About

The Stanford Initiative for Entrepreneurs’ Resilience and Well-Being (SIER) aims to understand and promote the traits that define successful entrepreneurs, especially in health science and technology. 

Silicon Valley, and Stanford University, are well known as training grounds for many of the nation’s most successful innovators. Nonetheless, many entrepreneurs struggle to succeed at various stages of the startup process. SIER is designed to shed light on their struggles and successes to help entrepreneurs build resilience and maintain well-being throughout their entrepreneurial journey. 

Based in Stanford Medicine, SIER builds on the work of the Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign and the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), which is the Stanford Engineering entrepreneurship center, to enable researchers to examine why some entrepreneurs persist and ultimately achieve their goals, while others do not. Future learning programs will support not only participants’ entrepreneurial success, but also their mental health and well-being as they tackle difficult leadership roles.