High Technology Entrepreneurship Program
May 26 - August 8, 2008 in Silicon Valley
Overview
This intensive program is designed for graduate students and select upperclassmen interested in starting and sustaining a high technology business. The program combines full-time on-the-job experiences at a real start-up company with a course on the fundamentals of finance, managing people, and thinking creatively within entrepreneurial environments. The program's rigor will stretch the abilities of any student, and it will require intensive outside-of-class teamwork from all.
Program features:
- A three-credit graduate-level course (also open to undergraduates), NBA 6750 High Technology Entrepreneurship, taught by John Nesheim, who teaches entrepreneurship at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Mr. Nesheim, an engineer, is a veteran of Silicon Valley. Since 1976, he has focused his research on how to succeed in high-tech start-ups.
- Visits by distinguished industry leaders
- An eleven-week internship in a high tech start-up
- The opportunity to explore careers in high tech and develop a network of contacts
- This program is designed for graduate students and highly focused upperclassmen (by special permission) who intend to seek a career in the high tech industry. The intense demands of this course require that applicants be prepared to commit serious amounts of time to working on small-group projects. You will have limited free time during this program
Program benefits:
During the program, you will:
- work at a real start-up company in Silicon Valley during the day for eleven weeks
- attend course lectures by Mr. Nesheim and guest speakers from 4-8 p.m. on Tuesdays
- live in the heart of high tech start-up country, the southern region of the San Francisco Bay area
- learn about real issues at new enterprises by discussing topics in a seminar-style setting
- engage in a team project focusing on the planning of a new enterprise, its financing, typical operating and administrative problems, and alternatives for growth and sale
- attend tradeshows and Cornell alumni events in Silicon Valley
- participate in social events—planned and spontaneous—led by student volunteers
- have access to lectures via streaming video for preview and review