1 | Course introduction and elements & role of a business plan | |
2 | Idea generation | |
3 | Analyzing ideas and inspirations | Assignment 1A due |
4 | Speed dating for team formation | Assignment 1B due |
5 | More team formation and idea refinement | |
6 | Market segmentation & primary customer research | Assignment 1C due |
7 | Moving from the broad list of potential markets to specific targets | |
8 | Determining what you can do for your customer | Assignment 2 due |
9 | Defining and refining what makes you unique | |
10 | Simulation lab on marketing plan | Assignment 3 due |
11 | Competitive advantage | Assignment 4 due |
12 | Business economics part I: Cost of customer acquisition | Assignment 5 due |
13 | COCA examples and discussion | |
14 | How do you make your business economically sustainable & attractive? | Assignment 6 due |
15 | Sales and distribution | |
16 | Go-to-market simulation lab | Assignment 7 due |
17 | How do you design and build your product? | |
18 | Nuts and bolts of building your financial statements | Assignment 8 due |
19 | Product definition, development to delivery | |
20 | Legal considerations to start a company | Assignment 9 due |
21 | Scaling the business, team section & how to present a business plan | Assignment 10 due |
22 | Troubles ahead | Assignment 11 due |
23 | Student team presentations | |
24 | Student team presentations (cont.) | Assignment 12 due |