MANAGEMENT
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 273
TECHNOLOGY
VENTURE FORMATION
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Resources
The course reader can be accessed via the following link:
- HBS Online
- Note: additional material will most likely be added to the Reader during the term. We will notify the class via email when this occurs.
Links to sites that deal with entrepreneurial ventures
- STVP Entrepreneurship Corner - great resource at Stanford that provides videos and podcasts on entrepreneurship
- TradeVibes - Site where you can discover new companies and trade opinions on them
Week1: Session 1 & 2 - Course Intro & Opportunity Assessment
Week 2: Session 3 & 4 - Opportunity Assessment: Info Tech, Clean Tech, Med Tech
- Recap - Opportunity Assessment
- Sabrix Opportunity Assessment_IT
- Scott Weiss Opportunity Assessment_IT
- GreenVolts Opportunity Assessment_CT
- Paul Yock Opportunity Assessment_MT
- Timmon's QuickScreen Exercise (Note: Timmons and Spinelli New Venture Creation has an excellent, nore in-depth screening framework in Chapter 3)
Week 3: Session 5 & 6 - Sales & Marketing: Info Tech, Clean Tech, Med Tech
- IMVU case is in the HBS Online reader
- Slides for IMVU Case
- Lecture 3 - Reality Marketing_Audrey
- IMVU_Sales and Marketing_IT - Shawn Carolan_Will Harvey_Eric Ries
Gate I
Week 4 - Session 7 & 8 - Financal Plan & Intellectual Property
- Top 10 Signs of Dysfunctional Team
- M.Lyons_Financial_Lecture
- Peter Kent_Financial Lecture
- Insight Financial Model - Peter Kent
- Financial Modeling for Startups - Peter Kent Video
- Dan Dorosin_Intellectual Property
- Optional - How to Read a Financial Report - Merrill Lynch
- Calculator for social networks
- Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup
- http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/10/financial-model.html
- Legal Video - Company Formation - Dan Dorosin
- OTL Overview (2003) - Linda Chao
- Entrepreneurial Law - Dan Dorosin Video
- Intellectual Property - Critical Issues - Mark Radcliffe, Memorandum
- Legal Video - Intellectual Property - Dan Dorosin
- Short Answer Assignment - Legal Video Questions
Week 5 - Session 9 & 10 - R&D Plan: Info Tech, Clean Tech
- Intro to Operations - Mike Lyons
- Ops Review_CleanTech - Jeff Depew
- Handspring and Palm Case in HBS Online Reader
- Handspring Case Homework
- Handspring Case Development Timeline
- Handspring Operations
- Defining a Manufacturing Strategy in a Startup Environment - Karen Meyer
- Building Companies Using Imported Technology - Mike Lyons
Week 6 - Session 11 & 12 - R&D Plan: Med Tech & Capitalization: Clean Tech
- MS&E 272 - Multi-Stage Financing Spreadsheet
- Solazyme video links: 1, 2, 3, 4
- Web Video: Term Sheets - Dan Dorosin
- Required Reading: "Raising Initial Funding For High Technology Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area", Greguras and Stafford, Fenwick & West LLP.
- Required Reading: "East Coast vs. West Coast: Regional Differences in Venture Capital Financing", Cooley Godward, LLP, Aug 2007.
- Optional: "Presenting the Plan and Negotiating the Deal," Technology Ventures, Chap. 19, p. 423-435.
Week 7 - Session 13 & 14 - Capitalization: Med Tech, IT & The Business Plan
- Required Reading: "Starting Up in High Gear," Harvard Business Review (July-August 2000)
- Web Video: Eric Staser VC Pitching Video
- Web: "I Will Fix My Pitch" Bill Reichert
- Optional Reading: Juniper Networks in HBS Online
- Optional Homework
Week 8 - Session 15 & 16 - The VC Presentation
- The VC Presentation - Erik Straser Video
- Practical Autonomy Business Plan
- Venture Capital Term Sheet Primer
- How to pitch VC
Week 9 - Session 17 & 18 - Entrepreneurship: An Extremely Rewarding Sport
