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 * New Venture Development Winter Session - All Years - Make sure you choose the correct section! **

For Winter Interim Session MGT 482-582 2017
The syllabus explains course content, deliverables, and policies. **Link to syllabus in google doc for MGT 482-582 Winter Interim 2017 ( ** <-- NOTE: THIS IS **NOT** THE SYLLABUS FOR MGT 582 HUNTSVILLE EMBA).

For HUNTSVILLE EXECUTIVE MBA Sessions

 * See google doc link here for your syllabus (NOT THE ONE FOR THE OTHER COURSE BELOW **). By the way, until 4:40 pm 1/5/16 I was not aware that this link went to the syllabus for the 2015 course . Thanks to those of you who pointed out the old link.

=Professor = Craig Armstrong, Ph.D. Email for routine course deliverables and communications: NVDBAMA@gmail.com Office and phone: 155 Alston Hall, 348-8919 Email for correspondence upon completion of course: carmstro@cba.ua.edu or profcraigarmstrong@gmail.com Course wiki (source for schedules, topics, lecture materials, etc.): http://profcraigarmstrong.wikispaces.com My cell phone: 205-394-7499 - use this for **texting** if email is not working for you. You can text me to see if I'm available to talk on the phone, too. Do not call me "out of the blue." =Graded Activities and Points = There are four major sets of topics in this course: (1) before the startup, (2) opportunities, (3) competition, and (4) developing the new venture. Each link for these major topics below takes you to a wiki page that presents all the content, activities, and relevant links for completing that topic.
 * Student Work Cloud for New Venture Development **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Part 1. Before the Startup - 15 points
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">What's your entrepreneurial temperament? (Take the survey, send me a PDF of the results = 5 points) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">Financial statements (Read the material and take an online quiz = 5 points) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Before the Startup (Paul Graham, Y Combinator) (Quiz = 5 points)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5;">**Part 2. Opportunities - 30 points**
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">Attributes of opportunities (Read/view content and take an online quiz = 5 points); <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Webvan collapse - Opportunity evaluation and exploitation (Read the case and respond to discussion questions from a google form = 5 points) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Robert Reiss - opportunity exploitation for a product not a company (Read the case and respond <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">to discussion questions from a google form = 5 points) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Proof Eyewear - opportunity and investment evaluation (Read and respond = 5 points) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px;">Write an opportunity register for an entrepreneurial opportunity - you will use this opportunity as the basis of your work in Part 4, "Developing the New Venture" = 10 points

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5;">Part 3. Competition - 5 points
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Competition is for losers (Peter Thiel, Y Combinator series) ( <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px;">Read/view content and take an online q <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">uiz = 5 points)

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.5;">**Part** **4. Developing the New Venture - 50 points**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Specific to developing YOUR new venture **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Create a customer persona for your entrepreneurial opportunity = 5 points
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Value Proposition Canvas (Prepare a value proposition canvas for an opportunity you identified above = 5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Create a hypothesis and develop an experiment loop for testing the hypothesis (5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Create a minimum viable product or minimum feature set to represent your unique value proposition (5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">REVISE your original opportunity register based on what you've learned from your persona, VP canvas, hypothesis development, and MVP (5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">General topics for developing a new venture **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">How to build products that delight customers (WuFoo, Y Combinator series) (Quiz = 5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">How to Raise Money (Marc Andreessen, Y Combinator series) (Quiz = 5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">The Importance of Vision and Culture (Alfred Lin, Former COO, Zappos and Partner, Sequoia Capital; Brian Chesky, Founder, Airbnb) (Quiz = 5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">How to Manage (Ben Horowitz, Y Combinator series) (Quiz = 5 points)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Legal and accounting issues (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy,Partners, Y Combinator series) (Quiz = 5 points)

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