Startup success for Stanford students yields riches — and a return to the dorms

They burned through their $20,000 grant. The pitch rounds to show off their nifty, patented solar device were greeted with polite pity. And a lunch with a rival clued them in to just how far off target they were with their business plan.

So where did a couple of young guys — technically on leave from Stanford University in 2013 but dropouts in the eyes of some family members — turn?

A blank white board.

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