NovoEd launched today to make access to courses from prestigious educational institutions available to anyone, starting with Stanford.
Public companies are safer, more boring, less innovative, and take fewer risks than startups, right? Stanford professor Shai Bernstein tracked almost 2000 technology companies to find out.
Guest Post SMASH provides full funding for high-achieving, low-income high school students of color to spend time at California's top universities for five weeks during the summers after their 9th, 10th, and 11th grade years.
Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute — remember the Human Genome project — have simulated an entire organism in software for the first time ever.
Using a 128-node computing cluster, a team of scientists led by …
Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday.
The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a …
Thirty-five years of Apple memorabilia make up a museum-like collection of company archives that are hidden away in an off-campus Stanford University warehouse.
Stanford’s Apple Collection takes up more than 600 feet of shelf space in a climate-controlled facility at …
Salesforce.com has elevated Executive Vice President George Hu to the role of chief operating officer, the company announced today.
Salesforce.com did not have a COO (in name at least) previously, which is a little peculiar for such a high-profile company. …
You know how “whipper snappers” always tend to know how to use those “new fangled” devices? We think they are ahead of the curve as well. That is why DEMO created AlphaPitch for College and is extending its talent search …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
Last week, I made a call to entrepreneurs that it is time to change …
In an effort to extend its reach to college students, burgeoning location check-in service Foursquare announced its “Foursquare for Universities” program today. The program looks to help students and staff connect with each other and explore their campus by offering …
A startup team made up solely of college students may find themselves making tons of rookie mistakes, but a company founded by veterans may be trapped in yesterday’s thinking. And any company made up solely of either demographic has virtually …
Yesterday, VentureBeat joined venture capital firm Charles River Ventures to judge the first CRV Entrepreneur Idol competition.
Held at Stanford, the competition provided great insight on the interests of some of Silicon Valley’s future business leaders. More importantly, it provided …
