Entrepreneurship & Innovation Project 2024
Week-5: Tuesday, 13th of February & Thursday, 15th of February
Week-5 of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project course will focus on More Financial Statements; Introduction to Large Language Models for Geospatial Analysis and Entrepreneurship; and High-Level Product Specification.
Week-5, Lesson 5: Introduction to Investor Communications through Financial Statements; Bill of Materials and Product Planning; & Even More Financial Projections
Key Themes for Week 5:
Communicating with Investors Through Financial Statements
Chaining Strategies with LLMs
High-Level Product Specification for Minimum Viable Product
The Grander Commercial Implications of LLMs
Why the Promise of AI is So Appealing to Businesses
Student Assignment for Week-5:
Students will work in-class to draft their initial Business Plan and Financial Projections Outline as a Team; at the start of Week 5, they will also work together to prepare a Rapid-Fire Verbal Pitch of their initial Business Plan Outline.
Hardware and Software Labs for Week-5:
- Tuesday Lab: Introduction to Large Language Models for Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements for Investors
- Thursday Lab 1: Large Language Models
- Thursday Lab 2: Capacitive Touch Sensors and Fingerprint Recognition and Barometric Pressure Sensors.
Key Readings for Week 5:
Disciplined Entrepreneurship, Pages 91-120
Creating a High-Level Product Specification
Spiraling Innovation
Quantifying the Value Proposition
Identify Your Next 10 Customers
Dealing with Negative Feedback
Development As Freedom, Page 189-226
Individual Agency and Well-Being
Child Survival and the Agency of Women
Population, Food and Freedom
Empowering of Young Women
Soul of a New Machine, Pages 164-205
Understanding and Producing a Minimum Viable Product (Chapter 10)
Keeping Your Technical Team Happy Before Product Launch (Chapter 11)
Keeping a Calm Head Before Product Launch (Chapter 12)