Summer Class 2014 - HADM4180/6180  Technology for Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship

Credits : 3

Faculty: Mona Anita Olsen

This course provides an overview of how to identify, evaluate, and design technology to enhance service delivery in bootstrapped entrepreneurial ventures. The course prepares students who have entrepreneurial intentions in a bootstrapped venture, whether for-profit or non-profit, to view contemporary issues in service delivery through the prism of entrepreneurial theory and practice. The class starts out using BMFiddle as a tool to model a business idea in the cloud for collaborative feedback. As the semester progresses, this model becomes the basis for the final project, the creation of a strategic technology plan that integrates many types of cloud-based technology vendors to maximize the execution and growth of a start-up entity. This objective is achieved through attendance at lectures and hands-on labs utilizing a mix of instructional methods including cooperative learning activities, alumni interview case development, reflective logs, group and individual pitch assignments, and project-based written assignments.