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April 24 and 26 Business plan team presentations
 * ===** Week 16 **===

**April 24**
 * Just Beer Me
 * Creatives Collaborate
 * Fridgenerator

**April 26** **The rest of you**

** Week 15 **
April 17 and 19
 * Exam 2 scores are posted to eLearning (9:20pm, 4/19)**

** Exam II Materials - I will write questions solely from these slides **

[[file:Exam II materials MGT 386 Spring 2012.ppt]]

 * **April 17** - Exam 2 Prep
 * **April 18 - Check your email accounts for a practice exam**
 * **April 19 - Exam 2 - //Probably// 50 questions**

** Week 14 **
Students' perceived barriers to entrepreneurship Spring 2012 (posted 4/12) **In-Class work on team projects - come to class ready to work on business plans - I expect major progress on your plans today!**
 * April 12 **


 * April 10**

**Resolving team assignments....** **Google docs template - emailed to you in editable format** Exemplar Business Plan: Seahorse Power Business Plan Template and Scoring Weights In-class presentation evaluation A student plan that did pretty well

** Week 13 **
=== ** April 6 (note extended deadline from April 5: Third and final opportunity register due - Submit Opportunity Register 3 - Spring 2012 - //This one is graded//** ===

** April 3 and 5 **
Some comments about opportunity registers:
 * April 3 **
 * You can recycle **AND REVISE** one of your first two registers
 * Some students confuse profits with revenues; don't be that student
 * If you think your idea is scalable to a national or global market, think first about how you would launch it on a more modest budget to test your assumptions. How much would you have to invest to get it started, what are your COGS, and how much can you earn in revenues?
 * Some students omit cost assumptions; you must assume both revenues and costs and make defensible assumptions
 * Come up with an estimate of how much you would make in some finite time period (revenues and net income) - is it worth it?

Team Assignments and business planning

Chapter 12 - Legal and tax issues What is a Regulation D offering?

Chapter 13 - Intellectual property
 * April 5**
 * Read: Chapter 13 and Tim Paterson
 * Protect your product's look and feel from imitators
 * Example of Trademark protection efforts - "certain foam footwear" (ITC, 2006)
 * USPTO report on Intellectual Property and the US Economy (March, 2012)

March 27 and 29
 * Week 12**

The Working Capital Cycle explained!

Chapter 10 - Raising money for starting and growing businesses Facebook Form S-1 Registration Statement (Look especially at Risk Factors and Capitalization) Text Link

Chapter 11 - Debt and other forms of financing March 20 and 22 Chapter 8 - Building your pro forma financial statements **March 22: Second opportunity register due - Submit Opportunity Register 2 - Spring 2012**
 * Week 11**

**March 22:** Chapter 9 - Financing entrepreneurial ventures

March 13 and 15 Submit your favorite entrepreneurship-themed pictures from spring break!
 * Week 10**
 * Spring Break**

March 6
 * Week 9**

Chapter 7 - The business planning process March 8 - Out of class assignment - Autoshop business plan critique - do not come to class on this day.

February 28 and March 1
 * Week 8**

Chapter 6 - Building the founding team @Building the Founding Team

//Revised Exam 1 scores have been posted to eLearning (2/29)//

**March 1: First opportunity register due - Submit Opportunity Register 1 - Spring 2012**

"Occupy Leap Day"

February 21 and 23
 * Week 7**

Pitches

[|Even more advice on pitching]


 * February 23 - Student pitches **
 * Record you pitch on video in class with my fleet of Flip Videos or record yourself with your webcam. [This is supposed to be fun] **


 * Week 6**

=== Note: Your $10 business experience reports are due on Monday, 2/20. You can submit this assignment using the form in the email I sent to you or by using this link. ===

Fifth and final $10 business diary entry due by midnight, 2/17 Chapter 5 - Entrepreneurial marketing
 * February 14 and 16**

Spring 2012 Exam I Results

Couture Chaos Amanda Perna



Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool (1:11:20)

February 16 Pre-lecture feelgood Exam I Supplemental media type="custom" key="12519176" Guerrilla Marketing

February 7 and 9 Fourth $10 business diary entry due by midnight, 2/10
 * Week 5**

Chapter 4 - Understanding your business model and developing your strategy Chapter 4 slides

Business Models Business Model Generation

**Exam 1 - February 9** Slides for Exam 1

Here's a MGT 386 practice exam Results of MGT 386 Spring Practice Exam 1 (so far)


 * Week 4**

Third $10 business diary entry due by midnight, 2/3

coming soon
 * February 2**


 * January 31**


 * Before:**
 * Read Chapter 3 of text


 * In class:**

Exercise: Environmental Influences Worksheet Chapter 3 - Opportunity recognition, shaping, and re-shaping Value Chain of Gourmet Chili Exercise: Target Audience Worksheet

Homework: Retirement Home of the Future (live link afternoon, January 31)

January 24 and 26 Second $10 business diary entry due by midnight, 1/27
 * Week 3**

Ecopreneuring - Rent a Green Box Opportunity Register - Tuscaloosa Karaoke

Chapter 2 - The entrepreneurial process

More pitches*
 * For January 26**
 * Before:**
 * **Homework due at beginning of class on 1/26** - Opportunity reshaping assignment
 * Reading assignment in advance of January 26 lecture
 * In class**
 * See the results of your opportunity re-shaping for Tuscaloosa Karaoke!
 * Write your own pitch for Tuscaloosa Karaoke
 * How to pitch a brilliant idea (Elsbach, HBR, 2003)[[file:How to pitch a brilliant idea.ppt]]
 * @Maid to Order (8:14)
 * The Wand Company (12:00)

Live Chat with Billionaire Entrepreneur Mark Cuban: Fri., Jan. 27 at 1 p.m. ET
January 17 and 19 First $10 business diary entry due by midnight, January 20 Email your diary to mgt386@gmail.com with the subject line **Diary 1**. Write your entry in the text of the message instead of attaching it as a Word doc. You might ask "What shall I write about?" Here are a few suggestions: "What did you decide to do for your business? What types of ideas did you come up with and reject or accept? What was your thought process for acceptance or rejection? Did you make any sales? What do you plan to do next week for your business?"
 * Week 2**


 * Homework assignment - I sent links to a survey to each of you using your crimson.ua.edu email addresses. If you did not get an email from me, please contact me at mgt386@gmail.com so I can send you the link. **


 * January 19 **
 * Thundershirt for dogs!
 * Some words about opportunity registers
 * Opportunity register examples
 * Autoshop opportunity register


 * January 17 **
 * Pitching
 * Pre-lecture topics
 * Business: Luxury Jets!
 * Exercise: __Evaluating student pitches__ (link only works in class)
 * Lecture presentation: [[file:ch01.ppt]]
 * Related to lecture: Facebook IPO

Exam date to be posted later today.

January 12 Course preview Homework assignment: Crimson Tide Football Trivia || **May!** ||
 * Week 1**
 * Syllabus and expectations
 * Buy Perfect Cupcake!
 * In praise of the experimenter


 * Syllabus[[file:MGT386-001_Syllabus_Spring2012.doc]]
 * Calendar
 * Course files

Tools

 * [|Business Model Generation]
 * StartupWheel by [|Startup Company]