So sorry to readers for the lack of posts over the past couple of months. Let's see if we can break the logjam this month, because I have a long list of good stuff to share. We look forward to hearing from others in this wonderfully vibrant and growing community of entrepreneurship eduators around the globe.
One of my primary motivators for writing the Technology Ventures textbook with Dick Dorf was to satisfy the needs of my large introductory course on technology entrepreneurship designed for all Stanford undergraduates and coterminal studetns (i.e., those staying for a masters right after their bachelors degree program). Last week, the 2007 version of this course got underway with the second edition of the textbook being the "anchor" required reading. Please feel free to visit our course website and syllabus here to see how we use it at Stanford University for this particular audience of 75. Please note the site is not password protected as is the case for all our entrepreneurship courses affliated with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
I am lucky to teach this course with the assistance of Randy Komisar, who is a terrific venture capitalist at KPCB and the author of a wonderful companion book that we also assigne as required reading. It is called the Monk and the Riddle. It truly is a nice complement to the Technology Ventures textbook. I also recommend alternatives such as Guy Kawasaki's book called Art of the Start and David Goldberg's The Entrpreneurial Engineer.
We also use cases from both the appendix of Technology Ventures (e.g., Yahoo) and some great ones easily assembled at Harvard's collection. Given Harvard's scheme for distributing cases electronically, it is simple to put together an online reader and allow students to purchase them directly.
I will more comments on how things are going throughout the term. For those of you using the book at other institutions, please comment as you see fit. Of course, thanks again for giving it a try.
Happy New Year to all.
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