Stanford opens entrepreneur course to public

The Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship is seeking people who have ideas they would like to bring to market. Participants must have at least a bachelor’s degree but they cannot have a business background. They will have to have $10,000, the cost of tuition.

"We’re looking for people with ideas across the board," said Peter Reiss, the program’s director and a faculty member at Stanford’s business school. "You could have an idea about creating some new software that will help compose music, or a way to build a better oil well or something that will help in the developing world and maybe be a nonprofit venture. We’re trying to teach what it means to be an entrepreneur and what a successful startup looks like."

Aimee Slobin, the program’s associate director, said the course fee may seem high, but it doesn’t completely cover the business school’s cost of offering the course.

Kathryn Roethel, Special to The Chronicle

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