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Spring 2006-2007ELE 591 na, npdf
High Tech Entrepreneurship
ENROLLMENT BY APPLICATION OR INTERVIEW. DEPARTMENTAL PERMISSION REQUIRED.
This "hands-on" practical course introduces students to the analysis and actions required to launch a successful high tech company. Using several conceptual frameworks and analytical techniques, it addresses the challenges of evaluating technologies for commercial feasibility, determining how best to launch a new venture, attracting the resources needed to start a company (e.g. people, corporate partners, and venture capital), preparing comprehensive business plans, structuring business relationships, and managing early stage companies toward "launch velocity" and sustainable growth.
Sample reading list:
William Sahlman, Some Thoughts on Business Plans
William Sahlman, Note on the Venture Capital Industry
Joseph Bower & Clayton Christensen, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
Michael Roberts, Legal Protection of Intellectual Property
Pierre Mornell, Zero Defect Hiring
Other Requirements:
Open to Graduate Students Only.
Other information:
This course includes lecture/discussion sessions, readings from articles, classroom discussions of "cases" describing real entrepreneurial situations, and visits to class by entrepreneurs and investors to provide current "real world" guidance. Enrollment is limited to graduate students and is by written application only. Applications may be picked up and returned to Room C-205 in the E-QUAD by December 5, 2006.
Schedule/Classroom assignment:
| Class number | Section | Time | Days | Room | Enrollment | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40312 | L01 | 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm | T Th | Friend Center of Engineering 006 | Enrolled:4 Limit:59 |


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