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The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011
University courses in entrepreneurship are better—more useful, more real, more likely to produce actual companies—than they have ever been. Here are 10 we’d love to take.
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A Patent Dispute Reaches the Supreme Court
Stanford University is squaring off against one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies over the ownership of a lucrative patent.
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Inspired by Silicon Valley
What inspired you to become an entrepreneur? On his blog wanderingstan , Stan James writes about the kinetic e... Read more
Detecting Earthquakes with your laptop?
IF YOU drop your laptop computer, a chip built into it will sense the acceleration and protect the delicate moving parts of its hard disk before it hits t... Read more
Best Courses 2011: Mayfield Fellows
Providing students with a front-row seat to all the drama that Silicon Valley has to offer Read more
EntrepreneurshipWeek USA at Stanford
Next week is EntrepreneurshipWeek USA. Created by the Kauffman Foundation, the event is to promote entrepreneurship and educate the public about what it m... Read more
Stanford Hosts Technology Summit
Stanford University this month hosts its fourth annual business summit, which will focus on promising entrepreneurial activities and investments in the gl... Read more
Recruiting The Best And The Brightest
Stanford University has developed a program that could help solve a perennial problem confronting growth companies: how do you tap into the pool of traine... Read more
Managed Competition Gains Admirers
Hillary Clinton health care is back -- and it's working. Read more
Apture: A Tech Company Banking on Journalistic Cred
There's certainly no shortage of tech companies these days. Apture , based in San Mateo, California, and led by 23-year... Read more
Five Universities You Can Do Business With
Smart schools resist the temptation to treat every new idea like it's the next Google. Read more
March Madness at Work
It's that time of year: March Madness, otherwise known as the NCAA men's basketball tournament. On Sunday evening, the selection committee revealed the fi... Read more
Why New Orleans Is the Coolest Start-up City in America
Idea Village, a New Orleans-based not-for-profit that helps support local entrepreneurs, is helping rebuild its city's economic devastation by organizing a s... Read more
Acquire Web Content from Outside Sources
You can acquire both text and graphical content from outside sources for your site through syndicated companies that share their content. Obviously this c... Read more
Sad News for Google's Founders; Senior-Citizen Startups
Trading bingo for small business. Tired of reading about all these pimple-faced whippersnappers starting multi-million-dollar tech companies out of... Read more
Shock to the System
A business owner with death anxiety may attempt to build an institution that ensures his or her own immortality. Yalom explains why confronting your mortalit... Read more
Peter Francis
Age: 34 Hometown: Marion, Mass. Undergraduate Degree: Middlebury College Business School: Graduate School of Business, Stanford Universi... Read more
How CEOs Lie
Stanford researches tackled the problem of corporate doublespeak in a recent survey of conference calls. They looked for speech patterns of CEOs who subse... Read more
How to Spot a Lying CEO
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Fib... Read more
A Wide-awake Way To Rotate Work Shifts
Three health researchers have found a way to help workers adapt more sucessfully to rotating shifts. Last year, Charles A. Czeisler and Martin C. Moore-Ed... Read more
Review: Power
Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer explains why some people become powerful and others do not. Read more
Tech Entrepreneurs, Academics Gather in Silicon Valley
The fourth-annual Innovation Summit @ Stanford will focus on new-media business opportunities. Read more
More Time for Work? Let the Car Drive Itself
If only we could get work done on the way to work! In the next decade, the idea might become a reality. In business, the opportunity to let the car do the dr... Read more
Angel, Venture Capital, or Bootstrap?
Tech entrepreneurs need to pursue different avenues for financing when starting out. Fortunately, online resources can help out. Read more
How to Handle a Spike in Sales
As the economy improves, company owners face a new challenge: How to handle a spike in sales. Read more
Stanford Preps for Silicon Valley
Stanford University's entrepreneurial internship program primes engineering students for aggressive recruitment by Silicon Valley companies. Read more
Where are All the Women?
Sexism in Silicon Valley? When Candace Fleming tried to raise money for her start-up Crimson Hexagon in 2007, her industrial engineering degree fro... Read more
Future Facebook Culture Change?
Facebook announced at the beginning of this month that they are Read more
Great Moments In Recruiting
PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend... Read more
Hardware Goes Green
With energy costs rising and data center servers using more energy, technology makers are giving businesses a choice of more energy-efficient hardware. Read more
How to Find Small-Business Grants
Bye bye recession . The nightmare is over . Maybe. The Wall Street Journal (alo... Read more
Getting In On the Action
Universities are on the prowl for deals with entrepreneurs. Here's the lowdown on five tech transfer schools. Read more
Harness the Power of Weak Ties to Weather the Downturn
Sometimes it's who you know, not who you know well, that can help you land a new job. Using the Internet can help you stay in touch with a lot of contacts at... Read more
Harnessing the Sun More Efficiently
Stanford University sophomore Tom Currier might seem part mad-scientist, but his "death ray" is attracting investor attention as he grows an innovative company. Read more
Hire Education
Looking for bright people to recruit for your company? Statistics show an increasing number of business school graduates are interested in working for sm... Read more
Should You Reward Bad Ideas?
Some ideas are crazy. Some are underdeveloped. Some will fail. How can you deal with them without squelching your employees' creativity? Read more
Big Help in the Big Easy
Organizers of New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week estimate the event will provide some $900,000 worth of consulting to local businesses. Read more
Team Angst
A psychiatrist examines the conflict that often arises in work teams, comparing them with group therapy sessions. A good team relationship, he suggests, requ... Read more
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