Journal Topics / Discussion Threads

In your journal entries, be sure to provide enough details, but keep them succinct. Spend some time building compelling analyses and insights, but keep the posts short so that others can read and respond to them quickly. Strong journal entries use the key question as a starting point to share opinions. Strong journal entries also link to points made in other entries (either by the author or others) and they tie to other aspects of MFP, including E140A lessons. Feel free to talk with your fellow classmates, employees and mentors about any of the assignments before you craft your postings.

Journal entries are due by 9am on the date listed below. By Friday at 9am of the same week, you must add remarks to anywhere on the site (e.g., a new thread, a response to any of the formal assignments, a response to another posting altogether, etc.). We encourage responding to more than one posting, as the intent of the journals is to be just as much a discussion as a blog post.

Please do not share sensitive company information in your journals, and, as always, everything stays within the MFP group per our "contract" with each other.

	Topic	Due
Q1	The Technology and Business Model	July 2
Q2	Summer Survival Kit	July 9
Q3	Culture and Values	July 16
Q4	Creativity and Innovation	July 23
Q5	Reflection at the Midpoint	July 30
Q6	Measuring Success	August 6
Q7	Leadership	August 13
Q8	Case Study Topics	August 20
Q9	Video or Book Reviews	September 20

In preparation for the summer journaling assignments, please peruse the following articles:

• "The Stanford Diaries", from IEEE Spectrum Magazine, November 1997
• "Dear Diary: Engineering interns chronicle life at a startup", from Stanford Report, November 1997