Overview

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program Entrepreneurship corner is a free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning.The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship education and research center located within the School of Engineering at Stanford University. The center is hosted by the department of Management Science and Engineering. The purpose of the center is to accelerate high-technology entrepreneurship research and education for engineers and scientists worldwide. STVP supports academic research on high-technology entrepreneurship and teaches a wide range of courses to science and engineering students on campus. Outreach programs include annual conferences, campus-wide collaboration, and dissemination of teaching content through the Entrepreneurship Corner website.

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists, engineers, managers, and others.

The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to scientists and engineers. The design of the archive is based on feedback from entrepreneurship educators regarding the challenges faced when teaching entrepreneurship to students of all majors and disciplines (e.g., engineers and scientists).

The project has three major efforts:

To encourage faculty to think about how entrepreneurship should be taught to all students.
To prepare educational resources from the high-technology industry for access and reuse by others.
To develop an archive of digital resources, and thereby provide access to a network of resources for entrepreneurship educators.

Distinct Differences From Other Offerings

This program offers connection to Stanford's resources and pooled resources for entrepreneurship

Impact Achieved For Students and Campus

Bottom line: Venture for America is a strong training program for graduating students who want to get into business creation and also helps revitalize our economy. Todays VFA partnerships are over 50% non-technical, so it does not limit any candidates from applying (in some ways, the fellowship seeks to open doors particularly for these students). Therefore, Venture for America's resources would be best used on a campus looking to: (a) give benevolent entrepreneurial students a new outlet for post-graduation plans, (b) create a role-model/success story, (c) build support for this lifestyle as a career path.
By advertising Venture for America as a prestigious scholarship/fellows program, a campus ambassador could build a long-term vision in students from varying degree paths and eventually place high achieving students in the program.

Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus

Here are the options for getting Venture for America involved on your campus:

Schedule an event. Venture for America is currently touring the country and visiting top schools and looking to expand. If your school is not scheduled for a visit (see calendar: http://ventureforamerica.org/events/), contact events@ventureforamerica.org for more information (VFA attracts a lot of attention at career fairs).
Become a VFA campus ambassador. Send resume and cover letter to jobs@ventureforamerica.org, titled "Application for Campus Ambassador - [your name]." For more information see: http://ventureforamerica.org/jobs/.

Contact Information

Mailing Address:
Venture for America
c/o Eileen Lee
40 West 29th St., Suite 301
New York, NY 10001

info@ventureforamerica.org | (646) 736-6460

Resources

[1] http://ventureforamerica.org 

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7537948&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=DpBX&locale=en_US&srchid=2371142341380851232981&srchindex=7&srchtotal=687&trk=vsrp_people_res_photo&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A2371142341380851232981%2CVSRPtargetId%3A7537948%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary

Also see:

https://twitter.com/venture4america

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t383l_7-o4o&feature=youtu.be (Andrew Yang @ Georgetown TEDx)

1 Overview

2 Purpose

The purpose of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists, engineers, managers, and others.
3 Distinct Differences From Other Offerings
4 Impact Achieved For Students and Campus
5 Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus
6 Contact Information

Organization:Stanford Technology Ventures Program

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