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Stanford University.
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Scaling an organization is a hard problem.
Most firms don't have the skills, they don't have the vision,
they don't have the strategy to grow their organization.
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At Stanford, you'll be exposed to the world's leading faculty in management and
strategy.
The faculty that teach in the regular MBA program.
And we'll provide you with those skills, that knowledge to scale your organization.
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>> When we talked with Stanford about bringing programs and
what Stanford is special at.
Boot camp was a great addition because it teaches our business community
life long business skills.
And there's just, that's just priceless from being a startup
to even having established business practices, we can always get better, and
that was just sustainable.
>> Stanford is a world-class institution.
And it has so much to offer that we wanted something unique.
We wanted something that could build on Stanford's legacy and hopefully,
the legacy of the home that it will make in Redwood city.
With the GSB, everything is constantly changing.
You're innovative, you're creative, you're in the heart of Silicon Valley and
so, we saw it as an opportunity.
To become a part of something that was bigger.
That would benefit the city, the community,
the residents and we, we just saw GSB as the place to do it.
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>> So something that's very unique about the boot camp we've designed.
Is the fact that in an extremely short period of time we've distilled
the key lessons from different components of the business school curriculum.
This first set of lessons have to do with the firm's strategy and
its relationship with the competitive environment in which it operates.
The second set of lessons have to do with the firm's relationships with
external actors.
Whether that's its relationships with the governments and the community, or
whether it's the firm's relationships with people who finance the company and
supply capital to the company.
The third set of key lessons that we've sort of focused on in
this intense curriculum have to do with intra-company challenges,
the challenges of developing people, motivating people, recruiting people, and
doing that in an innovative and growing company.
[LAUGH] >> I came to the entrepreneurship
boot camp because I saw a need within my organization.
and within my company for more strategic vision.
I never done any sort of business classes.
I'm an engineer by trade and I thought it would be a great opportunity to
learn more about the business aspect, strategy and things like that.
>> I thought the way that.
The course was spread out over a few months doing the two day sessions every
few months was really effective as well because it allowed for time for reflection
and also we were able to connect offline with some of the participants
which made for more valuable sessions when we did get back together.
>> I think the biggest thing for
me was gaining tools that helped me evaluate my ideas because I.
As an entrepreneur, I'm not constantly thinking about oh, we, maybe we
could go do that, or maybe we could go do that or maybe we should build this thing.
It's given me a lot of, like a framework and stories and
examples that I can use to, evaluate my ideas a little bit better.
>> Stanford's the home of innovation and entrepreneurship.
People from Stanford have started companies and
watched them grow, taking big organizations, and made them even better.
So, to learn about these things, Stanford is the naturally place to come.
Redwood City boot camp has just been a fantastic addition to our
business community here in Redwood City.
Sign up early, get involved,
take advantage of this because you don't wanna be left behind and left out.
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