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Leangap was the best opportunity to figure out what were my strengths and weaknesses. With the summer program I had the opportunity to create and build ideas and put them in action.

I was as skeptical as any other to apply to this relatively newly-established program, but am beyond satisfied with my experience at Leangap this year, and have left confident in my ability to work collaboratively with a team of high-school students to co-found and run a company. In the process, I've developed an invaluable network with entrepreneurs and executives that will set any high-school student up for success. Highly recommend; one of my most productive summers by far.

LeanGap was a great experience that really helped me find, join, and build a startup I'm highly interested in. It's been 2 weeks since the end of the program and the outlook is great, so I'm pleased with both the experience and results from LeanGap. The only consistent issue that I found hindering to our progress was our team's budget. We were a hardware startup and, as expected, we needed quite a bit of funding to get through our prototyping stage. We did receive funding, but it was not quite enough to cover everything. We hoped LeanGap would have a lot of expertise on hardware as well, looking at the previous hardware startups that have come out of LeanGap successfully. Our startup didn't receive all of the technical mentoring necessary on our hardware, meaning we had to make some decisions ourselves. Only after going through many iterations of prototypes, we were able to develop a functional version of the product. My suggestion to LeanGap is to provide hardware startups with the resources necessary to build a functional product.Overall, LeanGap was definitely a positive experience and I don't regret the time, effort, or money spent there. We received entrepreneurship education, advice, a strong network, and, of course, a real startup that we're continuing to work on.