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10 YouTube Videos Every Entrepreneur Should Watch. The Entrepreneur’s Handbook – 59 Resources For First Time Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Corner: Stanford University's free podcasts and video clips of entrepreneurial thought leaders and innovators from Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurship Training and Seminars for Business and Management Skills - Skills Training Classes. Entrepreneurship | Video Courses on Academic Earth. Entrepreneurship is not always a reflection of ownership or risk.

Rather, it is a mindset that seeks to break new ground. Entrepreneurship, as a field of study, has a wide, multi-discipline foundation; successful entrepreneurs need a broad understanding of business in order to evaluate opportunities when they arise. There are few job positions listed under the title “entrepreneur,” but there are many that require such skills. A great number of positions seek candidates who have drive and creativity and who understand the nature of success. Graduates with degrees in entrepreneurship are better equipped to meet the diverse needs of start-up organizations.

They understand the unique challenges of new and expanding businesses. Sample Courses Entrepreneurship students can expect to take a variety of classes intended to provide the basis of a broad understanding of business practices and procedures. Possible Specializations Associate These abbreviated programs get entrepreneurs up and running. Entrepreneur Wisdom Database. Sorry, But No Sale. Garrett Camp sold StumbleUpon for a reported $75 million a year after graduation. Then he bought it back. His again; Garrett Camp of Stumbleupon. In 2007, Garrett Camp pulled off an entrepreneurial accomplishment of a lifetime: He sold his college startup--StumbleUpon, a discovery engine that finds the best content on the web for each unique user--to eBay for reportedly $75 million, a mere year after graduation.

But Camp's entrepreneurial spirit shone even brighter in April 2009 when, unsatisfied with the results of the sale, he bought the company back. Since then, he has restored the energy of a college startup to what had become a corporate entity, tripled StumbleUpon's revenue and grown its user base 118 percent, to 10 million. It's a story every college startup thinking--or dreaming--of selling should study. "Our idea was to make it like channel surfing on TV," says Camp, now 31. Their website initially offered users a basic way to "stumble" through websites that they might like.