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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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May. 24.

The Daily Byte: Wanna build the perfect pitch?

By TheValleyByte | Posted in DailyBytes, StartupBytes |
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Whether you get funding to continue your project usually rests on how good your pitch is.  So, you owe it to yourself and your idea to make your pitch as awesome as it can be.

 

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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

By TheValleyByte | Posted in EduBytes |
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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. 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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May. 07.

The Daily Byte: Wannabe… a big data guru?

By TheValleyByte | Posted in DailyBytes |
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The GSB Entrepreneur Club is hosting an event to help you find a job at an awesome startup tomorrow.  Three recent alumni will talk about their experiences working at Airbnb, Thumbtack and Evernote.

  • Tuesday, May 8th, 12-1pm, Stanford Knight Management Center, room M109

 

Interested in NoSQL and Big Data?  The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab is hosting a panel discussion tomorrow evening on ‘Scaling the Enterprise into the New Age.’

The event is hosted at the Stanford GSB, but guests must register for the event: http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=439

Panelists will include:

  • James Phillips, director and co-founder of Couchbase
  • Max Schireson, president at 10gen
  • Doug Cutting, chairman of the board of directors at Apache Software Foundation, creator of Hadoop
  • Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database server technologies at Oracle

 

Interested in entrepreneurship in the Philippines?

Panelists Lourdes Montenegro and Jojo Flores will discuss current trends and the outlook for technology entrepreneurship in the Philippines.  Lourdes Montenegro is an assistant professor of Economics at the University of San Carlos and Jojo Flores is the co-founder of operations at the Plug & Play Technology Center.

  • free and open to all, May 8, Stanford Skilling Auditorium, 4:15 p.m.

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