Welcome to Foundations of Entrepreneurship

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Hope you enjoyed your summer!

Some notes

• There are no required textbooks• Course content hosted on

profcraigarmstrong.wikispaces.com• Course communication via

NVDBAMA@gmail.com• You will receive an email containing a quiz each

Thursday afternoon for 10 weeks starting next week

• How about that syllabus?

Main frameworks

• Lean startup• Customer development• Business model canvas

Tools

• Stickies and Sharpies• Google Adwords• Landing pages• Google docs / forms• Google analytics• Wordpress / Google sites

Themes

• How to be a successful “non-technical” founder

• Education technology

Philosophy

• Entrepreneurship is Ø^©«ing cool• There has never been a better time to

be an entrepreneur• Ideas are a dime a dozen• Bias toward action• Experiments!• 21st century entrepreneurship• Everyone can learn how to pitch• Turn your work in when it’s due• Talk to me – don’t let crap overwhelm

you