Tag Archives: innovation-stanford

May. 17.

Launchpad: Design and Launch your Product or Service

[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.]

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

[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.]

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. 06.

The Daily Byte: May 6: Wannabe… Employed?

The Innovation-Stanford community is hosting a happy hour for job seekers to get to know hiring companies.
Some of the companies:

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