Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta , two Stanford grads who signed up for the Launch Pad class at the University's Institute of Design (aka d.school ), could have hardly chosen a better path to try their hands at startup life . The pair has gone from idea to a (very cool) digital news app for the iPad in just 5 weeks, and they're just getting started. The application, called Pulse , is essentially a visually attractive RSS-based news aggregator. On sale for $3.99 ( iTunes link ), the app is aimed to please both hardcore RSS reader users and people who are willing to pay top dollars for single publication apps.