First Ph.D. Then Startup
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German universities fund salaried PhD positions around €50k salary that let students develop real open source products under a supervising researcher, use a design science research workflow to produce a dissertation and deploy working software, then spin that code into a company. Public grants can fund teams of 3–5 for 1–1.5 years and even support growth toward Series A, letting founders keep equity while turning university code into a commercial product.
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