Former Google Executive Dave Girouard Launches Crowdfunding Service Upstart, Raises $1.75M
Dave Girouard, the former president of Google Enterprise, has struck out on his own with a new startup called Upstart, which offers crowdfunding and mentorship tools to help college graduates pursue, in his words, “a more entrepreneurial path.” Girouard argues that there’s currently a “misallocation of capital in our economy” — the fact that large companies spend lots of money to recruit college graduates, yet given their lack of traditional credit history, the graduates themselves “couldn’t raise $30,000 if their life depended on it.” Usually, of course, their life doesn’t...
Published By: Tech Crunch - Wednesday, 8 August, 2012
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