ReadingsGroup Formation
Wikipedia's entry on Forming-storming-norming-performing model of group formation (Complements Lecture 3).
Original Paper on Group Formation
Original Tuckman article. Good luck. (Complements Lecture 3).
Business Models
Wikipedia's entry on Business Models (Complements Lecture 5).
Financials Template
An Excel template for generating your financial projections.
Sample Business Plan
This business plan earned an 'A' in E102 last year. The technology is now being used by preeminent brain surgeons in the US at Cedar Sinai and elsewhere.
Sample Business Plan
Andy wrote this a couple of years ago. The technology is still under development in laboratories at Notre Dame. Please keep this confidential.
Sample Business Plan
Jim Brown co-wrote this business plan that was offered funding, but did not accept the money.
Lecture By Tom Leighton, Co-Founder of Akamai
Ever wonder how the internet works? Tom Leighton of Akamai (akamai.com) explains this and his experience with entrepreneurship in this video. It's a superbly told story of how a professor and one of his students took their research from MIT and made it into a multibillion dollar company (Nasdaq: AKAM).