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Lectures Notes
   
 

Session 1
Richard Coyne

Download Richard's slides here

 
   
 

Session 2
Alison M. Ross
Cameron Leask
Mike Clouser

Download Alison's handout here

   
   
 

Session 3
Sean Foote

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Session 4
Kenneth Hess

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Session 5
Jessica Hardwick

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Reading List
   

Bootstrap: Lessons Learned in Build a Successful Company from Scratch
By: Kenneth L. Hess

   
CyberBusiness, Mindsets for a Wired Age. By: C. Barnatt

CyberBusiness, Mindsets for a Wired Age
By: C. Barnatt

 
   
Multimedia Marketing for Design Firms. By: C. Charles and K. Brown

Multimedia Marketing for Design Firms
By: C. Charles and K. Brown

 
   
Electronic Business Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21 st Century. By:Peter Cunningham and Friedrich Fröschl

Electronic Business Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21 st Century
By:Peter Cunningham and Friedrich Fröschl

 
   
Technology Ventures: From Idea to Entreprise.  By: Richard C. Dorf and Tom Byers

Technology Ventures: From Idea to Entreprise
By: Richard C. Dorf and Tom Byers

   
High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. By: Charles Ferguson

High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
By: Charles Ferguson

   
Computers in the Human Context: Information, echnology, Productivity and People. By: T. Forester

Computers in the Human Context: Information, echnology, Productivity and People
By: T. Forester

 
   
The Road Ahead. By: Bill Gates

The Road Ahead
By: Bill Gates

 
   
The Consequences of Modernity. By: A. Giddens

The Consequences of Modernity
By: A. Giddens

 
   
The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer. By: Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Turoff Murray

The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer
By: Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Turoff Murray

 
 
The Monk and the Riddle. By: Randy Komisar

The Monk and the Riddle
By: Randy Komisar

   
E-topia. by: William J. Mitchell

E-topia
By: William J. Mitchell

 
   
Crossing the Chasm . By:Geoffrey Moore

Crossing the Chasm
By:Geoffrey Moore

   

The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan. By: John Mullins

The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
By: John Mullins

   

High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated : The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies. By: John Nesheim

High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
By: John Nesheim

   
Digital Architect: A Common-Sense Guide to Using Computer Technology in Design Practice. By: K. Sanders

Digital Architect: A Common-Sense Guide to Using Computer Technology in Design Practice
By: K. Sanders

 

Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization. By: L. Sproull and S. Kiesler

Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organization
By: L. Sproull and S. Kiesler
   
World Wide Web Marketing: Integrating the Internet into your Marketing Strategy. By: J. Stern
World Wide Web Marketing: Integrating the Internet into your Marketing Strategy
By: J. Stern
 
   
Weird Ideas that Work . By: Robert I. Sutton

Weird Ideas that Work
By: Robert I. Sutton

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New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - 6th Edition.  By: Jeffrey Timmons

New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - 6th Edition
By: Jeffrey Timmons

   
Downloadable Resources
 
The New Business Road Test. By: John Mullins
The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
By: John Mullins
Chapter 1, “My Opportunity: Why Will or Won’t This Work?”
   
The Monk and the Riddle

The Monk and the Riddle
By: Randy Komisar

 

Download the e-book here

 

 
Library Info

The following books are available in the Edinburgh-Stanford Link library and can be borrowed Monday - Friday between 10:00 & 16:30 for two hours. When a book is checked out at 15:00, it can be kept overnight, and returned by 10:00 next working day. Books can be borrowed from the address below:
The Edinburgh-Stanford Link
University of Edinburgh
The basement
3 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9TA
Scotland , UK

 
   
The New Business Road Test  By: John Mullins
The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
By: John Mullins
 
   
The Monk and the Riddle
The Monk and the Riddle
By: Randy Komisar
 
   
Crossing the Chasm. By: Geoffrey A. Moore
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers
By: Geoffrey A. Moore
 
   
Technology Ventures: From Idea to Entreprise
Technology Ventures: From Idea to Entreprise
By: Richard C. Dorf and Tom Byers
 
   
The High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Handbook – How to Start and Run a High-Tech Company
The High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Handbook – How to Start and Run a High-Tech Company
By: Jack Lang
 
 
High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. By: Charles Ferguson
High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
By: Charles Ferguson
 
   
The High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Handbook – How to Start and Run a High-Tech Company
High-tech Ventures: A Guide for Entrepreneurial Success
By: C.Gordon Bell
 
   
New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - 5th Edition
By: Jeffrey Timmons
 
   
Six Thinking Hats
By: Edward de Bono
 
   
Hoe the Web Was Born. By: Gillies & Cailliau
How the Web Was Born
By: Gillies & Cailliau
 
   

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
By: James Wallace & Jim Erickson

 
   
   
Online Content
   
Weird Ideas that Work. By: Robert I. Sutton

Weird Ideas that Work
By: Robert I. Sutton

 

View an extract here

   
 

Entrepreneurs: Social Heros not Solo Heros

View an the article here

   

 

A series of video lectures taken at NUS

View an the video here

Videoclips
The following files format is "WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER" (.WMV) files format.
More relevant videos are available in Informatics Entrepreneurship course website here & here
   
 

Session 4
- Kenneth Hess

 
   
 

Session 5
- Jessica Hardwick

 
   
 

Guidelines for writing a Business plan
- Mike Clouser

Other Useful Resources
   
 

Innovator's Scheme: A scheme aimed at entrepreneurs with creative ideas who want to set up a business in the UK, especially in the areas of science and technology

Visit the website here

   
 

Fresh Talent Scotland: New work permit regulations

Visit the website here
New updates here

   
 

Shell LiveWIRE: Helping 16-30 year old to start and develop their own business

Visit the website here

 
   
 

Accel Perspectives: Advice for First Time Entrepreneurs

Visit the website here

 
   
 

STVP Educators Corner (the Stanford Technology Ventures Program)

Visit the website here

   
 

High-Technology Entrepreneurship

Visit the website here

   
 

Geoff Gregson's Advised Online Startup Resources

UK Start-Up Resources:

1- Starting a New Venture in Scotland: Scottish Enterprise Business Gateway
2- Business Mentoring: Scottish Enterprise
3- Help for New Businesses: UK Department of Trade and Industry
4- How to Register a New Company in the UK/Scotland; Companies House
5- The Company Secretary’s Handbook by Helen Ashton (currently 30% off at Amazon - £10.49)
6- Intellectual Property and Registration; UK Patent Office
7- Company and Market Research Resource

Other Start-up Resources:

1- Thinking of Starting a Business? Are You Ready? Government of Canada
2- The Wall Street Journal Centre for Entrepreneurs
3- IRS Business Start-up Workshop: For Starting a Business in the US
4- Entrepreneur.Com
5- US Patent Office

   
 

Starting a Business: ten reasons new businesses fail

Visit the website here

 
   
 

Satellite Business Plan Competition: Sat-nav looks to smart ideas

Visit the website here

 

 

 

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