User:Clouser
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Michael Clouser
Mike is an Associate with the Edinburgh-Stanford Link, which he joined in mid-2004. The Edinburgh-Stanford Link is based in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburg. He runs the Link’s Tech Entrepreneur courses, manages the Link’s company-student intern programmes, and hosts several networking events throughout the year. Entrepredia was Mike's brainchild in the Spring of 2005. He sought funding for it and finally secured such in 2007 from the PROSPEKT programme. Entrepredia was then launched in January of 2008.
Mike’s teaching background and experience includes entrepreneurship and management courses at the University of Edinburgh, Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, and management courses for eCornell, a spinout of Cornell University.
Previously he worked for Silicon Valley venture capital firm Dot.Edu Ventures, whose academic founders were early investors in Google. At Dot.Edu he sourced seed funding deals and arranged follow- on rounds. Mike also served as CEO of Cornell- based Student Agencies Inc., in Ithaca, New York, during which time he helped incubate six companies, including Blackboard (IPO’d) and Jump, which was bought by Microsoft.
Mike’s entrepreneurship experience includes founding four companies (research and software). Recently he has co-founded Gadder, and entreprise software company, and Higher Education Enteprises, an elearning firm.
Mike holds an MBA and BSc, both from Cornell University, as well as an MSc from the University of Edinburgh. Currently he is pursuing his PH.D. in entrepreneurship and innovation from the Business School at the University of Edinburgh
