Entrepreneurship for Engineers

About

In this course, students will learn the basic principles of technological entrepreneurship.
Students will be able to create a Minimal Viable Prototype (MVP) by applying principles of paper prototyping, create and implement a customer development pipeline and will be able to evaluate a product’s market fit and unit economics. Also we will learn how to prepare a pitch deck for their project from scratch, evaluate the quality of the early-stage venture capital, and implement a fund-raising plan.

Learning Highlights:

- discover statistical properties of venture capital markets;

- explore concept of a Paper Prototype;

- craft Product Market Fit;

- learn the principles of pitch deck creation;

- discover structure of the customer-development pipeline.

Course leader

Dr. Ivan Yamshchikov worked as a data analyst at Yandex for six years, was an artificial intelligence evangelist at ABBYY for three years, and was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig for four years.

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