The Stanford Technology Ventures Program has a new face to help students. Angela Hayward, coming to Stanford from Khosla Ventures, will serve as the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network’s first entrepreneurship concierge, a resource for developing programming and relationships with Silicon Valley.

 

“Entrepreneurship thrives at Stanford, but entrepreneurship means different things to different people,” Hayward told the Stanford Report. “Each student has unique needs, experiences and appetite for risk. Therefore, there’s no such thing as a ‘standard’ entrepreneurship inquiry. Listening and staying connected to students from all over campus is key to the success of this role.”

 

A main role of the concierge will be focusing on interdisciplinary aspects of entrepreneurship, helping bring together business and engineering aspects of the field.

 

Largely, however, the Stanford Entrepreneurship Network (SEN) is leaving the role open to fill whatever niche it finds.

 

“We are currently doing a field test to see what is missing as an entrepreneurship resource at Stanford, and we hope to share this information with Angela so that she and the rest of SEN can help us fill those gaps,” said Mary McCann, president of the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, to the Stanford Report.

 

-Matt Bettonville