Grad Grow Learning Opportunities

Do you have a great idea for a new venture? Or perhaps you have a team and are ready to launch. Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, consider joining the Stanford Venture Studio. The Stanford Venture Studio is an entrepreneurship program for Stanford graduate students exploring a new venture. The Studio provides resources at every stage of a venture. Once a member, you'll find access to co-working spaces, weekly advising with founders and venture capitalists, and plenty of other valuable resources. 

All members of the Stanford community share a responsibility to support Stanford’s mission and reputation by holding ourselves and other community members to the highest standards of ethical and lawful conduct in all activities. Have a look at the Office of the Chief Risk Officer's Guide to Ethics and Compliance Excellence to see how Stanford strives to always operate with integrity.

StartX is an educational, non-profit business incubator associated with Stanford. The StartX accelerator program is designed to help entrepreneurs launch fledgling companies in a range of industries. StartX requires no fees and takes zero equity in companies.  There is also a StartX Med for medical entrepreneurship. To be accepted, at least one founder of your company must have a Stanford affiliation.  

Admission is highly competitive and based on two rounds of interviews.

In this video, Emeritus Professor Claude Steele (formerly Dean of the School of Education at Stanford) discusses his research on stereotype threat. Essential information for anyone interested in promoting equality and diversity, this presentation will be especially useful to graduate students who teach or lead diverse groups. From the Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching lecture series. 

How does one become a more effective team leader and member? A high-performing team leverages the individual expertise of team members. University of Virginia professor Melissa Thomas-Hunt details factors that undermine team performance, such as mistaking shared information for critical information and overweighting the contributions of high-status members. Thomas-Hunt offers solutions for overcoming these barriers to success by fully valuing members' unique forms of expertise.

A service of the Learning Technologies & Spaces office, the Tech Desk offers free checkout of camcorders, projectors, laptops, and a variety of other multimedia equipment to all Stanford affiliates with valid SUID cards. Additionally, the tech desk offers poster printing services for all of your conference and presentation needs. Stop by Lathrop with any questions you may have.