Comments on: Teaching Entrepreneurship

By: Lincoln Nguyen’s Blog - Teaching Yourself Entrepreneurship

Lincoln Nguyen’s Blog - Teaching Yourself Entrepreneurship — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:15:28 +0000

[...] Stanford and Sloan special. Here’s a cool resource for teaching yourself entrepreneurship here at StartUpNorth by David [...]

By: davidcrow

davidcrow — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:56:59 +0000

Most of these are courses that are available online. You can access/download the lectures and materials.

By: geekversity

geekversity — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:14:43 +0000

@Raymond Luk,

agreed. There's some things you can't learn in books (just as there's some things you have to learn by failing). More power to those that provide their students with experience and expertise, especially if they're an Open Source initiative.

By: Peter Lai

Peter Lai — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:05:07 +0000

When and where are these courses?
Do I have to pay or is it free?

By: bsharwood

bsharwood — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:08:43 +0000

I'd actually agree with you there. They have an extensive research library and case studies and are one of the key schools behind the GEM report, but, ya, their marketing has something to be desired!

By: davidcrow

davidcrow — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:42:38 +0000

Babson was always an extremely well regarded MBA program focused around entrepreneurship. http://www3.babson.edu/eship/

I've never been able to find any materials from Babson. Which when talking about where to go as an entrepreneur for educational materials (different than going their for an MBA) puts it way behind Stanford, MIT and CMU in the mindshare department.

By: bsharwood

bsharwood — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:41:57 +0000

Worth noting here that the top entrepreneurship school for a masters program is Babson College in Boston. Small school, but great program (and my alma mater). It's also home of the Arthur Blank Centre for Entrepreneurship Research and The Lewis Institute for Social Entrepreneurship.

By: davidcrow

davidcrow — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:36:34 +0000

This started in my head as what is the PersonalMBA for would be entrepreneurs http://personalmba.com/.

The High-Tech Ventures book was my introduction to the business of early-stage technology product development. While many of the lessons are still valid, there are other resources.

By: davidcrow

davidcrow — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:30:36 +0000

Ray,

I'm sure the MIT and CMU folks will love that opinion ;-)

Agreed.

By: Raymond Luk

Raymond Luk — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:58:27 +0000

Anything we can do to encourage students to learn about entrepreneurship is a plus, even though "book learning" is probably not the best way to go about it. The Standford resources tend to be the best because they're developed by people who build companies for a living. You may not be aware but www.leadtowin.ca (though only in Ottawa right now) is actually an Open Source educational initiative. All of the course materials are free, in both sense of the word. It might be worth talking to Tony Bailetti about using their platform for a broader Startup School.