ROP Business

About your teacher:

• my schedule
• the origins of the Nest cafe
• why I love CCA
• my promise to you

About you.

• Why are you here?  What would you like to learn?
• Tonight I will ask you to answer a few questions about yourself
• e-mail me your responses as if you were writing to a potential investor 
• Start thinking about how you add value to our team

Our Big Goal: Come up with an idea

• What is the problem you want to solve?
• Who experiences that problem?
• How you want to solve that problem?
• Why is this a better solution?

Class Structure

• 2: Introductory Business Skills 
• 13: Building an idea and launching a business
• 4: Nest internship and takeover
• 2: pitch competition, business recap competition, shark tank competion
• 2: Interview skills, resumé building, branding

Let's test your business acumen:
the Lamborghini problem

How much do you know?

Entrepreneurs must love risk to be successful.

Focus is dangerous for entrepreneurs. You may miss opportunities.

Charisma is one of the biggest determinants of an entrepreneur's success

When you have an idea for a venture, you should postpone talking to prospective users or customers for as long as possible, for they could stifle your creative process.

Early in your venture you should pursue as many markets for your idea as possible so as to maximize the odds and extent of your success.

Entrepreneurs should always attack the biggest possible market for their idea.

When you have an idea for a venture, the very first thing you generally want to do is build the product and start testing it with prospective users. This is better than interviewing and learning about the users first, because without seeing the product, the users would not offer valuable feedback anyway.

As an innovator, always distrust customer feedback. No one can predict the future. Prospective customers are not the best people to tell you what product they'll like from you in the future.

Entrepreneurs tend to be undisciplined. Discipline is counter-productive in the face of the inherently chaotic process of entrepreneurship.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both went to Harvard. Clearly, entrepreneurs tend to be high achievers academically.

Entrepreneurs are born.

What is entrepreneurship?

Online Classroom

Index cards

Activity:

Shark Tank

Homework 1:
Check chufo.weebly.com


answer questions
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