Preparing Your Business Idea for Launch

Course showcase and live Q&A with Stanford faculty

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Summary

In 2021, a record-breaking 5.4 million new business applications were filed in the United States. If you’re a budding entrepreneur looking for funding, how will you ensure that your business idea stands out from the rest? By learning the exact steps to take, and missteps to avoid from the ones who know best: seasoned entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.

Mike Lyons and Raymond Levitt showcase online programs available at Stanford to help you prepare your business idea for launch. They discuss both graduate and professional education learning options and answer Q&A to help guide you on your entrepreneurial journey.


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Graduate Course: Venture Creation for the Real Economy

Professional Program: Idea-to-Market 

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Speakers

Mike Lyons

Mike Lyons is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University Departments of Management Science and Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering. Serving in the Stanford position since 1988, he was a co-developer of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and the founding professor of Technology Venture Formation.

Mike is also a Partner with the Ratio Group (www.RatioIM.com) a technology advisory and venture capital group working with Fortune 500 clients and the U.S. Government.

Raymond Levitt

Dr. Levitt served on the faculty of the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Stanford from 1980 until his retirement in 2017. Before that, he served on the faculty of MIT's Civil Engineering Dept. from 1975-1980.

After retiring from Stanford, Dr. Levitt joined Blackhorn Ventures as an Operating Partner. He currently leads Blackhorn's investments in startups whose solutions aim to increase resource efficiency dramatically in all phases of the development of buildings and infrastructure.

Pedram Mokrian

Pedram Mokrian focuses on investments in big data, cloud/SaaS and energytech. His core expertise lies in the intersection of the energy, technology and services domains. He has served as a board observer on CPower (acquired by Constellation Energy). He was formerly a principal at Mayfield and has spent time on the commodities trading desk at Credit Suisse and held positions at Ford Motor Company, JDS Uniphase and Nortel Networks, broadly covering the areas of power generation, fiber-optics and hardware development.

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