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Calendar for E140A - Management of Technology Ventures - Spring 2008
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:15-3:05 PM

Note: All sessions are held in Wallenberg Hall (room 127) unless otherwise noted.
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(Click on heading to see detailed information about the readings and assignments for each session.)

Week

Tues

 

Thur

 

I

4/1

Session 1  MFP Introduction  

4/3

Session 2  MFP Forum Overview & Job Search

Guests: MFP Alumni

II

4/8

Session 3  Silicon Valley & Stanford


4/10

Session 4  "Running the Numbers" Workshop

III

4/15

Session 5  Market Strategy I
Guest: Donna Novitsky
Case: California Vision Tools, Inc.


4/17

Session 6  Creativity and Innovation

IV

4/22

Session 7  Negotiation and Culture

4/24

Session 8  Market Strategy II - Customer Development
Guest: Steve Blank
Case: IMVU


V

 

4/29

Session 9  Life Science Entrepreneurship
Guest: Brook Byers
Case: Genomic Health - Team #1 Opens

5/1

Session 10 Lunch at Faculty Club

 

 

VI

5/6

Session 11  The Business Plan
Guest: Srinija Srinivasan and David Filo
Case: Yahoo! - Team #3 Opens

5/8

Session 12  Sources of Venture Capital
Case: Juniper - Team #2 Opens


VII

5/13

Session 13  Market Strategy III
Guest: Jeff Miller
Case: Documentum
- Team #4 Opens

5/15

Session 14  Term Paper Presentations (Part 1) Team #1 and #2

VIII

5/20

Session 15  Entrepreneurial Leadership
Guest: Heidi Roizen
Case: T/Maker Vignettes - Team #3 Opens

5/22

Session 16  Startup Teams
Guest: Josh Schwarzapel
Case: Cooliris - Team #4 Opens

IX

5/27

Session 17  Founder-CEO Succession
Guest: Peter Fenton
Case: Wily Technology - Team #1 Opens


5/29

Session 18  Ethics and Entrepreneurship
Case: Randy Hess - Team #2 Opens

XI

6/3

Session 19  Wrap-up and Takeaway
Guest: John Hennessy

6/5

Session 20  Term Paper Presentations (Part 2) Team #3 and #4

X

6/9

 Broad Takeaways Blog Post (no class) Due - 9:00 PM!
See MFP Forum Overview