Stanford University’s newest online course examines the best practices of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and venture capitalists while allowing participants to try out their own start-up ideas. Called “Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Mindset,” the course is open to entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs anywhere in the world and features lectures, videos and exercises covering the transfer of technology ideas to market, how to develop a business model, how to develop talent and capital resources and more.
Taught by Tom Byers, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Stanford School of Engineering and a founding faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the course is the tenth in a series of classes offered as part of the online Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate. Participants may enroll in just a single course or earn the professional certificate from Stanford by completing any eight of 12 courses. Registration is open for all of the first 10 courses, and tuition is $995 per course.
To get a sense of this newest online course, prospective participants are invited to watch a free webinar video, The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship. Guest speakers in the course include Chi-Hua Chien, an investor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers who was named one of the Top VCs Under 35 by VC Journal.
More new courses will be introduced throughout 2014, including Innovating Through Value Chains and an innovation strategy course.
