Entrepreneurship 101

Resources

• Startup Owner’s Manual
• From Impossible to Inevitable
• The Startup Equation
• What Every Engineer Should Know About Starting a High-Tech Business Venture
• High Growth Handbook
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship
• Ego is the Enemy
• Hello, Startup
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
• Financial Management for Technology Startups
• Built to Last
• Meaningful: The Story of Ideas that Last
• Lean Product Playbook
• Product Manager’s Desk Reference
• Product Manager’s Handbook
• The Innovator’s Solution
• Never Eat Alone
• Never Split the Difference
• Radical Candor
• Ego is the Enemy
• Founder’s Dilemmas
• Venture Deals
• How to Measure Anything
• Thinking in Bets
• Organization Theory and Design
• The Knowing-Doing Gap
• The Innovator’s Dilemma

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to think like a startup founder
• Learn how to evaluate a startup idea
• Learn how to structure a pitch
• Learn how to negotiate with venture capitalists
• Learn how to manage the finances of a startup business
• Learn how to effectively measure progress
• Learn how to creatively measure “intangibles”
• Learn how to manage customers
• Learn how to hire effectively
• Learn how to build an effective culture
• Understand how to manage teams
• Learn how to build innovative behaviours
• Learn how and when to scale
• Learn how to manage a board of directors
• Learn how to prepare for success, failure, and continuity

Pass/Fail Conditions

• Demonstrate consistent “founder thinking”
• Build an effective business