CSCI 4830/7000:
Entrepeneurial Projects II/Capstone
Spring 2016
Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Course Summary
The goal of this course is to build
upon the concepts learned in the Entrepreneurial Projects I
Capstone and give Computer Science students more
advanced tools to be successful technical co-founders of their
own startups. We will explore later stages of the
Lean Startup/Customer Development iterative methodology.
Student teams will build upon their low-fidelity MVPs that
exhibited traction to develop high-fidelity MVP products.
Students will learn business concepts like marketing, sales, and
finance that are relevant to IT startup formation, hopefully in
partnership with business school teams. Students will also
learn legal concepts relevant to startup formation.
Invited guest lecturers from the entrepreneurial community will
provide their domain expertise, which may include topics such as
product development, Agile software engineering, mobile
strategy, and big data/cloud computing, as well as
mentoring. Student teams will present/pitch their startup
company/concepts in various public forums, which may include the
CU New Venture Challenge, local Tech meetup, CS Expo,
startup2students-like job fair, and/or the final presentation.
General Information
See the Moodle class Web page at
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu
Schedule
& Location: Tues, Thurs 2-3:15 pm, ITLL 160
(location subject to change - stay tuned to moodle).
Also Wednesday recitation 5-5:50pm ECCR 1B51.
Course
number: CSCI 4830/7000. See also the registrar's Web site.
Note CSCI 4830 is part of a two-course Entrepeneurial Projects
Senior Capstone for B.S. Computer Science majors.
Prerequisites: Entrepreneurial Projects I (CSCI 4348/5340)
Instructors: Professor
Rick Han, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~rhan,
and Zach Nies, TechStars.
Office (Prof. Han): ECCR 1B05F in
CS Systems Lab
Office Hours (Prof. Han): Tuesdays 11 am and Wednesdays
2 pm in my office
(knock on door or call my office phone to be let in).
Additional appointments as needed.
Email: rhan@cs.colorado.edu,
zach@techstars.com
Phone: 303-492-0914 (Prof. Han)
Textbook:
Highly recommended:
The Kindle electronic version of The Startup Owner's Manual, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, K&S Ranch, Inc. Publishers, 2012.
class Web
site:
See the Moodle class Web page at
http://moodle.cs.colorado.edu. Assignments, lecture slides, and
announcements can be found there. The
moodle has a variety of useful features, including a forum for
posting questions. Each student should
establish an account on the moodle and then subscribe to our
class on the moodle using the special enrollment key given
out in class.
Approximate Timeline
Grading
60% Demos in class
25% Final presentation on team venture's status and progress
15% Class participation
Discrimination and
Sexual Harassment Policy