Developing a Technology Based Business: Entrepreneurship and Intrepreneurship:

Homework: (most recent first)

Week 11: December 10 th

Review section 17 in the class notes. Do the quiz. Score it yourself. e-mail me a paragraph about what you learned from taking the test.

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Week 10: December 3 rd

Read (review) the class notes. (Yes, The Whole Book). Make notes on anything that you don'e understand, that needs clarification. Read and review the handouts on Generic Business Plans, Raising Money, etc. Prepare a few intelligent questions for the speaker. E-mail me with 2 questions about something that needs clarification.

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Week 9: November 26th

Read the leadership exercise in the case study section of the notes. Write-up the speech for Columbus. Be prepared to give it in class.

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Week 8: November 19th

With a partner, journey to a public place. (e.g. Harvard Square). Approach 30 people, and ask them for at least $1.00. You may tell them anything you want. Write up what you learned.

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Week 7: November 5th

Read the 4 case studies in the back of the book. Pick one, and with a partner (groups of 2), evaluate the opportunity against the Opportunity recognition screen. Decide if you would invest or not. Why. What would have to change to make it an attractive opportunity. What tools did you use to make this assessment? Write it up. 2 pages.

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Week 6: October 29th

Pick a project for which you have a customer, and a lot of work. (Thesis would be great). Write down what you have to get done, and the number of hours it will take. Meet with your customer and ask the 17 questions for a strong contract. (see project management section of book). After clarifying the contract, write up the changes to what you had expected. (Change in the deliverable, change in the amount of time). Write it up. One page.

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Week 5: October 22th

Write down 3 projects you have been involved in. Do a risk analysis of these 3 projects, using the standard project risks. (Modify them to fit your world, if necessary). Identify where each project had the highest risk. What could you have done to reduce the risk? Write it up

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Week 4: October 15th

Do the MAAA exercize in the book (section 7, pages 8-9, or click here). List 7-10 attributes that are important to you about a job, and give them a weighting. Rate the 5 job opportunities, and calculate the weighted product for each. Write up the results and e-mail to me.

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Week 3: October 1nd

Call your Father (mother) and discuss success with him. Ask him if he views himself as successful. If yes, when did he realize it. If no, wheat event would it take. Ask him what his father did for a living. Write it up. 1 page.

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Week 2: Sept 24th

Fill out the Customer profile for the 5 "Most Important" people in your MIT life that you wrote down in class. Visit with EACH of them this week, talk a bit and see how much additional information about their personnal lives you can obtain. Write it down when you leave.

Send me an e-mail about the experience, and what you learned about collecting "stroke material"

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Week 1: Sept 10th

Do the self tests at http://www.morgantraining.com/web/prework

Register as a Guest.

Bring the results to class. Have a friend who knows you well take the tests "for you". See how the results compare to your own assessment.

Write up what you learned, send it to me by e-mail

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