| Week Commencing | Key Lectures | Software & Hardware Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Week-1 16 & 18 January 2024 | How to think about and order social and scientific information as a basis for an entrepreneurial idea. | Introduction to personal blog reflections & Intro to Makerspace and TinkerCAD, Entrepreneurship Example Projects |
| Week-2 23 & 25 Jan | What is Team-Based Entrepreneurship? What is a Business Plan? | Introduction to Geospatial Analysis; Smartphone Dissection - Raspberry Pi Introduction – Grove Ecosystem – Touchscreens -Switches and LED’s lab |
| Week-3 30 January & 01 February 2024 | Selling Things; Business Budgeting Fundamentals; Introduction to Customer Relations Management; Introduction Altman Z-Score; & Introduction to Product and Business Model Innovation. | Creating and working with Financial Statements; & Arduino Introduction – Haptic Buzzers with Pancake Motors and IMU’s (compass, gyro, accelerometer, magnetometers) |
| Week-4 06 & 08 February 2024 | Understanding Direct Cost of Sales (How much did the product or service cost to produce? How much Profit did the company make from having used resources to sell the product/service? Did they make a profit or loss? What is a good profit?); More Altman Z-Score (Understanding Macro Financial Implications for Entrepreneurship) in terms of Market Research. | Hardware from "The Soul of A New Machine" ; & Pi Picos with rotary angle sensors and buzzers. |
| Week-5 13 & 15 February 2024 | Introduction to Investor Pitches, Large Language Models for Geospatial Analysis and for Hardware; Even More Financial Projections (Understanding Rapid Prototypes for Minimum Viable Product). | More Large Language Models for Informatics Entrepreneurship; Capacitive touch sensors and fingerprint recognition and barometric pressure sensors. |
| Reading Week 20 & 22 February 2024 | NO Lectures. | NO Labs. |
| Week-6 27 & 29 February 2024 | Business Plan Elements & Core Corporate Processes & Raising Investment Fundamentals & More Selling Things (Investment Agreements, Articles of Associations, & Term Sheets). Financial Statements Test. | More Geo-spatial analysis; & Power and charging. |
| Week-7 05 & 07 March 2024 | High-level product specifications & More thinking about Value propositions for Market Segments & Demonstrating Your First 10 Customers. | Even More Geo-Spatial Analysis; & Cameras, facial recognition. |
| Week-8 12 & 13 March 2024 | Test Key Assumptions & Set Your Pricing Framework & Product Testing for Geo-location Technology & More Selling Things (Sustainable Thinking and Economic Thinking for a Convincing Business Plan). | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4G/5G plus Chip shortage RPI’s, new chipset, new OS, new firmware obsolete peripherals. HP, IBM, car industry having priority access to IC’s. |
| Week-9 19 & 21 March 2024 | The Video Customer/Investor Pitch (Team Work Commercial Advertisement?) & Social Choice of Business Models & Selling High Quality Products. | Fusion360. |
| Week-10 26 & 28 March 2024 | Business Plan Website Feedback & Geospatial Interfaces for Hardware & Small Language Models & Business Budgeting Fundamental Revisited & Review of 24-Steps & Value Proposition Revisited. | Audio, Microphones and Speakers. |
| Week-11 02 & 04 April 2024 | Group In-Person Business Pitches & Video Pitches & Business Plan Websites Due. | Product Launch and Websites Completed |
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