Technology Entrepreneurship

Coming Soon to a Semester Near You

Documents

• Old Course Syllabus, Schedule, and Policies - Revised November 29, 2010
• Academic Honesty
• Academic Calendar

Old Assignments

• Business / Pricing Models paper
• Case Analysis
• Startup Advice Collecting

Resources

• Reading
• Are Successful People Nice? - HBR blog
• News
• Hacker News from Y Combinator
• ReadWriteWeb - Technology News
• People
• Marc Andreessen, VC
• Dan Bricklin's writings and blog
• Robert X. Cringely, prognosticator
• Esther Dyson, angel
• Paul Graham, essayist
• Advice
• This Week in Startups
• The Collected Advice from This Week in Startups
• SCORE - Small Business Advice
• Inc. - Resources for entrepreneurs
• Advice for VC's: How NOT to Pitch Yourself to a Startup
• Mint.com's Founders Institute presentation - Startup advice and real numbers
• Angel Financing Presentation - by Kevin Callaghan
• History
• Almost Perfect: The WordPerfect Story - by W. E. Pete Peterson
• Why Wesabe lost to Mint - a tale of two start-ups
• Funny
• So you want to launch a web startup? - NSWF

Case Analysis Presentations

• September 23,2010
  • Waffle: Firefox
  • Mordasini, Leo: Craigslist
  • Romanelli, Geno: RIM
  • Jagoda, Daniel: Hotmail
• October 7, 2010
  • Whitman, Alex: Lotus
  • Schwenke, Mark: TiVo
  • Binder, Jarad: Flickr
  • King, David: Apple
  • Martino, Paul: Yahoo!
• November 4, 2010
  • Natale, Andrew: Paypal
  • Errico, VJ: 37 Signals
  • Gregory, Jeff: Trip Advisor
  • Sturzenbecker, Keith: Adobe
  • Whipple, Greg: GMail

Past Investor Presentations

• 2010
• EmergiScan - Secure Personal Medical Record
• Virtual Band - Play Anywhere
• VirBio Pulse - Biofeedback for gaming and other applications
• Computing Emotion - Think and Go
• 2009
• ISO Boot - Disk Image Management - Kickstarted a great idea.
• vCap - Voice CAPTCHA
• QwikNIC - Plug and Go LAN Management
• Gradient Taillights - Revolutionizing Braking Systems