CS683/KEP500: Technology Entrepreneurship - Resources

Resources

Textbooks

• Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship.” Wiley, 2013.
• Dan Olsen, “The Lean Product Playbook. How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback.” Wiley, 2015.
• Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, “Business Model Generation.” Wiley, 2010.

Other Books

Entrepreneurship Methodologies and Workbooks

• Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook.” Wiley, 2017.
• Steven G. Blank, “The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Successful Strategies for Products that Win.” Lulu, 2006 (pdf).
• Eric Ries, “The Lean Startup.” Penguin, 2011.
• Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz, "Sprint. How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days." Bantam Press, 2016.

Case Studies

• Ben Horowitz, “The Hard Thing about Hard Things.” Harper Business, 2014.
• Kai-Fu Lee. "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
• Clayton Christensen, “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change).” Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
• Brad Stone, “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.” Corgi, 2014.
• Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” Virgin Books, 2015.
• Steven Levy. "In the Plex." Simon & Schuster, 2011.
• Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary. "Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You." W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
• Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace. "Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration." Random House 2014.

Ideation, Prototyping, Innovation Management

• Laura Klein, “UX for Lean Startups.” O’Reilly, 2013.
• Tim Brown, “Change by Design.” Harper Collins, 2009.
• Tom Kelley and David Kelley, “Creative Confidence.” Harper Collins, 2014.

Articles, Reports, Blogs etc

General

• Silicon Valley's lexicon explained (The Guardian).
• A brief history of Salesforce and key lessons for B2B.

Intellectual Property

• Inventor's Handbook by the European Patent Office.
• Intellectual Property Licensing Bulletin No. 1, EU IP Helpdesk (June 2019).
• 4iP Council.

Funding

• Raising Seed Capital? Here’s Your 2018 Guide on How To Do It Successfully. by Pahul Signh.
• Top 4 mistakes when taking VC funding, Venturebeat 2019.
• What VC funds wish your startup knew about their selection process, The Next Web, 2019.

Pitching

• The art of the Elevator Pitch. Harvard Business Review.
• How to write the best pitch deck?
• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch by Guy Kawasaki.

Tools and Online platforms

Innovation Management

• Continuous innovation platform: Leanstack.
• Strategyzer: Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition.
• Launchpad Central for Lean Innovation.
• Review SimpleMind for ideation.

Collaboration, Coordination, Process Management

• Trello: A platform for team management.
• Slack: A platform for group communication.
• Process.st: A simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures.
• Google Meet, Google Hangouts, and Skype for group, video communications.

Equity, Finances, Pricing, Advertising

• Startup Equity Calculator.
• Venture Capital Calculator.
• Pricing worksheet.
• Ad Spend Calculator by QWILR.

Cloud Computing, Rapid Prototyping

• Heroku, a Cloud Application platform.
• Rapid App Prototyping with Proto.io.
• Scrum and agile.

Videos

• James Mi '92: Entrepreneurship and VC Investments in China, YouTube, 2018.
• Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation - The Coming AI Upheaval, Youtube, 2019.
• Understanding and Designing for People, by Sheila Pontis, at the Keller Center for Entrepreneurship, Princeton University, February 2019.

Online Courses and Resources

• Startup Playbook by Sam Altman, Y Combinator.
• Startup class by Sam Altman, Y Combinator (2014, Stanford University).
• Y Combinator's Startup School Platform.
• forEntrepreneurs. Blog by David Skok.
• Online Startup School Library by Y Combinator.
• Venture Hacks. Advice for startups.
• Stanford School of Business videos.
• Techcrunch.
• European Patent Office (EPO) e-Learning centre.
• European IP Helpdesk Library.
• Inventors' handbook, European Patent Office.
• Entrepreneurs' handbook.
• Startup guide.
• The Business Model Canvas course at Coursera.
• Andreessen Horowitz Newsletter.