Stanford GSB, Stanford University, and Silicon Valley provide exemplary conditions to test and validate ideas in a startup ecosystem. Our entrepreneurship curriculum and programming offer strategic frameworks with hands-on experience to build an idea and a team.
If this is your goal, you might focus on:
- Experiential electives where you can test and iterate ideas
- Big picture and systematic approaches to launch and lead a breakthrough venture
- A safe learning environment to conduct early-market validation that taps a rich network of talent
- Networking with other like-minded entrepreneurs
- Accessing the vast resources from our Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
Stanford GSB allows you to learn from and leverage insights from fellow classmates, guest speakers, and expert faculty. At the end of your program, you will have the knowledge and confidence to build your venture strategically..
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Sample Electives
As in an entrepreneurship MBA or master’s degree in entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurship path offers courses tailored to entrepreneurship.
| Startup Garage: Design |
An intensive, hands-on course utilizing the principles of design thinking, engineering, finance, business, and organizational skills to design and test new business concepts. Collaborative, multidisciplinary teams will identify an unmet customer need, design corresponding products or services, and develop business models to support the creation and launch of a startup. |
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| Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance |
View the financial decision-making process of an entrepreneurial venture from early to late stages while exploring new developments like crowdfunding and liquidity provisions. Varied perspectives, from the CEO to the investor, are discussed so you fully understand the range of incentives involved in the context of negotiations. |
| Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures |
This integrative course structured for future business owners focuses on the point of view of an entrepreneur or manager, rather than the passive investor. It emphasizes high-tech, early-stage, and diverse ventures. |
| Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Partnership for Growth |
Explore the current business landscape and the importance of the partnership between investors and entrepreneurs. Students connect with members of the entrepreneur and venture capital communities while investigating the rapid evolution of the investor sector, how investors differentiate in an “entrepreneur’s market,” and how investors work with entrepreneurs post-investment. |
