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Session 1
Mike Clouser
John Lee
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Session 2
Ralph Clarke
Liza Sutherland
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Session 3
Mike Clouser
Graeme Bryce
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Session 4
Adam Burdess
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Session 5
Jamie Urquhart
David Cremin
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Field Trip
Innovation Centres (Scotland)
Bridgeall Technology
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Session 6
Richard O'Connor
Grant Wheeler
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Session 7
Bill Joos
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Session 8
Alex Ogilvie
Tom Byers
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Session 9
Sandy McKinnon
Geoffrey Thompson
Mike Clouser
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Session 10
Mike Clouser
Chris Martin
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We recommend that you purchase both of these books for you will be using them extensively, both in and out of class. All the required books are available at Blackwell's in South Bridge (Near Old College), alternatively, they can be purchased at AMAZON.CO.UK |
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Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise
By: Richard C. Dorf and Tom Byers
Download the preface
Download the Forward
Download chapter 1
Download the Glossary
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Paperback: Dimensions (in inches):
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 15, 2004)
ISBN: 0073044660
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Technology Ventures is the first textbook to thoroughly examine a global phenomenon known as “technology entrepreneurship.” Entrepreneurship represents a vital source of change in all facets of society, empowering individuals to seek opportunity where others see insurmountable problems. Technology entrepreneurship is a style of business leadership that involves identifying high-potential, technology-intensive commercial opportunities, gathering resources such as talent and capital, and managing rapid growth and significant risks using principled decision-making skills. The book integrates the most valuable entrepreneurship and technology management theories from some of the world’s leading scholars and educators. It provides an action-oriented approach through the use of examples, exercises, cases, sample business plans, and recommended sources for more information. This comprehensive collection of concepts and applications provides both students and professionals with the tools necessary for success in starting and growing a technology enterprise. Technology Ventures details the critical differences between scientific ideas and true business opportunities.
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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?”
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Paperback: 288 pages; Dimensions (in inches):
0.8 x 6.0 x 9.0
Publisher: Financial Times Prentice Hall;
(September 13, 2004)
ISBN: 0273663569
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**Please download the eBook version:
Students are required to read the ENTIRE book by September 29th, it should take less than five hours to read. The author will be speaking to us on September 29th.
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So you have a business idea. How can you assess whether it will work? Whether it is worth backing by investors, and worth backing with your future?
The New Business Road Test shows you how to test your idea before writing your business plan. It will help you to make sure that the business you build is based on a winning idea, enabling you to invest your time wisely and pitch to investors and customers with confidence.
Building on lessons learned by studying numerous entrepreneurs and investors, John Mullins sets out a practical framework for evaluating new business ideas. The book identifies seven domains for the assessment of any market opportunity and guides you through how to test and improve your idea. Above all, it will help you to answer the essential question of whether your idea is worth a business plan and worthy of a successful enterprise.
No budding entrepreneur should leave the day-job or face an investor without having read this book.
"The New Business Road Test is a great read: thought-provoking, and not 'business-lite' like so much entrepreneurial advice. It's also digestible for a manager in the thick of things, something many books overlook. The questions John Mullins asks are relevant to new ventures and existing businesses looking to move forward, and this book will help you do just that. " Max Aitken Chief Executive, Ratio One
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The Monk and the Riddle
By: Randy Komisar
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The following books are available in the main library. They are also available in the course 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
3a` Buccleuch Place
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The New Business Road Test: What Entrepreneurs and Executives Should Do Before Writing a Business Plan
By: John Mullins
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Crossing the Chasm:
Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream
Customers
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Geoffrey A. Moore
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Technology Ventures: From Idea to Entreprise
By: Richard C. Dorf and Tom Byers
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The High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Handbook – How to Start and Run a High-Tech Company
By: Jack Lang
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High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
By: Charles Ferguson
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High-tech Ventures: A Guide for Entrepreneurial Success
By: C.Gordon Bell
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New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - 5th Edition
By: Jeffrey Timmons
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Six Thinking Hats
By: Edward de Bono
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How the Web Was Born
By: Gillies & Cailliau
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
By: James Wallace & Jim Erickson
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Information Age Magazine
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These books are available in the main library, alternatively, they can be purchased at AMAZON.CO.UK |
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Bootstrap: Lessons Learned in Build a Successful Company from Scratch
By: Kenneth L. Hess
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Crossing the Chasm
By:Geoffrey Moore
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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
By: Randall Stross
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Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley
By: Steward C. Gillmore
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High Stakes, No Prisoners : A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars
By: Charles Ferguson
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High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated : The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies
By: John Nesheim
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International Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Beyond: Doing the Deal
By: David J. BenDaniel
Read the book discription here
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New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century - 6th Edition
By: Jeffrey Timmons
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Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
By: Howard Schultz
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Start Small, Finish Big: 15 Key Lessons to Start – and Run – Your Own Successful Business
By: Fred Deluca, and John P. Hayes
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The Beermat Entrepreneur: What You Really Need to Know to Turn a Good Idea into a Great Business
By: Mike Southon, Chris West
Read about the book here
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The Business Case for E-Learning
By: Tom Kelly, Nader Nanjiani
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The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad
By: Michael A. Cusumano
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The High-Tech Entrepreneur’s Handbook – How to Start and Run a High-Tech Company
By: Jack Lang
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The Monk and the Riddle
By: Randy Komisar
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The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create it, Build it, and Use it to Maximum Effect
By: John Nesheim
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Weird Ideas that Work
By: Robert I. Sutton
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VC blog links
1- The J Curve
2- Venture Blog
3- Allen's Blog
4- Venture Chronicles by Jeff Nolan
5- Beyond VC
6- Seeing Both Sides
7- VC Adventure
8- VC Ball
9- Who Has Time For This
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Weird Ideas that Work
By: Robert I. Sutton
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Entrepreneurs: Social Heros not Solo Heros
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A series of video lectures taken at NUS
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Session 1
- Mike Clouser
- John Lee
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Session 2
- Ralph Clarke
- Liza Sutherland
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Session 3
- Graeme Bryce
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Session 4
- Adam Burdess
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Session 5
- Jamie Urquhart
- David Cremin
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Session 6
- Grant Wheeler
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Session 7
- Bill Joos
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Session 8
- Alex Ogilvie
- Tom Byers
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Session 9
- Sandy McKinnon
- Geoffrey Thompson
- Mike Clouser
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Session 10
- Mike Clouser
- Chris Martin
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STVP Educators Corner (the Stanford Technology Ventures Program)
Visit the website here
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship
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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
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