Offered by Angela C.

Joined August 2024

Stanford Startup Instructor | 1st-Time Founder Specialist | Funding, GTM

I teach entrepreneurship at Stanford across for-credit courses and immersive programs for adults and high school students spanning 6 continents. My students have gone on to raise funding, gain admissions to top accelerators, launch products, and build ventures that scale. I bring that same rigor, framework, and insider access to my 1:1 coaching. As the founder of Stanford's Education Entrepreneurship Hub (edupreneurship.stanford.edu), I've built one of the most active founder ecosystems at Stanford - connecting for-profit and nonprofit education entrepreneurs with the mentors, resources, and community they need to move from idea to impact. I also invested as an angel , which means I've reviewed hundreds of pitches and know exactly what makes investors say yes - and no. I've lived the founder journey myself. I bootstrapped a future-of-work SaaS product that scaled to users in over 80 countries, entirely with no-code tools and no outside funding. No dev team. No technical co-founder. Just relentless customer discovery, sharp positioning, and the right tools at the right time. Now I'm building my second venture the same way, so everything I teach, I'm actively doing. What makes my coaching different: I give you the frameworks Stanford founders learn, applied to your specific stage, market, and constraints - not a generic playbook. Most of my clients are first-time founders who've never had access to this level of coaching. That's exactly who I'm here for. I also bring a perspective most startup coaches don't: I understand what's possible for non-technical founders right now. AI has changed the game. You can build, test, and scale things today that would have required a dev team two years ago. I'll show you how. Who I work with: 💡 Idea-stage founders trying to figure out if their idea has legs before they quit their job or spend their savings: customer discovery, problem validation, and the hard questions you should be asking before you build anything 🚀 Early-stage founders (pre-seed to seed) building toward their first customers and first check: MVP scoping, go-to-market strategy, pitch narrative, and fundraising mechanics 🤖 Founders building AI-native products: how to position in a crowded AI market, where your moat actually comes from, and what investors are looking for beyond "we use LLMs" 🏗️ Non-technical founders who want to build faster without hiring: the exact no-code and AI stack I use to move from idea to working product without a single line of code Recent wins: Founders accepted into Y Combinator, NEO, and Techstars accelerator programs, pre-seed rounds closed with sharper narratives, product pivots that unlocked new markets, non-technical founders shipping MVPs in weeks across various industries: AI SaaS, Consumer, EdTech, HealthTech, and more