Miami Startups
Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Business Models course offered at Miami.
What is ESP201?
What startup entrepreneurs are wired to do.
What is create change?
Most successful entrepreneurs have a strong track record and years of experience in their industry.
What is FALSE? -most have some experience in other fields, but have not started their own business.
This company started with 2 men renting out 3 mattresses in their own home to employees of a multibillion-dollar company.
What is AirBnB?
Widely considered a visionary and a genius, he oversaw the launch of such revolutionary products as the iPod and the iPhone.
Who is Steve Jobs?
Who is Mark Lacker?
The man that said, “Starting is simply about seeing a problem in your life and trying to fix it. If you figure it out, then you can consider doing it for others who have a similar problem. That’s it.”
Who is Brent Beshore?
All startups are technology based.
what is FALSE?
An app made in 8 weeks 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?
American industrialist and business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
An organization run by undergraduate students that provides students with the opportunity to invest in Miami University student or alumni-led startups, exposing them to the complexities of venture capital investing.
What is Miami Redhawk Ventures?
Entrepreneurs take advantage of this without regard to availability of resources.
What are opportunities?
Most startups fail in the first 3 years.
What is TRUE?
This picture sharing website took founder Ben Silbermann 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?
This person is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla - and in space, via rocket producer SpaceX.
Who is Elon Musk?
A course structured using an agile scrum project management approach in which tasks are completed in short "sprints.". In this course students will learn digital marketing and analytics strategies and techniques including landing page development, A/B testing and Google analytics.
What is ESP321: Startup Entrepreneurship?
Startup Entrepreneurship is the transformation of a/an _____ into a commercial opportunity.
What is an idea?
You have to have rich investors.
What is FALSE?
The three men who made this game created 51 unsuccessful games and went broke before they came out with their popular bird slinging fad.
What is Angry Birds?
Cofounder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with photos of classmates.
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Clean food brand that began as a Miami Startup, now known for having "No B.S." ingredients.
What is RXbar?
3 characteristics of a startup.
What are 1. New company 2. Test products before spending money 3. Learns customer needs to make up for lack of customer knowledge?
Startups have to be a new idea or service.
What is TRUE?
Entrepreneur Reid Hoffsman started working on this business connections website in 1993 before Sequoia invested in his product 10 years later.
What is LinkedIn?
In 1973, this engineer patented polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, the first plastic bottle to be able to withstand the pressure of carbonated liquids.
Who is Nathaniel Wyeth?