cash fuels our development, grants for student founders, and our events. You can learn more and directly donate equity for our current campaign by going on our platform here.