Primary Entrepreneurship Focus

Focus Level (Entrepreneurship): Primary Entrepreneurship Focus

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Valley Meets Mission: Purposeful Entrepreneurial Ventures with Government (INTLPOL 300W, SIW 158)

Many of today's societal problems - cybersecurity, climate change, Covid-19, food insecurity - require effective collaboration between government and entrepreneurial ventures to combine scale, technology, and innovation. In each class, students will engage in candid, interactive discussions with entrepreneurial, government, tech, and investment leaders to examine drivers/obstacles behind government mission-oriented innovation and the need, role, and manner for the entrepreneurial ecosystem to support it...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Light Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
  • Other

Startup Law: Sustainability

Stanford law students, working under the supervision of the Stanford attorney teaching team, provide pro bono legal assistance and support to non-profit and for-profit startups focused on climate, sustainability, and impact.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Winter
  • Other

Emergence Accelerator Program

The Emergence Accelerator Program supports a cohort of highly driven social and environmental student entrepreneurs and ventures each year from across campus. Through key impact entrepreneurship workshops, coaching from successful founders, one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals, and facilitated networking and connections to prospective funders, students are supported to ideate, develop, and launch purpose driven ventures that address our most pressing health challenges.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
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Integrative Design, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital for Sustainability (SUST 234)

This course aims to empower students with knowledge, orientations, and skills to evaluate pressing sustainability challenges and design entrepreneurial solutions that advance sustainability and deliver lasting positive change. Through case studies, frameworks, and hands-on projects, students learn about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of start-ups and venture capital, nonprofits and philanthropy, and other business models that can achieve co-benefits and sustainable outcomes....
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP)

The Realizing Environmental Innovation Program (REIP) is intended to provide next stage funding (up to $500k) to PIs to move existing interdisciplinary environmental research projects toward actual solutions implemented by public stakeholders and private market actors. To be considered, projects should demonstrate both significant progress in identifying solutions and strong potential by private market or public end users...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Environmental Venture Projects (EVP)

The Stanford Woods Institute EVP program provides seed grants from $10,000 to $200,000, for up to two years, for interdisciplinary research projects that seek to identify solutions to pressing problems of the environment and sustainability. Research projects are evaluated for their intellectual merit, potential to solve critical problems, the integration of the disciplinary strengths...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Stanford Faculty
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Entrepreneurship without Borders (MS&E 272)

How and why does access to entrepreneurial opportunities vary by geographic borders, racial/gender borders, or other barriers created by where or who you are? What kinds of inequalities are created by limited access to...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
  • Other

Stanford Climate Ventures Playbooks Collection

A collection of specific playbooks for climate entrepreneurs, covering a range of topics from customer discovery, to product documentation, to IP licensing, to fundraising.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Other

Stanford Ignite

Formulate, develop, and commercialize your ideas with a suite of certificate programs designed for innovators.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Light Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Ecopreneurial Summer Internship Program (Eco-SIP)

Test your fit with an entrepreneurial career path by interning at an early-stage, sustainability-focused company for the summer. The Ecopreneurial Summer Internship Program (ESIP) is open to grad students across Stanford university, so long as they will be returning to enroll at Stanford for...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Summer

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