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Stanford Ignite – Full-Time

Acquire the business fundamentals and the hands-on experience needed to turn your ideas into ventures in a four-week, full-time program.

Key Benefits

Stanford Ignite – Full Time is a certificate program that provides the business fundamentals to succeed at any entrepreneurial ventures.
  • Learn business concepts that span core business skills and also tactical functional skills.
  • Reinforce lessons learned through practical application with team venture projects, where participants work in teams of five or six to develop a new product or service for an existing organization or a new venture.
  • Learn to successfully present your ideas during a daylong communications bootcamp, where you’ll develop your brief elevator pitch.
  • Test your idea at the culmination of the program during final presentations to a panel of venture capitalists, angel investors, industry experts, and experienced entrepreneurs.

Who Should Attend

  • Professionals with a bachelor’s degree and some professional experience (an advanced degree is preferred)
  • Graduate students currently pursuing a master’s, MD, PhD, or post-doc program in a nonbusiness field
  • Those with formal graduate business training (e.g., MBA) or extensive managerial experience to be reviewed on case-by-case basis

2021 Program Dates - TBD

Format

In-person|Stanford GSB
Full-time

Application Requirements

Deadline

Application is not yet available

Program Fee

US $14,950

Stanford Grad Students & Postdocs

The rate for currently enrolled Stanford graduate students (master’s, PhD, JD, MD) and postdoctoral scholars is:

US $500

Stanford alumni and staff are not eligible to receive the current student rate. Graduated students who were enrolled in the immediate quarter prior to the program start date remain eligible.

The cost of attendance includes course materials, program events, and some meals.

Awarded

Stanford GSB certificate
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, In-Person (Stanford)

Contact

Kelsey Carlson

Kelsey Carlson

Assistant Director, Ignite Programs
Executive Education
+1 (650) 723-3341
Email
Ignite full-time participants

Learn More About the Program

Curriculum

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Application Requirements

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Participant Profile

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Faculty Leadership

Yossi Feinberg
Yossi Feinberg
The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Economics
  • Director, Driving Innovation and New Ventures in Established Organizations
  • Director, Stanford Ignite – Full-Time
  • Director, Stanford Ignite – Part-Time
  • Director, Stanford Ignite – Post-9/11 Veterans
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Consistent with its non-discrimination policy, Stanford’s programs are open to participants regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.