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'''<u>''<span style="font-size: large;">Stanford Graduate School of Business Initiatives:</span>''</u>'''
<u>'''<span style="font-size:mediumsmall;">Center for Entrepreneurial Studies</span>'''</u>
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) at Stanford Graduate School of Business is building a dynamic global community of entrepreneurs and thought leaders who are changing the world. This is accomplished with resources including:
The website for CES at Stanford Graduate School of Business can be found [http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ces here].
<u><span style="font-size:small;">'''Center for Social Innovation'''</span></u>
The Center for Social Innovation at Stanford Graduate School of Business cultivates leaders to solve the world's toughest social and environmental problems. It provides resources and programs to help MBA students, alumni, faculty, and field practitioners raise awareness, build relevant skills, and advance action. CSI participants lead corporate efforts to improve ethical and sustainable practices, manage nonprofits through strategic growth, and launch social enterprises that bring life-changing solutions such as loans to small businesses and safe lighting to the world's poorest places. Programs include:
*''Action'': study trips, impact labs, summer internships, and consulting services
'''<u>''<span style="font-size: large;">StartX:</span>''</u>'''
StartX is an educational non-profit that accelerates the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs through experiential education and collective intelligence. StartX requires no fees and takes zero equity. Its community is home to Stanford's top entrepreneurs in a wide range of industries including consumer IT, medical and hardware, raising over $200M with a 1.8M average per company funding rate from leading investors such as Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund and Venrock. StartX has $100,000 in resources from its partners, as well as free office space and legal services. It also provides mentorship from over 200 serial entrepreneurs, experts, angels and VCs, including individuals from Palantir, LinkedIn, Google, Twitter and many more in Silicon Valley. StartX focuses on education through customized programming and on-demand experts delivered when founders need it.
'''<u>''<span style="font-size: large;"></span>''</u>'''The website for StartX can be found [http://startx.stanford.edu/ here].
'''<u>''<span style="font-size: large;">Stanford Startup Weekend:</span>''</u>'''
Stanford Startup Weekend is an annual weekend innovation event affiliated with the national Startup Weekend initiative. Over one hundred of Stanford's entrepreneurs apply individually for a 54-hour marathon weekend of ideating, problem solving, and pitching to top venture capitalists. Entrepreneurs come from the schools of Engineering, Law, Sciences, Medicine, Education and Business.
Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. All Startup Weekend events follow the same model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it's a frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekend culminates with presentations in front of the judges with another opportunity for critical feedback.
The website for Stanford Startup Weekend 2013 can be found [http://stanford.startupweekend.org/ here].
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