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Stanford students vie to be 'Entrepreneur Idol'
- transburgh 20y agoAnyone from that class on yCombinator? Would love to hear a first hand account.
- RyanGWU82 20y agoI'm a CS grad student at Stanford and involved with some of the startup-related activities here. Entrepreneur Idol isn't actually part of a class, it's just a small event run by the Graduate School of Business. It's an elevator pitch competition, which is relatively common at business school. Of course, Stanford is unique in its connections to the venture capital industry -- many of the VCs are about one block from campus. The organizers have held this same event a couple other times earlier this year. In December, one of my co-founders participated and placed 4th. We won $100 from that which we still haven't spent yet. Unfortunately I wasn't at this event so I can't add much more than what the LA Times reporter said. I know one of the students they quoted, and he's quite smart/talented.