Case Studies in Computing-Based Entrepreneurship

Take Aways

• The pure desire for money is not the only thing!
• The most important factor for a startup: timing.

• Guest speakers
  • Across different computing-based needs & solutions
  • Across different levels of maturity
  • Different geographic locations
  • Different approaches to financing
  • When and how to impact for good

Concepts

• IPO
• Stock Option
• Capitalization Table
• Fund Raising

Lectures

• Venture Capital
• Surveillance Capitalism
• Corporations
• Business Model Canvas
• Lean Canvas

Guest Speakers

• Starfire
• Hallow
• Trek10
• Hover
• Plural Policy
• Nick Petroni: Veloxity

Podcasts

• Bumble: Whitney Wolfe
• reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
• LearnVest: Alexa von Tobel
• Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
• Promise Pay: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
• Calendly: Tope Awotona

BMC Assignment

• Examples of final videos for BMC of Trek10
  • Catherine Evans
  • Connor Delaney
  • Nikita Tsyganov