Students Seeking Startup Workshops: Lean Startup Machine Announces Branch Scholarship
Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing.... ? Learn More Lean Startup Machine wants to bring some young blood to its startup workshops — on its own dime. The new initiative is called the Branch Scholarship Program, supposedly because it was inspired by the founders of Branch, a startup that aims “to turn the Internet’s monologues into dialogues” and has backing from The Obvious Corporation. Branch co-founders Josh Miller and Hursh Agrawal both received scholarships from Lean Startup Machine last year, and they met for the first time at the workshop, where they decided to drop out of school and start a company. Moving forward, Lean Startup Machine says it will be of...