Beyond Silicon Valley: How One Online Course Helped Support Global Entrepreneurs

Michael E. Goldberg, Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, takes readers on a international adventure. From Cleveland, Ohio, to transitioning economies in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, Goldberg tells the stories of students who took his hugely popular Beyond Silicon Valley massive open online course (MOOC). The students start businesses, mentor entrepreneurs, grow entrepreneurial advocacy organizations, and energize the startup ecosystems in their communities.

All proceeds from Beyond Silicon Valley will be used towards the purchase of additional books which will be donated to entrepreneurship students in the developing world.

"In Beyond Silicon Valley, Goldberg has created an indispensable playbook to help entrepreneurs, regardless of where they may live and work, start and scale the companies of the future."
— Steve Case, co-founder of America Online and author of The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

"Beyond Silicon Valley breaks new ground in teaching entrepreneurship and economic development."
— Philip Kotler, Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

"An engaging speaker, writer and forward thinker, Goldberg has provided a roadmap for anyone building an entrepreneurship ecosystem in an emerging economy."
— JJ Ramberg, host, MSNBC's "Your Business"

"Beyond Silicon Valley is captivating. Michael Goldberg will change how you think about entrepreneurship and where risk-taking, business-building people can flourish."
— Brad Stone, author, The Everything Store and The Upstarts

Michael E. Goldberg is a venture capitalist and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Design and Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Goldberg created the massive open online course, or MOOC, called Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies, which has attracted over 135,000 students from 190 countries with subtitles in 16 languages (the most on the Coursera platform). Inc.com named Beyond Silicon Valley one of the top online classes that “will make you smarter and more interesting.” Goldberg spoke about the impact of his MOOC at TEDxHeraklion in Crete and TEDxFulbright in Santa Monica.