Byers and Bangale do EF2

EF2 Spring 2015 Tidbits....

Carl Byers and Ajay Bangale EF 2 Project

Agenda for 1.14.15 Call (10am ET)

Preliminary: Focus on the Reading materials and emphasize how to structure

1. Readings: Value, Venture Deals and Financial Intelligence to be more technically savvy; Business Model Generation and Value Proposition design to ideate and execute the right and left brains effectively
2. Cases: Waze (product evolution and fundraising amidst industry gorillas), Ockham Technologies’ Founding Agreement (slicing and dicing the pie along with the whip cream), more to come
3. Lecture Content: Financing 1 (valuation and fundraising), 2 (process and securities), 3 (deal players and terms): Feld and Mendelson’s Venture Deals is the most relevant technical resource; some diagrams and graphics can be grafted from Value Proposition Design and Business Model generation
4. Simulations: Attracting capital, Managing growth, Exiting ventures
5. Blogs:

I went ahead and ordered the books post our chat and spent a handful of days at the local Barnes and Noble trying to sniff around for the latest and greatest EF related books. My nose is ~16 hours deep in…

Venture Deals, Value, Financial Intelligence, Value Proposition Design, and Business Model Generation, Getting to Giving

Another top book I recommend that students look through at their own leisure is Steve Mariotti and Debra Desalvo’s Young Entrepreneur’s Guide (see below). The book basically walks through everything one needs to know about jumpstarting a new enterprise from the nooks to crannies all the way up to the bird’s eye view of the business model.

The Young Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting & Running a Business (Steve Mariotti and Debra Desalvo)