White-bellied Heron: Stanford NovoEd course - "Scaling Up Your Venture Without Screwing Up" - Planned Bookstore / Computer Store at WUaS, WUaS needs help with scaling in the following ways: A) Fundraising-wise B) Hiring Stanford graduate students as instructors in Google + Hangouts C) in terms of 7,106 languages and 242 countries, with degrees D) in terms of online C.C. Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B diplomas E) Bookstore / Computer store-wise in all 7,106 languages

Dear Prana, Juan, Al, Jaini and Universitians, 

Glad some of you are going to take this Stanford NovoEd course as well - looking forward to collaborating with you. Juan - in Spain and on WUaS's Board - and I met in a Stanford Coursera course in 2012, "Startup Boards: Advanced Entrepreneurship," and thanks to course assignments and Google + Hangouts' international scope, he, and two others (Tito and Stefanos) became members of the WUaS Board (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University_Foundation).  Jaini, might you have interest in exploring this 5 week free course? 

I just emailed the following to the two Stanford professors teaching this course, one of whom is from India and the other from the U.S., with helpful overview information about WUaS: 

"Dear B & H, 

I'm excited about taking your upcoming online Stanford course beginning September 8th vis-a-vis a startup I'm focusing on scaling - World University and School, which is like Wikipedia with MIT OpenCourseWare:

"Scaling Up Your Venture Without Screwing Up" - 
https://novoed.com/scaling-up-your-venture-without-screwing-up. 

MIT OCW-centric World University and School, which is also a wiki for open teaching and learning, is planning to offer its first free online undergraduate bachelor's degree course of study beginning in autumn 2015, where high school students would take 32 MIT OCW courses online - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/ - at "The College at World University and School" ... http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/The_College_at_World_University_and_School.

And WUAS would like to become the Stanford / MIT / Harvard / Oxbridge of the Internet in all 7,106 languages and 242 countries with time. 

Please have a glance at the 12 main areas WUaS plans to develop in here - 

http://worlduniversityandschool.org - for an overview.

Thank you and looking forward very much to your course. 

All the best, 
Scott

I also posted about this course and cultures that are informing WUaS, including especially great universities' in my blog entry from today - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2014/07/flicker-stanford-business-school-free.html ... 

Sincerely, 

Scott

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Hi Juan (in Spain), Al (in the Carolinas) and Universitians,

I ordered the book for the Stanford NovoEd "Scaling Up Your Venture Without Screwing Up" - https://novoed.com/scaling-up-your-venture-without-screwing-up - course beginning September 8th, and am able to read the beginning of it online as I wait for the printed copy to arrive. 

Here, by the way, is the beginning of the planned Bookstore / Computer Store at WUaS, planned for all 7, 106 languages -  http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Bookstore_/_Computer_Store_%28New_%26_Used%29_at_WUaS.

I also emailed the course's two professors, and also am glad to have heard back immediately from Bob Sutton about WUaS's scaling challenges : 

"Scott,

Thanks for writing. Your start-up looks fascinating, and clearly, you have some interesting scaling challenges!

Cheers

Bob"

Yes, WUaS needs help with scaling in the following ways: 

a) Fundraising-wise

b) Hiring Stanford graduate students as instructors in Google + Hangouts

c) in terms of 7,106 languages and 242 countries, with degrees

d) in terms of online C.C. Bachelor, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B diplomas

e) Bookstore / Computer store-wise in all 7,106 languages

Looking forward to the course and developing a conversation with Stanford Professors' Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao. 

See you in the course, 

Scott

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