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May. 28.

Stanford Course EE46: Engineering for Good

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[The editor sez: this week, we're writing about classes at Stanford that deal with entrepreneurship in one way or another. If you're new to TVB, check out our previous series about where the tech elite eat, and some of the most important accelerators and incubators to watch.]

The Stanford engineers in EE46 are hard at work creating the next big thing. However, unlike those in many other Stanford entrepreneurship simulating classes, the students of EE46 aren’t creating iPhone apps or other cash cows; they are trying to save the world.  (more…)

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May. 23.

E145 Technology Entrepreneurship: Explore the Life of an Entrepreneur

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Want to get a taste of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship? This class allows Stanford students of all majors, to explore tech entrepreneurship by studying case studies and designing their own startup.

Tom Byers (Symantec) and Steve Blank (serial entrepreneur) lecture on turning an idea into an opportunity and the basic financial literacy expected of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. But the real the crux of this class is its famous group project. (more…)

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May. 22.

Digital Media Entrepreneurship: where students create news sites, apps, paywalls and more

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Recommended on Quora as one of the *must* take classes at Stanford.

COMM 140 – Digital Media Entrepreneurship – throws you into a project group with programmers, MBAs and journalists.  Each group takes a digital media product from zero to launch in 10 weeks.  Groups do user-testing, prototype a product, write a business plan and pitch to investors. (more…)

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May. 17.

Launchpad: Design and Launch your Product or Service

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This spring quarter class at Stanford’s celebrated d.school focuses on product design and development. Open to just grad students (no exceptions), the course covers imagining, prototyping, testing and iterating, building, pricing, marketing, distributing and selling your team’s product or service. Students apply as intact teams with an idea. More details on the course here.

The course gets rave reviews from its students, for example:

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May. 16.

S356: The GSB’s startup class

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Haim Mendelson, the GSB’s “Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management” teaches this staple elective over the fall and winter quarters at the Stanford GSB. GSB’ers join other Stanford graduate students to form teams, conduct field work and iterate on the combination of business model — product — market. Teams then present to a panel of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and faculty. The class covers the new venture formation process including:

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May. 15.

A weird twist on entrepreneurship at Stanford’s d.school

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“To simplify the search [for the next great companies],” Peter Thiel says, ” I suggest you look within a five-mile radius of Stanford.” But you may not even need to look that broadly.

Stanford University, as a recent New Yorker article so emphatically pointed out, is deep into the woods of startups and entrepreneurship. The school has a plethora of paths for getting your idea off the ground while also getting course credit (including a class taught by Stanford alum Thiel himself).

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