Startup Entrepreneurship at Miami
Teaches ESP 201 and 401
Who is Conger?
Small business that survive the first five years
What is 50%?
There were 3 men that created this game and created 51 unsuccessful games before this and went broke before this game was a success.
What is Angry Birds?
A young company founded by one or more entrepreneurs to develop a unique product or service.
what is startup entrepreneurship?
A place that helps with funding and mentorship for a few months
What is accelerator?
To be a successful employee in a rapidly growing company where pace, ambiguity and the ability to figure things out on the fly are at a premium.
What is training an entrepreneurial workforce?
Passionate People
What should you be surrounded by?
An app that was made in 8 weeks was designed to allow location-aware photos and note-sharing that the creator pitched to investors at a party before quitting his job.
What is Instagram?
The average number of businesses started by an entrepreneur.
What is 2?
A place that helps with mentoring, resources, and connections over a long period of time
What is incubator?
all about overcoming challenges and solving problems
What is startup entrepreneurship and venture capital?
In-depth understanding of what it takes to succeed
What is scaling a business?
This picture sharing website took founder Ben Silvermann 5 years of unemployment and hard work to get off its feet; and is now the 35th most visited website in the world.
What is pinterest?
Startups are mostly for these people
Who are risk-takers?
Change a market with an idea
What is disruption?
startups have at least one female founder and just last year, female founders received only 2.2 percent of total global venture capital funding
What is 17%
A reason why people would want to begin a startup
What is passion?
This company started with 2 men renting out 3 mattresses in their own home to employees of a million dollar company.
What is AirBnB?
The percent of entrepreneurs that incubated their ideas for a company while working for someone else.
What is 70%?
Any minor changes needed to improve the product or sales
What is iteration?
Advancing Women in Entrepreneurship
What is AWE?
Something lots of founders may prioritize
What are technological and market risks?
Entrepreneur Reid Hoffsman started working on this business idea connections website in 1993 before Sequoia invested in his product in 10 years later.
What is LinkedIn?
when a business owner decides to grow the business he or she should consider the
What are economic scales?
The evaluation of metrics and the buzz around the company name
What is traction?