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Class featured on the Carlson website

nachiket — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:46:55 +0000

Great news—Thanks to the hardwork of students past and current, our class was recently on the Carlson School webpage. Here is the link to the story.

http://www.carlsonschool.umn.edu///news/story.aspx?story=08/31/10/New-Class-Helps-Students-Strike-’Gold’

Congrats to Alex and John on their success.

New website to promote emerging firms

nachiket — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:22:43 +0000

Kauffman Foundation recently launched istart–a website community to help connect with the other startups, mentors and investors. I think the idea is to promote and simplify business plan competitions and make business plans searchable so firms get visibility from the right sources. Chekc it out.

http://istart.org/home.php

Good resource for business plan

nachiket — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:13:47 +0000

I found this nice website that gives voice to real world entrepreneurs. Good resource to make yourself heard as well as to get a sense of good business plan pitches. Go register and pitch your company.

http://vator.tv/

Business plan competition on renewable energy

nachiket — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:09:38 +0000

If you or anyone has an idea for renewable energy, you might want to send an application for the business plan competition at the University of Albany.

http://www.neny.org/ContentManager/index.cfm?Step=Display&ContentID=314

On ethics: should entrepreneurs stretch the truth?

nachiket — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:03:37 +0000

On a list serve, someone forwarded this article from the Harvard Business Review blog… seems to be apt based on what we discussed last class. What do you think?

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/04/is_it_ok_for_entrepreneurs_lie.html

3M Seminar on IP

nachiket — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:24:53 +0000

Sign up early for the 3M seminar on securing IP. This 2-hour session will provide an overview of intellectual property and suggest procedures for cost-effectively securing IP assets within science and technology related businesses. Attorneys with extensive experience in a securing and managing intellectual property in a broad range of industries will lead the discussion.

This is a GREAT opportunity, but it is LIMITED to the first 50 registrants. Preference is given to graduate students, but even if you are an undergrad, you might be able to get in (you could mention that you are in this technology entrepreneurship class to show that you have a demonstrated interest). Check out the flyer.

Shift feasibility report due date?

nachiket — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:21:15 +0000

We would like to give you some time to work on the feasibility report and presentations. Do you think we should shift the report and presentations to after the Spring Break? We can have a session before the Spring Break on licensing or startups and other strategies to improve appropriation.

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Ind Creation report guidelines

nachiket — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:49:09 +0000

Please send us the report by email in MS Word format so we can edit it and put in comments for future improvement. Use the guidelines mentioned in this post (also in the syllabus) for the report.

1. 12 point font 1 inch margins all sides double spaced

2. 6-7 pages with suitable appendices and references (6-7 pages even for two co-authors on one report)

3. In addition submit the document in the following format (your name (s)_one – two word industry title. docx

4. Use appendix for charts and tables as evidence for the claims mentioned in the report. Do not put random charts that you do not refer to in the report.

5. Use references as evidence for claims made. Use footnotes or any other citation style that allows the reader to go through the key idea easily.

Hope that helps. Good luck with the reports.

For the presentation:

1. Prepare 5-7 slides for your presentation on Tuesday. Answer the main question of each section on each slide.

2. Prepare a 3-5 minute presentation. Use additional slides for support in case there are questions. These might have some tables or additional evidence.

Technology Module completed

nachiket — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:49:54 +0000

I have posted the slides for the technology and markets module. I apologize there was a glitch in translation for the simulation model so it did not work exactly, but I had written a paper related to this model a year ago and I can share it with you if you are interested. Send me an email and I can send you the paper on pdf.

It clarifies the details of the simulation model in some depth. For those who want the paper on Patenting and timing strategy in the bio-pharmaceutical industry (presented in class) send me an email as well. This paper also has a simulation model of these strategies we discussed in class.

I am excited to read your industry creation presentations next Tuesday. Good Luck

Class 2/23 and 2/25

nachiket — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:55:03 +0000

We will discuss the role of technology in business. We will look at what constitutes a dominant design and when does it emerge. We will also see how technologies are systems and whether there are better ways of designing products and organizations to take advantage of the systems view of technology. There are no readings for Tuesday. For Thursday2/25, we will discuss the case on the video game industry. I would like you to think about the following questions as you read the case. We will have a discussion in class on Thursday be prepared:

Q1: Which strategies mentioned in the article influence Technology push, which ones affect customer adoption? Why?

Q2: Does this hold for industries with network effects (demand side scale economies)? Why and Why not?

Q3: What does the case imply for the ongoing standards war between HD DVD and Blu Ray? Who do you think will win and why?

Q4: Are there any tradeoffs when making products backward compatible?

Required Case Reading: Technology Leapfrogging by Melissa Schilling

Slides: Upcoming

Supplementary Materials: IBIS World Report on Video game Consoles (you know where to get it)

Innovators Dilemma (Be backward compatible or move ahead)