Feb
15
Discovering Entrepreneurship - Field Trip to Plug And Play
February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Today, for class, we went to Plug and Play Tech Center (PnP) for a field trip. For startups in the Silicon Valley area, this is a really cool place to go and get all the resources you need to get going. I have personally enjoyed the idea of an incubator since I lived in South [...]
Feb
12
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Six
February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Professor Tina Seelig, who I have mentioned before here and here, came to our class today. We spent the majority of the class period engaged in an activity designed by her, and I have to say it ranks in the top five of the most AMAZING classes at Stanford thus far. It was a phenomenal rush and I think I can spend at least twice as much time analyzing what happened in the activity than we actually spent on the activity. Here’s an entry of how things progressed.
Feb
8
Discovering Entrepreneurship - Class Four
February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The theme for today’s class was different ways a person can engage in entrepreneurship. We had three guest speakers, all of them students, who talked about health, energy, and tech startups. The discussion wasn’t too much about tips and tricks to being an entrepreneur but rather an analysis of the industry and some insight provided by students engaged within that field. Before we did that though, we performed quick, 1 minute pitches of startups we researched as homework.
Feb
5
Social Entrepreneurship ASB - Class Five
February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Our most recent class wasn’t extremely insightful, but we covered a lot and explored a couple things in greater detail. The first half of the class was spent discussing for profit versus nonprofit and the second half involved a quick presentation by me of triple bottom line (TBL) economics and discussion of some of the trip logistics. Because the class didn’t discuss too much that can be reinterpreted into a post, I’ll spend most of my time reiterating my talk into this post.
Feb
1
Discovering Entrepreneurship - Class Three
February 1, 2008 | 1 Comment
Today we had Professor Tina Seelig come to our class and talk about brainstorming, as well as a guest from Europe talking about human nature. Most of the class was taken up by an activity by Professor Seelig, with some random bits of discussion thrown in to the mix. Overall, the class was very fun, and although there were some take-away lessons, I didn’t particularly enlightened. Instead, I was fired up and ready to start the business we came up with during our activity with Professor Seelig.