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  4. About Stanford

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of San Jose in Stanford, California, United States. Stanford is situated adjacent to the city of Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley. It is one of the most widely known and highly regarded universities in the world and ranks highly in numerous academic categories.

  7. Quotes about Stanford

    1. “ I'm just going to go to the same place everyday and study for 3 hours and do this. I picked writers who weren't trained to be writers, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill and Mark Twain, and decided I was going to learn it on my own terms, not on the terms of some English Literature class that taught Shakespeare. And it was just survival. It was desperation, it was street instincts kicking in, and it's paid off for me ever since. One of the greatest writers I know is Steve Jobs. I don't know how he got so good. But if you watch his Stanford Commencement Address, you could see how good he is. And he used to have me write some things for him. I'd think, ”
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    2. Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?

      Explore ben's blog (May 18 2012) Recruiting

      ... and early 90s, MBAs ran most of the best new technology companies. Scott McNealy and Ed McCracken, Stanford MBAs, ran the two best new computer companies, Sun and Silicon Graphics, respectively. John Morgrid... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Andreessen Horowitz   Sun Microsystems   Bill Campbell

    3. How to Choose a Startup Incubator

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Apr 16 2012)

      How to Choose a Startup Incubator ...ted in Twitter and FourSquare, and now runs AngelList and Venture Hacks. "There are incubators like Stanford and MIT, and there are incubators like University of Phoenix. They give different levels of help, a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard Business School   Andreessen Horowitz   Stanford

    4. Let Your Employees Design the Office. Seriously.

      Explore inc.com (Apr 10 2012)

      Let Your Employees Design the Office. Seriously. ...others have white boards built in. We chose these because someone had seen something similar at the Stanford d.school. To handle the power and network challenges, we ran power grids on the ceiling. These grid... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Colorado   Stanford   Boulder

    5. 10 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Beat the Odds

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Apr 8 2012)

      10 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Beat the Odds ... team stayed tight as they developed the technology, first working out of Larry Page’s dorm room at Stanford, then a garage Minimize status differences and insist on courtesy and mutual respect.... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Japan   Stanford

    6. 5 Things I Learned About Entrepreneurship From Y Combinator's Paul Graham

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      ...gnitive science with a specialization in human-computer interaction and has completed coursework at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   Graduate School of Business   Stanford

    7. 8 Pieces of Advice Every Entrepreneur Needs

      Explore inc.com (Feb 17 2012)

      8 Pieces of Advice Every Entrepreneur Needs ...ht see me the same way. The same is true in a business setting. Hiding underneath the Gucci and the Stanford b-school degree and the VC name-dropping is a person who might be just as nervous and intimidated a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Stanford   Gucci   Jeff Haden

    8. Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball"

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Feb 2 2012)

      Startup Lessons From 17 Hard-Hitting Quotes In "Moneyball" ...ment was made to the young Billy Beane when he was trying to decide between the full scholarship to Stanford and a career in Major League Baseball. Billy's mom asked if he could do both. The answer was, he co... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Apple   Dropbox

    9. Uncertainty: Every Entrepreneur Feels It; Here’s How To Deal

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      Uncertainty: Every Entrepreneur Feels It; Here’s How To Deal ...me a huge international best seller. Which then led to a role as a professor of entrepreneurship at Stanford. And now in his current reincarnation, he’s VC at Kleiner Perkins, essentially doing a lot of the s... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jason Calacanis   Manhattan   Harvard

    10. How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

      Explore Steve Blank (Sep 22 2011) Marketing

      As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks us... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Stanford   Berkeley   Columbia University

    11. 5 Tips To Better Written Business Communications

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      5 Tips To Better Written Business Communications ...when I found out that Paul Romer, a brilliant and famous economics professor at my graduate school, Stanford, took the first few classes of his macroeconomics course to teach writing skills to his MBA student... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Stanford

    12. Case interviews and the flaws of common interview techniques

      Explore curiousjuice.com (Jul 31 2011) Recruiting

      Case interviews and the flaws of common interview techniques ...if this was a good method and what in fact was the best interview technique. In my first year at Stanford, I interviewed for three well known management consulting firms: BCG, Bain and McKinsey.  I got kno... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft   Stanford   Brian Halligan

    13. Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Jun 15 2011) Marketing

      Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ...ng a real company. Look for diversity in outside activities. Major universities, like Stanford and MIT, are flush with smart people from all cultures, many of whom would bring a whole new energy... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boston   Seattle   Austin

    14. Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Jun 15 2011) Funding

      Reinventing the Startup Board Meeting: Part 2 ...edback to refine and improve a product before scaling a business. Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. We propose that early stage startups commun... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Ann Miura-Ko   Stanford University   The University of Michigan

    15. Skip the MBA if Entrepreneur is Your Lifestyle

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Apr 26 2011)

      Skip the MBA if Entrepreneur is Your Lifestyle ...g with three partners in 1982. McNealy's background is surprisingly all business, after an MBA from Stanford, rather than computer science or programming, and unlike most members of the Silicon Valley communi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Harvard Business School   Sun Microsystems

    16. LinkedIn’s Co-Founder On Why It Took Off – with Konstantin Guericke

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      LinkedIn’s Co-Founder On Why It Took Off – with Konstantin Guericke ...had built and to cater to some specific sections of that. So I’m working with some grad students at Stanford about building an add on to LinkedIn. Because LinkedIn created the API because LinkedIn knew they c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Hollywood   AOL   Harvard Business School

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