Technology Entrepreneurship
Fall 2012
Documents
- Syllabus and Schedule - Revised November 13, 2012
- Course Policies
- Academic Honesty
- Department of Computing Technology Goals
- Academic Calendar
Assignments
Team Business Presentations
- 2012
- The Sizing Source - Fit. Better.
- Round Robin Analytics - Where to sit at baseball games
- Sonic Boom Phones - Headphone Speakers
- DualCom - One phone, two personalities
- Silver Sync - Call your car
- 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
Resources
- Books
- Founders at Work - by Jessica Livingston
- Venture Deals - by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
- The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries
- The Innovator's Dilemma - by Clay Christensen
- Breaking Windows - by David Bank
- Articles and Advice
- How to Raise a Seed Round
- 30 Tips for Startups - Jason Calacanis
- Startup Lawyer - A legal resource for startups
- The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business by James Altucher
- User Interface Advice
- Microsoft's Lost Decade - Vanity Fair, August 2012 (original)
- The Rise and Fall of Palm and webOS - by Chris Ziegler from TheVerge.com
- Are Successful People Nice? - HBR blog
- How To Find Startup Ideas
- On the Madness of Software Patents and Trolls - Brad Feld
- Valve - Game Maker Without a Rule Book - New York Times (link)
- Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital - Harvard Business Review
- Angel Financing - by Kevin Callaghan
- Excel worksheet for investor presentation - by Kevin Callaghan
- Case Study: The BKG Group - by Joanna Belbey
- Class Notes from Peter Thiel's Stanford Startups Class - by Blake Masters
- This Week in Startups
- The Collected Advice from This Week in Startups
- Startup Naming Advice - from TheNextWeb
- Inc. - Resources for entrepreneurs
- Mint.com's Founders Institute presentation - Startup advice and real numbers
- Sequoia VC: Startups Should Not Ignore B2B - Business Insider
- Firm Narrative - for entrepreneurs who want to tell more effective stories
- Videos
- Copyright: Forever Less One Day - (Thanks Dominic.)
- Three Things Entrepreneurs Do for Our Economy - Kauffman Foundation
- Eric Ries on The Lean Startup - This Week in Startups
- News
- LaunchTicker
- Seed-DB - a database of seed accelerators and their companies
- Hacker News - from Y Combinator
- Techmeme
- ReadWriteWeb
- AllThingsD
- People
- Marc Andreessen - VC
- Brad Feld - VC
- Fred Wilson - VC
- Paul Graham - VC,essayist
- Dan Bricklin's writings and blog
- Robert X. Cringely - prognosticator
- Esther Dyson - angel
- Patents, Trolls, and the ridiculous mess that is our IP legal environment
- Startups and Patent Trolls - by Colleen V. Chien - Santa Clara University (original)
- List of the largest NPE - (Non-Practicing Entities, mostly trolls.)
- History
- Why Wesabe lost to Mint - a tale of two start-ups
- Turbulence in the PARC - Xerox PARC 1970 - 1975
- Steve Jobs building NeXT - c. 1986
- Almost Perfect: The WordPerfect Story - by W. E. Pete Peterson
- Funny
- If patents never expired
- So you want to launch a web startup? - NSWF
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