English Courses

How to Get Ideas & Measure - Stewart Butterfield of Slack & Adam D'Angelo of Quora - Stanford CS183F

Slack and Quora founders discuss developing startup ideas and tracking company metrics.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Startup Mechanics - Kirsty Nathoo, Partner and CFO at Y Combinator - Stanford

A startup operator’s overview of the mechanics founders face from incorporation through hiring and fundraising.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How and Why to Start A Startup - Sam Altman & Dustin Moskovitz - Stanford Startup School

Dustin Moskovitz explains why to start a startup, while Sam Altman introduces four core elements: idea, product, team, and execution.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Need-Finding and Empathy - Why Your Customers Can't Tell You What They Want

Learn why customers cannot directly say what they want, and how need-finding turns deeper understanding into actionable insights for innovation.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Analysis of Algorithms - 2015 Recreation of 1969 Lecture

Donald Knuth recreates his first Stanford lecture, focusing on the analysis of algorithms.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Impact Investing in Cleantech

Explores how impact investors back cleantech ventures that pair financial returns with environmental and social benefits.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Entrepreneurship Strengthens a Nation

Steve Blank traces Silicon Valley’s origins in electronic warfare and explains how lean-startup principles are being used to speed innovation in government.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - How a Facebook Designer Thinks - Julie Zhuo

Julie Zhuo explains how starting with a real people problem and a measurable definition of success leads to more useful product features.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Organizational “Drag” and How to Reduce It

Learn to identify organizational friction, understand how it slows operations, and use practical tools to reduce it.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Leadership BS - Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

Explores why leadership development fails and how organizations can build effective leadership skills instead of relying on inspirational stories.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Entrepreneurial Lessons for Real World Application

William Perry reflects on funding, gaining support for technical innovations, and applying entrepreneurial lessons to national security challenges.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Design Thinking Hybrid - An Evolution of Innovation

A look at how design thinking can evolve to address new problems and bring innovation into everyday business culture.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Design Thinking vs. The Lean Startup

Compare design thinking and the lean startup, examining their core ideas, practical differences, and limitations for teams creating customer-driven products and services.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stanford Seminar - Electric Vehicles & Startups, Marc Tarpenning Co-Founder of Tesla

Marc Tarpenning discusses the technical hurdles and startup decisions behind building electric vehicles, from battery safety and range to venture capital.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tiny Chips, Big Potential - How to Improve Diagnostics with Bioimaging Technologies

Tiny biochips and wearable sensors turn physiological measurements into diagnostics, including a demonstration of heart attack detection.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video