News Summary

• Kevin Hartz runs Z Fellows, a one-week accelerator that hands technical founders $10,000 grants.
• The dropout-and-build movement, made most famous by founders like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, is becoming a standard lifestyle choice for a certain kind of ambitious kid.
• Y Combinator recently rolled out a program that’s designed for students who want to start companies but don’t want to drop out.
• The program allows them to apply while still in school, get accepted and funded immediately, and defer their participation in YC until after they graduate.