Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Stanford Center for Professional Development
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- online
- on demand
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About the course
What are the key ingredients that drive success in entrepreneurial companies? How do entrepreneurs capitalize on new ideas and bring them to market? In this course, you will gain valuable insight into how entrepreneurs start companies and probe the unique mindset that often accompanies a successful venture. Through engaging lectures and hands-on projects, you will discover the best practices of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and get to test and implement your own startup ideas.
Learn how to
- Successfully position and sell your idea
- Learn the primary reasons and benefits to creating a business plan and the key risks—technology, market, team and financial.
- Think like a technology entrepreneur
- Learn about the value of “staged financing” for both entrepreneurs and venture capitalists along with some essential formulas and information regarding venture finance.
- Transfer technology ideas to market
- Create and grow high-potential ventures using several strategy and entrepreneurship frameworks, including the concepts of disruptive innovations, business model canvas and lean startups.
- Use the fundamentals of resource development, including talent and capital
- Examine critical human resource issues for new ventures and the key actions that a founder or CEO should manage.
Final Exam
Online participants are asked to complete a final exam at the end of each course to maintain the integrity of the program. A score of 85% must be achieved to successfully pass the exam. A digital record of completion will be emailed to participants when they pass the exam.
Course Evaluation
It is required that participants complete the course evaluation once they have passed the final exam.
Experts
Tom Byers
At Stanford University since 1995, Professor Tom Byers focuses on education regarding high-growth entrepreneurship and technology innovation. He is the first holder of the Entrepreneurship Professorship endowed chair in the School of Engineering, and is also a Bass University Fellow in Undergradu...
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