Princeton University
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Computer Science 448
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The schedule and syllabus is preliminary and will evolve throughout the course. Students should check this page frequently. Lecture slides are available, for enrolled students, on Piazza
Date | Lecturer | Topic | Readings |
Mon 02/04 | JP Singh | Intro, Course structure |
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Wed 02/06 | Michael Walrath (Founder, RightMedia) |
The Entrepreneur's Journey: From start to exit |
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Mon 02/11 | Muneeb Ali | A Brief History of
Computing: The tale of New Jersey and Silicon Valley |
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Wed 02/13 | Christine
Hunsicker (CEO, Gwynnie Bee) |
Starting a Company: The founder's view, and applying the lessons learned |
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Mon 02/18 | JP Singh | What is a CTO: Organization structures and roles; role of CTO |
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Mon 02/18 (special time) |
Paul
Graham (Co-founder, Y Combinator) |
Starting a Company: The investor/incubator view |
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Wed 02/20 | JP Singh | What is a CTO: Organization structures and roles; role of CTO (continued) |
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Mon 02/25 | JP Singh | Starting a Company: The CTO view (why, what, and why this one, hiring/talent, competition, setting it up right) |
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Wed 02/27 | JP Singh | Defining and Validating your Business: Mission, vision, strategy, validation, competition |
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Mon 03/04 | JP Singh | Defining and Building the
Offering: Financing Options |
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Wed 03/06 | Fred
Wilson (Founding Partner, USV) |
Funding and Growing Companies: The investor view |
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Mon 03/11 | JP Singh | Defining and Building the
Offering: Financing Options (continued) |
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Wed 03/13 | Dan Levin (COO, Box) |
Tech Business Boundary in Scaling a Startup |
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Mon 03/18 | --- | --- | Spring Break! |
Wed 03/20 | --- | --- | Spring Break! |
Mon 03/25 | Muneeb Ali | The New Software Stack: MVC Frameworks and Web Services |
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Wed 03/27 | JP Singh | Startup Funding: Term Sheets, Vesting, other Legal Issues |
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Mon 04/01 | JP Singh | Hiring and Growth |
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Wed 04/03 | JP Singh | Hiring and Growth (continued) |
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Mon 04/08 | JP Singh | Scaling an Organization |
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Wed 04/10 | JP Singh | Scaling an Organization (vs. Scaling the Product/Service) |
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Mon 04/15 | Muneeb Ali | Gettting your Business Going on the Cloud: Building and Scaling it |
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Wed 04/17 | John Hennessy (President, Stanford) |
Starting a Company: Technical Founder's View |
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Tue 04/23 (special time) |
Jack Dorsey (Co-founder, Twitter) |
Q/A Session |
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Wed 04/24 | JP Singh | Managing Innovation and Growth |
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Mon 04/29 (12:15pm-1:20pm) |
Padmasree Warrior (CTO, Cisco) |
Strategy, Technology, and Leadership |
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Wed 05/01 | Peter
Fenton (General Partner, Benchmark) |
Rapid Growth |
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Mon 05/06 | --- | --- | Reading Period begins |
Wed 05/08 (10:30am) |
Final Presentations | --- | --- |
Tue 05/14 (Dean's Date) |
Final Paper Due | --- | --- |
Wed 05/22 | Sanjit
Biswas (CEO, Meraki) |
From Roofnet to Meraki |
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