MTE:FounderProject

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Founder Project

  • Course name: Founder Project
  • Code discipline: Subject area: Technical Entrepreneurship
  • Subject area: T; e; c; h; n; i; c; a; l;  ; E; n; t; r; e; p; r; e; n; e; u; r; s; h; i; p

Short Description

and prerequisites

Prerequisites

Prerequisite subjects

  • N/A

Prerequisite topics

  • Progress check-up, Q&A session, Critical incidents (CI) analysis, Reflection and feedback
  • Management of a startup: key issues
  • Soft and hard skills of a founder

Course Topics

Course Sections and Topics
Section Topics within the section
Section 1:

Basic ||

  1. Basic for all topics:
  2. Progress check-up
  3. Q&A session
  4. Critical incidents (CI) analysis
  5. Reflection and feedback
  7. Main topics for the workshops:
  8. Being an entrepreneur: challenges and advantages
  9. How to work with a mentor
  10. Science and entrepreneurship: synergy effect
  11. Step by step to success: how to measure your business progress
  12. Developing entrepreneurial thinking
  13. Self presentation and pitching
  14. Techniques of self-effectiveness for an entrepreneur
  15. Business mission: creating value on the market
  16. Planning and strategic projecting
  17. Teambuilding
  18. Problem-solving and flexibility in entrepreneurship
  19. Customer relationships
  20. “Rise and fall”: how to learn from your mistakes
  21. Work/life balance for an entrepreneur
  22. Where to find inspiration and to inspire others in business
Section 2: 
     Advanced ||
  1. Basic for all topics:
  2. Progress check-up
  3. Q&A session
  4. Critical incidents (CI) analysis
  5. Reflection and feedback
  7. Main topics for the workshops:
  8. Forming entrepreneurial identity: how to face CI effectively
  9. Entrepreneurial strategies
  10. Competitiveness and high professional value of a startup founder
  11. Mentorship and advisory for a startup
  12. Investor relationship
  13. Community management of IT-entrepreneur
  14. Implementation of a business model: flexibility and adaptation
  15. Team building and human potential development
  16. Networking: how to add and create value
  17. Finance and money attitude of a startup founder
  18. Client orientation
  19. Pitch-deck design and pitching to various audiences
  20. Startup founder as a seller
  21. Risk-management for an IT-startup
  22. Creating brand that matters: how to make a valuable impact

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

What is the main purpose of this course?

The main purpose of this course is to enable a student to progress with the development of the business project effectively dealing with a mentor and participating in workshops on main topics needed for a startup founder.

ILOs defined at three levels

Level 1: What concepts should a student know/remember/explain?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

  • know what is a progress check up, Critical incident, reflection in entrepreneurship,
  • explain main management concepts for a startup
  • explain all basic elements needed for a project realization
  • explain challenges and advantages of being a startup founder
  • know what is entrepreneurial thinking and how to develop it,
  • basic concepts of working with mentor

Level 2: What basic practical skills should a student be able to perform?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

  • deal with a mentor and advisors,
  • use scientific research in business,
  • measure business progress,
  • do self presentation and pitching,
  • create a business mission,
  • plan and do strategic projecting
  • team building,
  • perform problem-solving and flexibility,
  • manage customer relationships,
  • get right conclusions from the mistakes,
  • organize work/life balance,
  • to inspire others in business,
  • face CI effectively using various entrepreneurial strategies,
  • provide startup and self-competitiveness,
  • manage with investors,
  • do networking and community management
  • pitch to different audiences,
  • implement client orientation to their company,
  • risk-management,
  • branding.

Level 3: What complex comprehensive skills should a student be able to apply in real-life scenarios?

By the end of the course, the students should be able to ...

  • Check the progress of a startup, make a reflection, face with the main critical incidents for a founder
  • Effectively deal with a mentor, participate in the student business community providing a value,
  • Develop a founder project systematizing all concepts and using all basic elements of startup management.

Grading

Course grading range

Grade Range Description of performance
A. Excellent 90-100 -
B. Good 75-89 -
C. Satisfactory 60-74 -
D. Fail 0-59 -

Course activities and grading breakdown

Activity Type Percentage of the overall course grade
Assignment 50
Quizzes 15
Peer review 15
Demo day 20

Recommendations for students on how to succeed in the course

Participation is important. Showing up is the key to success in this course.
You will work in teams, so coordinating teamwork will be an important factor for success. This is also reflected in the peer review being a graded item.
Review lecture materials before classes to do well in quizzes.
Reading the recommended literature is optional, and will give you a deeper understanding of the material.

Resources, literature and reference materials

Open access resources

Closed access resources

Software and tools used within the course

Teaching Methodology: Methods, techniques, & activities

Activities and Teaching Methods

Teaching and Learning Methods within each section
Teaching Techniques Section 1 Section 2
Problem-based learning (students learn by solving open-ended problems without a strictly-defined solution) 1 1
Project-based learning (students work on a project) 1 1
Contextual learning (activities and tasks are connected to the real world to make it easier for students to relate to them); 1 1
Business game (learn by playing a game that incorporates the principles of the material covered within the course). 1 1
развивающего обучения (задания и материал "прокачивают" ещё нераскрытые возможности студентов); 1 1
концентрированного обучения (занятия по одной большой теме логически объединяются); 1 1
inquiry-based learning 1 1
Just-in-time teaching 1 1
Activities within each section
Learning Activities Section 1 Section 2
Lab exercises 1 1
Cases studies 1 1
Individual Projects 1 1
Group projects 1 1
Discussions 1 1
Presentations by students 1 1
Simulations and role-plays 1 1
Oral Reports 1 1

Formative Assessment and Course Activities

Ongoing performance assessment

Section 1

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Individual and group reflection Progress check-up
Q&A session
Critical incidents (CI) analysis
Reflection and feedback
 1
Training Business training on the topic of the workshop with the aim to concept understanding, the skills development, knowledge systematization and practical implementation. 0
Group project 5-minutes group pitches on the topic of the current class.


Suggested structure:
- What is the main problem a Founder can face here?
- What are the main techniques/instruments he can use?
- What are the main strategies of implementation?
- What is a practical value?
- What else can we propose?
 1
Individual presentation Students make presentations showing the ways of practical implementation of the business aspect that was discussed in current class into their startup. 1

Section 2

Activity Type Content Is Graded?
Individual and group reflection Progress check-up
Q&A session
Critical incidents (CI) analysis
Reflection and feedback
 1
Training Business training on the topic of the workshop with the aim to concept understanding, the skills development, knowledge systematization and practical implementation. 0
Group project 5-minutes group pitches on the topic of the current class.


Suggested structure:
- What is the main problem a Founder can face here?
- What are the main techniques/instruments he can use?
- What are the main strategies of implementation?
- What is a practical value?
- What else can we propose?
 1
Individual presentation Students make presentations showing the ways of practical implementation of the business aspect that was discussed in current class into their startup. 1

Final assessment

Section 1

  1. Grading criteria for the final project presentation:
  2. The student shows his ability to measure business progress, reflect and make conclusions,
  3. The student can show that he can face main business critical incidents effectively using various strategies,
  4. Students show that his dealing with a mentor is productive,
  5. Demonstrates effective practical implementation of the following concepts/issues: implementation of scientific work into business practice, business mission, strategical projecting, team building, problem-solving and flexibility, customer relationship, work/life balance.
  6. Performs good communication, pitching and presentation skills, inspired by the project, eager to develop it.

Section 2

  1. Grading criteria for the final project presentation:
  2. The student shows his ability to measure business progress, reflect and make conclusions,
  3. The student can show that he can face main business critical incidents effectively using various strategies,
  4. Students show that his dealing with a mentor is productive,
  5. Demonstrates effective practical implementation of the following concepts/issues: founder’s competitiveness and professional value, investor relationship, community management, business modeling, finance management, networking, team building and human potential management, client orientations, sales, risk-management and branding.
  6. Performs good communication, pitching and presentation skills, inspired by the project, eager to develop it.

The retake exam

Section 1

Section 2

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