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Welcome Class of 2012

djkim — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 03:46:54 +0000

Entrepreneur Society welcomes Class of 2012! Hope your orientation is as fun as it was for us. Don’t forget to stop by our table at the org fair on the 24th!

Product Realization and Technology Commercialization Seminar

crabasa — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:16:02 +0000

Below is the schedule for a great seminar (Product Realization and Technology Commercialization) that is being held on campus (Fridays at 3pm, ETC 2.140) and is open to the public. No need to register, just show up hear from some of the sharpest minds at UT about brining your ideas to market. The seminar is held every Friday leading up to the I2P (Idea-to-Product) competition.

Date	Topic	Key Learnings	Speaker
8/29	Introduction	Technology commercialization, product development, new production introduction; Difference between technology commercialization and new venture creation	Dr. Steven Nichols
9/5	Customer Pain	What is the problem that the technology helps to solve? What is the process that tech entrepreneurs follow to help solve customers’ problems?	Dr. Norm Kaderlan
9/12	Unit Economics	Difference between cost and price; Understand value (customer doesn’t care how much it costs you to make it); Product development and manufacturing cost versus sale price	Tom Ortman
9/19	Funding	Getting projects financed internally at a company; Getting funding externally	Susan Davenport & Jamie Rhodes
9/26	IP	Patents, trademarks, copyrights; provisional patent, continuation, international patent; public domain prior art; lab notebook	Steve Sprinkle
10/3	Entrepreneurship	The mindset and process of an entrepreneur	Dale Misczynski
10/10	Intrapreneurship	The mindset and process of an intrapraneur	Hall T. Martin
10/17	CTO as Founder	What is the role and what are the learnings of a CTO that starts a company?	Dr. Chetan Kapoor
10/24	Competitor Analysis	How are others solving this problem?	Bart Bohn
10/31	I2P Global Competition	Attend I2P Global on Friday Oct. 31 and Saturday Nov. 1 at the AT&T Conference Center
11/7	Your First Dollar	Go to market strategy	Dr. SV Sreenivasan
11/14	Business Plan & Pitch	How to write a business plan; The components of a business plan; raising internal company funds; business plan preparation inside of a company	Dan Watkins & Blair Garrou
11/21	Pitch Deck Review	Idea-to-Product pitch and a business plan (McCombs team visit) pitch with comparison.	Rob Adams

A networking happy hour will follow each seminar from 4-5pm at the Spider House Cafe.

MBA Student Independent Study for MindBites

admin — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:06:11 +0000

Your place to learn what others know, MindBites is an exciting social marketplace and publishing platform for video instructional content, based in Central Austin.

We are looking for an exceptionally bright, motivated and entrepreneurial McCombs MBA student for a very hands-on Independent Study project for the spring of 2008. While your exact mission will depend both on your specific interests and our assessment of the best opportunities when you start, the effort will likely include:
• Diving in and helping out with current state of our rapidly growing web business
• Working directly with founder and CEO (HBS MBA 1999, McKinsey, veteran of two tech startups) to identify and prioritize specific, focused opportunities, both in terms of market development ( e.g. the crafting market, the DIY automotive repaiur market, professional training, etc.) and more importantly ACTUALLY ATTACKING THE OPPORTUNITY and making something happen.
• Identify, prepare and close related business development arrangements that align with our market push ( e.g. deal with Scion or O’Reilly auto parts, Craft Magazine, etc.)
• Bunch of other miscellaneous stuff across the business ranging from probably shooting a video here and there, to helping the CEO formulate financial projections and strategies for raising money, to writing for our blog site, to fixing the office printer.

This will be a fun and exciting opportunity and you will learn a lot. As with all entrepreneurial ventures, this will be a very hands-on and active experience and not have you just analyzing and writing presentations. While, again we will tailor the experience to meet your specific skills and desires, this project would appeal to those interested in:
• Entrepreneurship
• Web/technology businesses
• Venture capital
• Marketing (especially digital marketing)
• Business development

Applicants should:
• be exceptionally sharp
• be passionate about MindBites and our mission
• be willing to roll up your sleeves and work with our team
• be reasonably familiar with current activities on the web
• be reasonably tech savvy
• know Kung Fu

Interested candidates should email Jason at mindbites dot com and please attach a resume. Thanks!