The Startup: Navigating Chaos to Elevate Your Career and Achieve Entrepreneurial Success

Working Title

Topic

When Life Goes Bump

Turbulence - introducing entrepreneurship

The Rational Entrepreneur

Background of an entrepreneur

Is this It?

Opportunity Identification

Mining for Opportunity

Dealing with universities

Strategy

Planning in chaos

Value Creation

Creating value for your customer

From Idea to Product

Idea to product transition

Marketing your opportunity (or yourself)

It Ain't all Peaches and Cream

Sticking it out; Work/life balance

Financial Fitness

Ensuring sustainability - financial durability

Blocking and Tackling

Start-up Operations - blocking and tackling

Raising Money

Raising money - sources and pitfalls

Pitch Perfect

Crafting the pitch

Closing

Closing the deal

Customers are Golden

Engaging customers in high tech

Sell Baby, Sell

Harvesting value

Cashing Out

Acquisition