Session on Entrepreneurship on 8/15

• Notes

• Pictures of Take Out Your Wallets

• Picture of Generate value from an usual object: a bottle

• Videos

• References:

  • What I wish I knew when I was 20. Tina Seelig. (Exercises were inspired from this book)

  • Imagine it http://imagineitproject.com

  • Stanford http://ecorner.stanford.edu

Lecture notes used during the bootcamp:

• What is an entrepreneur? (Anita Wasilewska)

• ICTs in Senegal? (Anita Wasilewska)

• Business and Ethics (Anita Wasilewska)

• Lecture notes by Mamadou Falilou Sarr in French

  • Introduction a la creation d'entreprise

  • Avez-vous le profil de l'entrepreneur?

  • Business plan

  • Quelques informations utiles pour le financement

  • Le financement

  • Choix du statut juridique

References:

• NCIIA's Wiki on Getting Started as an Entrepreneur

• Landscape of the ICT industry in Senegal (from the InfoDev report)

• Course on entrepreneurship in West Africa - http://westafrica.smetoolkit.org

• Entrepreneurship in Senegal - http://www.senentreprenariat.free.fr

Case studies:

• The Firefox Explosion, Josh McHughPage, Wired Magazine, February 2005

Videos:

• Innovation, Design and Simplicity, Marissa Mayer, Employee number 19 at Google, talk at the Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) in March 2008

• Pirates of Silicon Valley (movie)

• Startup.com (movie)

• The Money and the Power, 50 cents Entrepreneurship Program

• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Together - 7 short videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Z7eal4uXI