Bay Area Application Deadline on Wednesday, Dec 2nd

After graduating an incredible Summer Bay Area Semester that launched 54 companies, we are excited to kick off a new semester this Winter. We've already lined up an impressive list of Mentors to guide you, including;

Trip Adler, CEO of Scribd
Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint.com
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote
Kirill Makharinsky, Co-Founder of YouNoodle
Adeo Ressi, Founder Member of TheFunded.com and creator of The Founder Institute
Joe Betts-LaCroix, Founder of OQO
Will Bunker, Co-Founder of the online dating service that became Match.com
Brahm Cohen, Inventor & Chief Scientist of BitTorrent
David Higley, Managing Partner of Bond Lane Partners
Jay Jamison, Founder & President of Moonshoot
Eugene Lee, CEO of Socialtext
Bryan Thatcher, CEO of Empressr
Peter Pham, CEO of BillShrink
G.D. (Ram) Ramkumar, Chief Architect for Visual Search at A9.com
Alain Raynaud, CEO of FairSoftware
Bubba Mararka, Business Development at Facebook
...and more to be announced.

Bay Area Entrepreneurs - get in your applications today at http://www.founderinstitute.com/apply/7. The final deadline is 11:59pm PST on Wednesday, December 2nd.

Good luck!

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