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Jun. 04.

The 10 people you will meet on the Caltrain

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Although Silicon Valley is not known for its public transportation, about 40,000 people on the Peninsula ride the Caltrain to work.  You’d think there’d be all types of people on the train, but really it’s just a bunch of predictable commuters.

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Who are these blokes?

1.  There’s the guy with the chrome messenger bag.  Late in life he decided he’d be cool.

2.  And the impossibly well-put-together Stanford grad who isn’t an engineer but likes startups and working with the guys, and was hired for her grooming and ability to speak in full sentences to the outside world.  Who says a “useless” major isn’t worth something?

3.  Then there’s the European newcomer.  Better dressed than most, he’s knee-deep in CSS on a Macbook Air and jamming out to the latest Euro trance. (more…)

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Jun. 03.

The Creepy Hangers-On

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A recent Quora post discussed the many entrepreneurship groupies and hangers-on at Stanford, and their varying level of respectability (and creepiness).

 

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May. 28.

The Daily Byte: Wannabe… Dropbox CEO?

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This week founder and CEO of Dropbox Drew Houston will be speaking at Stanford as a part of the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series.  From the website: “Drew will likely discuss the beginnings and developments of what is now Dropbox, as well as the many hurdles he faced launching his own company.”
  • Wednesday, May 30, 4:30 p.m. in NVIDIA auditorium at Huang Engineering.  These events are usually free and open to the public.

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May. 17.

Launchpad: Design and Launch your Product or Service

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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.]

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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[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. 16.

The Daily Byte: Wannabe… funded with $150,000?

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Come hear Stanford’s brightest entrepreneurs pitch to VCs next week at the BASES finale. The winner will walk away with $150,000 to implement their great idea.  The event also includes a product showcase and a keynote address by Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capital and COO of Zappos.

 

Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business is hosting an entrepreneurship forum Friday night. Panelists include: Matt Trevithick of Venrock, Randy Williams of Keiretsu Forum and others.

 

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May. 15.

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

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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.]

“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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May. 12.

StartX: The Incubator for Stanford Dreams

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For those talented and visionary entrepreneurs aspiring to launch towards stardom out of Stanford University, StartX provides the rocket fuel.

Providing its services free to all Stanford students (from undergrads to PhDs), StartX offers its participants a network of other innovative founders, experienced mentors and a slate of other educational and business resources.  In the past StartX has paired student founders with Facebook employee number seven Matt Cohler and venture capitalist and former Sun Microsystems CEO Vinod Khosla.

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May. 11.

The Daily Byte: Wannabe… a VC?

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Interested in the history of venture capital education at Stanford?  The GSB Library is hosting a panel.  Speakers include John Glynn, Franklin ‘Pitch’ Johnson, Peter Wendell and Professor Charles Holloway as the moderator.

  • Noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, May 14, Cemex Auditorium, Knight Management Center

 

Stanford’s GSB VC Club is hosing Getting Real: an event with three GSB startups on how they decided to forego a regular pay check and job security to pursue their startups full-time after they graduate.  The entrepreneurs will include: Courtney McColgan of Crowd Jewel, Ivan La Frinere-Sandoval of SolarFirst and Charlie Kubal and Dylan Keil of Chronos.

  • Tuesday May 15, noon – 1 p.m., Knight Management Center M105

 

Like Hackathons?  And Data journalism?   A Stanford Knight Journalism Fellow is hosting a hackathon to analyze campaign finance data and shine light on money flows in politics.  The event is co-sponsored by Knight-Mozilla Open News, The Sunlight Foundation and MongoDB.

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May. 09.

The Daily Byte: May 9

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Tomorrow (May 9) the Stanford GSB will be hosting the presentation “Nuts & Bolts of Entrepreneurship: Building a Startup Dream Team” from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. in room G101 of the Knight Management Center.

The presentation will include stock plans, options, restricted stock, vesting and acceleration, as well as how non-technical hires add value to your startup.

  • Noon May 9 Knight Management Center room G101

 

Charboost is hosting a free hackathon this weekend in SF.  Winning team will get their idea launched with office space, funding, cloud hosting and more.  Details: http://chartboost-hackathon.eventbrite.com/

  • May 11 – 14 in San Francisco

 

Stanford Women in Business board position applications are being accepted until Friday (May 11) at midnight: 2012swibboardapp [at] gmail.com.  Applicants must be Stanford grad students or coterms.

  • App due May 11 11:59 p.m.

 

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