Start Here Mondays connects Penn students with Venture Lab staff for personalized guidance on programs, resources, and opportunities across the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether you are exploring an idea, building a venture, looking to join a team, or simply curious about entrepreneurship, we’ll help you understand your options and identify a practical next step.

Hosted in conjunction with Wharton’s Lifelong Learning Initiative in San Francisco, Scale School guides Bay Area entrepreneurs from successful startup to scalable enterprise.

Bringing Wharton research together with the experience of founders, operators, investors, and industry leaders to help growing companies navigate the decisions that come after early traction from customers and capital to people, systems, technology, and culture.

Discover the paths to entrepreneurship at Penn! VLab's Expo brings together Penn's programs, resources, clubs, ventures, and more!

Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective ways to create value, whether you are launching a venture, building something new inside an organization, or exploring a next chapter in your career. Wharton Online’s Entrepreneurship Certificate guides you through a clear three-stage progression — Inspiration, Identification, and Implementation — helping you cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, evaluate opportunities with rigor, and build the relationships and systems that move an idea into action.

Led by Lori Rosenkopf, Simon and Midge Palley Professor; Professor of Management; Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School

Shalini Nag, PhD believes anyone with the drive to solve problems can be an entrepreneur and is building Venture Lab into the place where Penn students turn that drive into reality.