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CybaCipha

CybaCipha

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How many heads would work together to put a product out there ... from idea to implementation then seek funding to make it a reality. Catch is you only have 16 weeks. Class is no joke and requires teamwork.

Technology Entrepreneurship I

In an amazingly successful course, Chuck Eesley, teaches innovators how to build a startup from business idea to high-potential commercial opportunity.

The Course
This course introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. You will learn the process technology entrepreneurs use to start companies. It involves taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity, gathering resources such as talent and capital, figuring out how to sell and market the idea, and managing rapid growth. To gain practical experience alongside the theory, students form teams and work on startup projects in those teams.
This is the second offering of the class. Last time, nearly 40,000 students from around the world participated and worked in teams together. The top teams were matched with Silicon Valley mentors, and the best teams at the end of the class pitched their ideas to investors. Many of the alumni of the last class are continuing to build their startups and will be mentoring teams this time.
By the conclusion of the course, it is our hope that you understand how to:

Articulate a process for taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of alternative theoretical models).

Create and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital.

Create and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea.

Generalize this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into opportunities that can be used in larger companies and other settings.

Sign up at: hxxps://venture-lab.stanford.edu/venture

Who's interested and what do you bring to the table?

Marketing
Programming
Development
Project Planning
Artistic Creativity
Ability to go get dat dough
Ability to present in front of an audience
Whatever else
etc

BGOL Members who may form a team
LBOP - Marketing
Desire - Marketing, writing
SoulPatch -
Studio718 -
WiZe -
Soja - Programming, Development
Kogalee - Bean Pie Development
Jumbo -
ninjaspit - creativity/ideas and writing
Punch - funding
 
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Waits for Northside, Punch, Tronix, Kaya, McGuyver, SammyJax, mainman and everyone else to jump in.

:yes::yes::yes:

How the fuck I forget Shane, ViCious, YoungKingPin, ScorpDiesel, Hart, doggface, J.E.T.S., Harmattan, NaughtyD

Now if I forgot anyone ... I really gotta ask forgiveness.
 
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Workload
3 - 10 hours per week.

Technical Requirements
You need a computer that allows you to watch the video lectures, and the ability to upload your assignments which will be reports and powerpoint/video presentations.

Statement of Accomplishment
Subject to satisfactory performance and course completion, you will receive a statement of accomplishment signed by the instructor. This statement will not stand in the place of a course taken at Stanford or an accredited institution.
 
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Something like this is a great course to enlighten those who aspire to be entrepreneurs, and better prepare them for what lies ahead. Entrepreneurship is not an easy road.

I can personally attest to the fact it has cost me some valued relationships with both friends and family. But I'd do it all over again, and again and again.

My talent is to improve on an already existing system and make it more efficient and/or effective. However, my Achilles heel is my lack of programming skills. I've literally had to pay for that lack of talent both in time and money when dealing with these freelancers who don't give a shit about your project.

Unfortunately I don't have the required 10hrs per week to dedicate to this. But for those who do, you should take advantage of this. The odds are already stack against you. This can at least serve to better prepare ya to succeed.

Good drop as always Cyba!
 
Bump for the Humpday crew. The biggest problem like TRONIX said is finding developers because creating the product is one of the most important things.
 
i want to put my cousin on.

do they get to choose teams or do they split the classs up into random groups?

says 40k people were in the last class:eek:
 
themainman said:
i want to put my cousin on.

do they get to choose teams or do they split the classs up into random groups?

says 40k people were in the last class:eek:
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for the first 2 classes you don't get to choose teams. They throw a bunch of strangers together and force you to work on a project for 2 weeks. After that you can drop / switch, whatever.

Yes it is very competitive ... out of 40k people and over 500 teams, my team placed in the top 20. Out of the top 30, 10 teams got to present to VCs. We didn't finish our product in time to present but we were interviewed by Stanford and got a few write ups. Our marketing person was a beast and was able to draw traffic like nobody's business.

You should do it if you have an idea,
You should do it if you have something to contribute.
You should do it if you can program.
You should do it just so you know you can make a productive impact.
You should do it if you are breathing right now.

:dance::dance:

It starts next week, so don't sleep.
 
CybaCipha said:
Waits for Northside, Punch, Tronix, Kaya, McGuyver, SammyJax, mainman and everyone else to jump in.

:yes::yes::yes:
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I will say this.

As an entrepreneur, your venture is your baby.

Let me say that again........ it is your baby.

You need to feed it morning, noon and night.

It needs to consume you.

Why?

Because you start with a clean slate.

You know NOTHING about your idea and you know nothing about yourself along the way.

It would require you to push yourself beyond your limits.

If you don't know programming, it will make you a programmer.

If you don't know marketing, it will make you into a marketing person.

if you don't know finance, it will make you into a marketing person.

You need to look in the mirror and say "fuck you" to the old you and make a vow to not ever give up but rather innovate around the obstacles you will face.

You will experience obstacles but you will need to fuck your feelings and just do whatever it takes to get shit done.

You will have no excuses because you are in charge.

The good news is that black people are already bred with the qualities it takes.

If you are a black adult, chances are that you have overcome huge obstacles when it comes to race, economics, discrimination and lack of opportunities.

Perfect shit needed to succeed.

It's no mistake that we as a small group influence pop culture to the extent we do.

We are about grinding, built into our upbringing, values like working twice as hard as the others, sacrificing in the present, delayed gratification.

We have it.

What we lack is understanding of the system.

And this course will teach you the system.

And you will excel.

My first presentation with VCs, I rocked it. Cocky mofos mouths were open watching on.

I'm on my way. You will read about me.

However I'll keep watch on this thread and drop some gems to help anyone over the humps.

If anyone noticed, I have been creating threads at ever step of my journey for 2 reasons:
1. To allow anyone interested to have a repository of information for every step, making my journey transparent to benefit those coming through
2. Allows me to find all the shit I need in 1 place i.e. a bookmark for my shit.

There was a reason I was advocating an education board but in the absence of that, search the threads of the people in here for a wealth of info.

Shout out to JD bitchass Walker who talked so much shit, he forced me to challenge myself to move out to silicon valley. He made me tell myself, if I was the shit then go fight with the big dogs and now I'm here cause I'm a militant thru and thru

Shout out to the people who reach out to me when I asked about relocating, Hogfat, Bills and a couple of others I can't remember right now...
Helped me settle down faster.

Shout out to Cyba who kept posting that hot shit, mainman who also pointed me in great directions, Dallas Bueller for posting that cutting edge hot shit also, johndoe (the white boy) for dropping hot shit also

Shout out to SammyJax for coming thru when I was at my lowest

Shout out to all who provided me with words of inspiration and comfort along the journey.

Bless.

Respect.
 
Awww shit! OK let's do this. You will sweat, cry, laugh if you put in that 10 hours a week. 5 out of 10 people in your group will drop out due to work, life, death, family, etc. It's not the situation, its how you deal with it. Some team members will always be late or missing when you need them.

Man the ONLY reason I didn't drop out was because 1. We had a kick ass idea that we believed in and 2. I was the CEO of the group and I was the glue that kept people from dropping out.

We were selling our idea, taking checks, cash etc without having a finished product.

You will hate this class and you will love this class.

I signed up and if you guys want to form a BGOL group PM me. Bring your ideas and your skills.


It will be 12 weeks of :dance: :hmm: :lol: :smh: :eek: :cool: :puke: :angry: :yes: :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: and :D

It's worth it though
 
I would be in, but I got too much shit working on my own shit and 100% consulting gig. Bless up to others though.

Shout out to Kaya for bouncing ideas and putting me onto lean startup methodology to have a clear vision to move forward.
 
wiZe said:
Cyba, did you keep in contact with any of your group members after the class?
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One bish is fine as fuck ... and we supposed to link up when she comes to NY. She is well known in the DMV area and is a true hustla.
One dude lives in my neighborhood but is in Japan right now.
One dude is a PhD and an activist so just an email now an then.
The other chick lives about 20 minutes from my job but we never linked.

So I guess the answer is yes but now that we have nothing to bind us together it's on some "see ya when I see ya"! If we would have had a second programmer / developer in our class, it would have been a different story.
 
soulcontroller said:
I would be in, but I got too much shit working on my own shit and 100% consulting gig. Bless up to others though.

Shout out to Kaya for bouncing ideas and putting me onto lean startup methodology to have a clear vision to move forward.
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Yeah this class is based on LEAN methods
 
CybaCipha said:
One bish is fine as fuck ... and we supposed to link up when she comes to NY. She is well known in the DMV area and is a true hustla.
One dude lives in my neighborhood but is in Japan right now.
One dude is a PhD and an activist so just an email now an then.
The other chick lives about 20 minutes from my job but we never linked.

So I guess the answer is yes but now that we have nothing to bind us together it's on some "see ya when I see ya"! If we would have had a second programmer / developer in our class, it would have been a different story.
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Cool. Guess I shouldn't have used an alias. Got like 1000 of them it seems. lol
 
soulcontroller said:
I would be in, but I got too much shit working on my own shit and 100% consulting gig. Bless up to others though.

Shout out to Kaya for bouncing ideas and putting me onto lean startup methodology to have a clear vision to move forward.
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Need to give you a call with some recent developments


:D
 
Class started today... I hope yall at least looked at the syllabus and filled out your profiles. We can make a BGOL only group but will need at least 2 - 3 programmers. Bring your ideas. They will get rejected, regurgitated and torn apart only to be built back up better than you can imagine.

:dance::dance::dance:
 
CybaCipha said:
Class started today... I hope yall at least looked at the syllabus and filled out your profiles. We can make a BGOL only group but will need at least 2 - 3 programmers. Bring your ideas. They will get rejected, regurgitated and torn apart only to be built back up better than you can imagine.

:dance::dance::dance:
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I'm a developer and would be down if we can get at least two other developers. I've tried something like this before with only one other developer and it proved to be a bit too much work... plus the other dude wasn't that good. I can do Android app development (though I starting to investigate Multi-Platform Mobile App frameworks), embedded systems, algorithm development, and back-end web. Niche areas of expertise include computer vision, autonomous systems, big data analytics, and intelligent agents.

Who knows, when we IPO and they ask how we met, we can say we met on a porn board :lol:
 
CybaCipha said:
Class started today... I hope yall at least looked at the syllabus and filled out your profiles. We can make a BGOL only group but will need at least 2 - 3 programmers. Bring your ideas. They will get rejected, regurgitated and torn apart only to be built back up better than you can imagine.

:dance::dance::dance:
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:yes::yes::yes:



themainman said:
Props Cyba.

Link to the first few chapters of the text for any1 who hasnt purchased the book yet. That'll get u thru week 1 n most of 2.

http://anonym.to/?http://www.edvard...ures-From-Idea-to-Enterprise-pdf-for-free.pdf
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Always coming thru :yes::yes::yes:


soja said:
I'm a developer and would be down if we can get at least two other developers. I've tried something like this before with only one other developer and it proved to be a bit too much work... plus the other dude wasn't that good. I can do Android app development (though I starting to investigate Multi-Platform Mobile App frameworks), embedded systems, algorithm development, and back-end web. Niche areas of expertise include computer vision, autonomous systems, big data analytics, and intelligent agents.

Who knows, when we IPO and they ask how we met, we can say we met on a porn board :lol:
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Friend of a friend is always my excuse


:cool:
 
soja said:
I'm a developer and would be down if we can get at least two other developers. I've tried something like this before with only one other developer and it proved to be a bit too much work... plus the other dude wasn't that good. I can do Android app development (though I starting to investigate Multi-Platform Mobile App frameworks), embedded systems, algorithm development, and back-end web. Niche areas of expertise include computer vision, autonomous systems, big data analytics, and intelligent agents.

Who knows, when we IPO and they ask how we met, we can say we met on a porn board :lol:
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This is an ethnic and cultural edutainment board.​

:dance: :dance:
 
Syllabus

Syllabus

Technology Entrepreneurship, 2013


About the course

Course Objective
This online course introduces the fundamentals of technology entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley and now spreading across the world. You will learn the process technology entrepreneurs use to start companies. It involves taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity, gathering resources such as talent and capital, figuring out how to sell and market the idea, and managing rapid growth.

The class demonstrates the entrepreneurial mindset: where others see insurmountable problems, entrepreneurs look for opportunities in technology and business solutions. An entrepreneurial perspective is also a wonderful way of thinking in order to tackle new opportunities in social entrepreneurship, whether it is in government or NGOs.

By the conclusion of the course, it is my hope that you understand more specifically how to:
1. Articulate a process for taking a technology idea and finding a high-potential commercial opportunity (high performing students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of alternative theoretical models).
2. Create and verify a plan for gathering resources such as talent and capital.
3. Create and verify a business model for how to sell and market an entrepreneurial idea.
4. Generalize this process to an entrepreneurial mindset of turning problems into opportunities that can be used in larger companies and other settings.

How this Course is Taught
This course is taught via a team-based experiential project. Students can get more out of the experience by joining a team either offline or via http://venture-lab.org, and can work with their teammates on projects. Teams can post links to their project material in blog comments, and can comment on each others’ work. The instructor may occasionally view projects, and may post comments, but there is no guarantee that he will view or comment on any particular student or team’s work.

Target Audience
This college-level course is designed for all backgrounds and majors, including those with interests in science, engineering, and humanities who seek to understand what the entrepreneurial mindset and its key processes are about. Topics introduced in this course are relevant for future founders of enterprises, as well as the future employees of a independent or corporate startup. People of all ages and backgrounds are welcome in the course.

Course Structure
The course is divided up into 2 parts. Each part has a team project in the form of a write-up and presentation. The team project for this course is the Opportunity Analysis Project, where you will test whether the startup idea you have is worth pursuing and customers agree with the problem you are solving.

The team project for Technology Entrepreneurship, Part 2, is the Opportunity Execution Project, where you test the rest of the aspects of the business model and figure out how to actually commercialize the product or service.

Each session corresponds to one week. Each session gives you a different aspect of the business model that you should test for that week. Your team should update a blog each week with the hypothesis you tested, what experiment(s) you ran, and what the outcome was.

Course schedule
Due dates:
5/5 - Assignment 1 (why are some start-ups successful?, submit individually)
5/12 - Assignment 2 (common attributes of success start-ups- algorithmic team submission)
5/19 Team Formation Assignment
5/26 - Create a Business Model Canvas (team submission)
6/2- Low Fidelity Prototype (team submission). Peer evaluation will follow the submission
6/9 - Marekting Opportunity/Testing Your Value Proposition with customers (team submission). Peer evaluation will follow the submission
6/16 - Opportunity analysis project (team submission). Your team will brainstorm an idea to work on for a startup project and test that idea with customers and market analysis. You will work on that idea (or you can switch to a new one for Part 2 of the course. Peer evaluation will follow the submission.
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Course Details
Week 1
Course Overview: Silicon Valley and Key Frameworks • Videos o Video 1 - Overview (Recommended reading Ch. 1.1, 1.2, 1.5) o Business models o Video 2 o Video 3 o Video 4 o Video 5: Building the Team o Instagram cofounders on Startup Ideas • Recommended Reading o Ch. 2.1, 2.4 o The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar, Prologue, Preface, and Chapters 1-3 • Additional Resources (optional) o "The Secret History of Silicon Valley," Steve Blank, Nov 20, 20008. o It's Not the People You Know. It's Where You Are, Randall Stross, NYT, Oct 22, 2006. o "When it Comes to Innovation, Geography is Destiny," Pascal Zachary, NYT, Feb 11, 2007. o "Growth of a Silicon Empire", Henry Norr. o Fred Terman at Stanford o More videos on ECorner on team and culture

Week 2
Creativity and Improvisation • Videos o Video of talk by Kirsten Leute from the Stanford Office of Technology Licensing o Video 2-1 o Video 2-2 • Recommended Reading o Ch. 3.1-3.4, Ch. 5.3-5.5, 6.2, 6.3 o Brainstorming Rules, Stanford Design Institute, Jul 26, 2009. • Additional Resources o Brainstorming Fundamentals, Stanford Design Institute o More videos on ECorner on Creativity

Week 3
From Idea to Opportunity: • Videos o Video 2-3 o Video 3-1 • Recommended Reading o Ch. 4.1, 4.4-4.6, 4.8, 9.3-9.4 • Additional Resources o More videos on ECorner on opportunity recognition

Week 4
Customer Development and Lean Startups • Videos o Video 4-1 - Customer Development o Video 4-2 o Video 4-3-1 o Video 4-3-2 o Video 4-3-3 • Recommended Reading o Browse Steve Blank's blog categories: Customer Development and Customer Development Manifesto o Browse Eric Ries’ blog posts on customer development o Ch. 7.1-7.3, 8.1-8.2, 8.4-8.5 • Additional Resources o "Four Steps to the Epiphany" available on Amazon or at http://www . cafepress.com/kandsranch o More videos on ECorner on product development

Week 5
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing • Videos o Video 4-4 o Video 4-5 Marketing o Video 5-2 Sales • Recommended Reading o Legal issues - 10.3-10.8 o Ch. 11.1-11.4, 11.8-11.9 o Steve Brown's hxxp://www.innovatorstraction.com/ • Additional Resources o More videos on ECorner on sales and marketing o The Chasm Group web site, Geoff Moore's marketing strategy consulting firm.

Week 6
OAP Presentations • Upload to YouTube with "technology entrepreneurship 2012" as a tag and hxxp://venture-lab.org
 
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