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Hey Hacker News! I'm Mark Davis...the product hacker at Fullstack Academy, and the guy behind Fullstack Fund.

We're really psyched to start investing in our graduates, so they can create their own startups and make a dent in the universe.

AMA!

"Smart people should build things"

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What's your opinion on investing in your new graduates immediately rather than letting them get some "real world" experience?

Hi Mark! Fullstack seems to be focusing on MEAN stack, is there a requirement for the startups to be based on that technology or do projects using e.g. Golang have a chance as well?

Intrigued to see where this goes. It would be great if you could post status of the companies funded every 6 months or so.

That's a cool idea.

We're big on transparency...e.g. soon we'll be publishing aggregate data about the outcomes for our students. We could apply the same approach to the startups that we fund.

Thanks for a great suggestion...we'll do that!

Is this funding for new grads or for experienced grads?

It's for both. Anyone who graduated from Fullstack or Grace Hopper Academy (our tuition-deferred, all-female school) can apply.

Each startup has to have at least one Fullstack/Grace Hopper grad on their founding team.

We're also opening it up to alumni from Starter League in Chicago (which we acquired earlier this year) and our YC partner school, the Recurse Center.

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