Design Entrepreneurship Calendar

Alvaro Soto
Futures, Entrepreneurship and AI
2 min readFeb 4, 2018

February 3rd, Saturday

  • 9:00–10:00 Introductions, intro to the course, calendar, syllabus etc.
  • 10:00- 11:00 Christian Helms
  • 11:00–12:00 Debbie Millman
  • 12:00–12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30–3:00 Understanding the user and markets
Pulp Fiction, Royale With Cheese. A lesson on market segments

February 4th, Sunday

  • 9:00–10:00 Mapping users
  • 10:00- 11:00 Differentiation, Strategy
  • 11:00–12:30 Value Proposition and Competitive Strategy.
  • 12:30–1:00 Lunch
  • 1:00–2:00 Liza Willmore, Business strategies in the wild
  • 2:00–3:00 Project review, assignment.
Follow up books: Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey Moore. Competing Against Luck, Clayton M. Christensen. Change by Design, Tim Brown. Tribes, Seth Godin.

March 3rd, Saturday

  • 9:00–10:00 Feedback
  • 11:00–12:00 Debbie Millman
  • 12:00–12:30 Lunch.
  • 12:30–1:00 Austin Startup World, Ariel Kayne
  • 1:00–3:00 Business Model Generation

March 4th, Sunday

  • 9:00–11:00 Work Time
  • 11:00:12:30 Christian Helms
  • 12:30–3:00 Value Proposition Design
Follow up books: Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne. Business Model Generation, Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur. Value Proposition Design, Alex Osterwalder.

April 14th, Saturday

  • 9:00–10:00 Feedback
  • 10:00- 11:00 Christian Helms: Project Feedback
  • 11:00–12:00 Debbie Millman: Project Feedback
  • 12:00–12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30–1:00 Doug Powell: Speaker
  • 1:30–4:00 Lean Startup

April 15th, Sunday

  • 9:00 — 12:00 Cynthia Lawson: Speaker and project feedback
  • 12:00–12:30 Lunch
  • 12:30–1:30 Presenting and selling your ideas
  • 1:30 – 4:00 Workshop

April 28th, Saturday

  • 9:00–12:00 Final Presentations.

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