If you are paying 30K a year for business school tuition, please get Dom a $3 coffee because you can get much more learning, growth, and connections at RippleX.
The Ripple Fellowship was extremely helpful in understanding the basics of VC. The small cohort size was conducive to forming new relationships with other fellows. The individual and group projects asked us to practically apply what we learned by talking to founders and writing deal memos. Highly recommend!
Being apart of the cohort was a fantastic experience! Not only was it great to learn from Dom but the opportunity to meet so many amazing students from Canada and the US was awesome too. Truly a valuable network!
When I started at the RippleX Fellowship, I knew nobody. Twelve weeks later, I have a community of friends and a network of mentors that I will have throughout my career. Whether you're an aspiring VC or operator, the program connects people with a passion for innovation and a vision for high-growth opportunities. In the classroom, learning is often limited to lectures and a casebook. At Ripple, my learning came from personal conversations with real VCs, receiving advice from established founders and sharing ideas with other fellows. This group supported me throughout my time in the fellowship, and I look forward to supporting future fellows in any way I can.
I loved how flexible the program is - on top of providing a topic of discussion every week, Dom is always willing to answer questions beyond the material and introduce us to new, complex concepts.
Being relatively new to the VC space, the RippleX Fellowship allowed me to form strong bonds with a tight-knit group of aspiring entrepreneurs and VCs just like me. The fellowship meetings and motivating guest speakers were amazing jumping-off points for me to network, bounce startup ideas around, gain insight into emerging industries that my peers are passionate about, and get inspired to think about venture daily. The interactive deep dives, especially on startup financials, were extremely helpful for me to learn as I never would have been able to get that out of an undergrad class!
The RippleX fellowship gave me an incredible inside view into what makes a great investor, fund operator, and early startup employee. Through working on interesting projects, learning from other fellows, and asking Dom many questions, I've had tons of fun building lasting relationships in the tech/VC space. The fellowship has also given me the opportunity to source deals for Ripple Ventures as an intern and given the confidence I needed to build my own student-led VC fund at Babson College.
Ripple was unlike any other venture fellowship. They emphasized hands-on learning more than anything else, and every lesson was so practical in a real world setting. I was able to gain 10 amazing friends from across the continent, and I finally made the leap from funder to founder with the support of Ripple and my peer cohort!
