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Building the next generation of entrepreneurs |
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Like all successful startups in Silicon Valley, BASES was created in response to real people’s needs. With the rapid growth in high-tech and emerging companies, Stanford students naturally sought to understand more about the mysterious world of entrepreneurship. Finding the engineering curriculum seriously lacking in new-venture formation resources, five students got together to build an organization that would become the center of entrepreneurial activities at Stanford.
Student Roots
In the March of 1996, Rushan Jiang, Karen Hsu, Rod Brathwaite, Mandel Yu, and Chuck Lam, all from the engineering department, became the core founding team of BASES at Stanford University. BASES then went on to develop activities to fulfill the need of entrepreneurship education on Stanford campus
Today, BASES has exploded in growth both in number of officers who are constantly serving the Stanford community in entrepreneurship education and in membership size. Thought provoking activities such as our weekly Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Seminar, the spring Startup Job Fair, or our two annual capstone BASES Challenges, the Entrepreneur’s Challenge and the Social Entrepreneur’s Challenge (along with a host of other events, mixers, mailing lists, and contacts) are all here to serve the entrepreneurial community on and off Stanford University.