Technical Entrepreneur, 2 courses, Parts 1 and 2:
Link to
Technical Entrepreneur Part 1, Fiction Recommender Project,
and the Brainstorm of Ideas class files and Part 1 topics
Objective Part 1: fundamentals of
technical entrepreneurship, pioneered in Silicon Valley
and spreading across the world.
Technical Entrepreneur
Types of People
What We Learned:
- We learned the process technical entrepreneurs use to
start companies.
- It involved taking a technical idea and finding high
potential commercial support, gathering resources such as
talent and capital, figuring out how to sell and market
the idea, and manage rapid growth.
- It demonstrated the entrepreneurial mind set: where
others see insurmountable problems, entrepreneurs look for
opportunities in technology and business
solutions.
- The idea was that an entrepreneur's
perspective is an excellent way of thinking in order to
tackle new opportunities in social entrepreneurship,
whether with governments or NGO
(non-government-organizations).
Part 1 Overview: My team project was
with team leader Amber Chang, who came up with a fiction
recommender social web site. We each provided
brainstorms of ideas, and my list of ideas was included
in the provided class files link, but Amber asked me to
join her team and I did, rather than pursue mine for
this part of the class. I'll list mine below that we did
NOT pursue in this class project. We were asked to
submit these and mine were from what I thought about
through life experience and conversations with others,
some are from what the internet search gave me, and some
just observations from being out and about. We explored
Ambers idea for the class project, but I share mine with you
for fun. These are what I had to submit before we did
pursue the fiction recommender for the class project.
Brainstorm (for fun) of ideas NOT pursued in this class
project setting
- Using an Academics Operating System for Case
Study for Real World Consideration for this class project
Link
to Description of Brainstorm Idea NOT followed of an
academic operating system for real world application
- Have stores of many kinds that mass produce all sorts of 3D
printed designs
Link
to Description of Brainstorm Idea NOT followed,
Have stores of many kinds that mass produce all sorts of 3D
printed designs
- Simulation of spinal correction with a rod
consideration for this class project
Link
to Description of Brainstorm Idea NOT followed,
Simulation Spinal Correction with A rod
- Real World Problems: hunger, world peace,
cars not dependent on fuel, heating and air conditioning
with efficiency and affordability, health care and
education
Link
to Description of Brainstorm Idea NOT followed,
Real World Problems: hunger, world peace,
cars not dependent on fuel, heating and air conditioning
with efficiency and affordability, health care and
education
- Inspirational and Creative Rock and Roll
Band Music Touring Scene Challenges:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed, the
problem of making great rock and roll bands and other
inspirational good music affordable and worthwhile again
for people with these talents to tour, uniting the world
once again, making everyone happy, as they used to more
commonly do with so much creativity and effort in my youth!
- Healthy Cosmetics, Perfumes, Lotions, Etc:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed, the
idea started at Helsinkis "Slush Fest" for healthy
cosmetics expanded to perfumes, lotions and all body
toiletries in general.
- Efficient Affordable Laundry and Other Similar
Tasks We Have to do but do not enjoy doing:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed, the
idea started at Helsinkis "Slush Fest" for making
getting your laundry done both efficient and
affordable, expanded to other tasks areas we do not
like to do that we have to do.
- Book Summaries of Skills for the Commuting
Market, with the idea of expanding it to other markets
where that may be useful:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed, Book
Summaries of Skills Expanded to work in Other markets
other than the commuting market.
- Twitterlike follower bubbal for places expanded for
other markets besides people and places:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Twitterlike follower "bubbal" for places expanded for
other markets besides people and places
- Indoor GPS:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Indoor GPS that works similarly for the indoors as outdoors
- Improved Mall and Store Shopping Experiences
Through Creativity and Technology, so more people shop in
store for social fun rather than more often online:
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Improved Mall and Store Shopping Made More Fun With
Technology and Creativity
- Products that Allow us to Control Whether or
Not We Are Eavesdropped Upon in the name of security when
we have done nothing wrong!
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Products that Allow us to control whether or not we
are eavesdropped upon in the name of security when we
have done nothing wrong!
- Plants in Public that promote good health
especially for allergy sufferers
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Plants in Public that promote good health especially
for allergy sufferers
- More Natural Solutions to Health Problems
Than Drugs When It Makes Sense
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
More Natural Solutions to Health Problems Than Drugs
When It Makes Sense
- Debates Backed By Data Analysis Geared Toward
Presenting For Budgets in Economies or Business
Link
Description of Brainstorm idea NOT followed,
Debates Backed By Data Analysis Geared Toward
Presenting For Budgets in Economies or Business
Fiction Recommender Social Web Site, the project that we
pursued instead of the above rather spontaneous brain storm
of ideas from me! Lead by Amber Chang, her idea for this
class project.
Business Model Canvas
For Fiction Recommender Web Site Class Project for
Technical Entrepreneur Part 1
Opportunity Analysis Project (OAP) for Technical Entrepreneur Part 1 Class
Project, with project survey, project team web site with video of
slides and write up analysis of these
You Tube Video of Slides for Low Fidelity FicRec Prototype
FicRec Project Team Web Site With Video of Slides
FicRec Story Board Sketch Plans for Making the Video of Slides
FicRec Potential Customer Survey
FicRec Survey Responses in Pie Chart Summary Style
FicRec
Survey Responses From Potential Customers Spread Sheet Style
- For this project, we tested
whether the start up we proposed was worth pursuing and if
customers would like and agree with the problem we were
solving.
- This allowed us to articulate the process for taking this
idea and finding high potential commercial
application.
- We learned to create and verify a plan for gathering
resources such as talent and capital as well as creating
and verifying a business model for how to sell and
market the idea.
- We learned to generalize the process
of the entrepreneur mind set of turning problems into
opportunities that can be used in larger companies and
other settings.
- An evolutionary idea if
successful as a start up would be bought by a larger
company.
- A revolutionary idea if successful in
a start up would become the next big
company.
- Other topics included:
- frameworks
- life cycles
- diffusion
- university technical transfer
- lawyer roles
- and customer and entrepreneur
interviews.
