Fwd: [Technology Entrepreneurship venture-class] Technology entrepreneurship - what lies ahead
freeman murray
From: Chuck Eesley <c...@stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Subject: [Technology Entrepreneurship venture-class] Technology
entrepreneurship - what lies ahead
To: ventur...@lists.stanford.edu
Dear Technology Entrepreneurship enrollee,
We have a few quick updates for you.
First, we have updated a few of the fields in the forms at
http://venture-lab.org If you've already signed up and filled in some
information, you can log back in and update or revise your information
there.
Second, if you have not yet signed up at http://venture-lab.org,
please do so by March 18th. You must sign up for the first time, that
is, your old username/password will not work. There is no use looking
for it, the first time you have to create a new username / password
and sign up.
Next, an update on how we plan to use the team formation tool. We will
have a two-step process to facilitate team building. You can also go
through the videos individually, but we believe you will learn much
more within a team.
Step 1:
We will introduce a set of 6-8 teammates to you in a week or two (they
will get your name, email and paragraph). This will be your team for
the first assignment which is to get together and brainstorm an
initial set of 5-10 "worst business ideas" followed by 5-10 "best
business ideas". You'll map out the business model (using something
called the business model canvas) for each of them. This will be due 2
weeks later (we'll let you know when exactly). Alongside team
building, this assignment helps you practice brainstorming (a topic
covered in one of the lecture videos) and working with business models
(also covered in detail).
Step 2:
We'll have you come back to venture-lab.org for a final round of
teambuilding where we aim for you to form smaller teams of 3-4 people.
Here we will only share certain information that you provide with
suggested teammates, such as a LinkedIn profile. If you're happy with
your existing group, you can stay together and split into two teams of
3-4. Those who would like to change or adjust teams will have an
opportunity to select new teammates for the remainder of the team
startup projects. After the initial brainstorming assignment, for the
first project, you'll have a month to work on it and the top teams
will be paired with mentors. Then the final project will be due a
month after that (~10 weeks after the beginning).
Stay tuned at http://eesley.blogspot.com for updates.
Chuck Eesley
Amin Saberi
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