Welcome to the webpages of the course ICT Entrepreneurship
Academic year 2011-2012
Lecturers: Slinger Roijackers and Ravi Khadka Assistance from Wouter Westendorp
This page will be used for announcements and latest news regarding the course ICT Entrepreneurship. The linked pages will provide you with further and detailed information and is structured by calendar week.
Course locations
For course locations please visit the course website. Please pay attention that we will be working in the lab or following classes for the full hours of the course, i.e., 20 hours per week. Students are obliged to attend all lectures, but you will find yourself drawn by the course without much effort. Please be sure to plan your weekend jobs to start later than 17:00 on all class days.
Course start
The course will start on the 7th of September.
Planning ICT Entrepreneurship
| Nr. | Date | Subject | Speaker | Assignment | Deadline |
| 1 | 7/9 | Introduction, product idea generation (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | Formation of Product Teams | |
| 2 | 9/9 | Horizontal teams (pdf) Accelerators (pdf) |
Slinger Roijackers | Formation of business units, Netherware Company, and forming the Horizontal Teams | Product Definition: 16:45 Horizontal Teams: 16:45 |
| 3 | 14/9 | Starting a Product (pdf) Project Plan (pdf) |
Slinger Roijackers | ||
| 4 | 16/9 | Marketing Plan, Marketing (pdf) and Predictive Marketing (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | ||
| 5 | 21/9 | Success Decisions for Software Start-ups Web and Cloud Development for Entrepreneurs Report from Wouter on innovativeness of your product |
Roderick van Cann André Boonzaaier Wouter Westendorp |
Project Plan | Project Plan: 16:45 |
| 6 | 23/9 | Product Deployment (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | ||
| 7 | 28/9 | Software Architecture Modeling (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | ||
| 8 | 30/9 | Software Ecosystems Business Model: Product Deployment Context and Software Supply Network (pdf) and How to Write a Business Plan (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | Marketing plan | Marketing Plan: 16:45 |
| 9 | 5/10 | Organizing a product software company and Legal forms (pdf) | Slinger Roijackers | ||
| 10 | 7/10 | Mid Review | Board of Supervisors | Mid Review | |
| 11 | 12/10 | Functional Architecture (pdf) | Sjaak Brinkkemper | Business Model | Business Model: 16:45 |
| 12 | 14/10 | Intellectual Property (pdf) | Sjaak Brinkkemper | Architecture | Architecture: 16:45 |
| 13 | 19/10 | Venture Capital (pdf) | Wim van den Brandt | ||
| 14 | 21/10 | Software Configuration Management (pdf) | Ravi Khadka | Draft Business Plan: 16:45 | |
| 15 | 26/10 | Dirict.nl (pdf) | Rob van Weeghel | Year-end Report | Year-end Report: 16:45 |
| 16 | 28/10 | 42Windmills.com | Vincent van Nimwegen | ||
| 17 | 2/11 | Yunoo.nl DigitaleFactuur.nl |
Kevin Voges Tijmen van Dobbenburgh |
Business Plan | Final Business Plan: 16:45 |
| 18 | 4/11 | ISVWorld.com | Rene van Erk | Prototype | Prototype: 13:00 |
| 19 | 11/11 | End Review | Board of Supervisors | End Review and Final presentation |
What's next?
There will be a “What’s next?” meeting in 2012. This meeting will help you consider your options as a future entrepreneur. Please find more information about Netherware.
Your mark
The mark for this course is a weighted average for the following assignments:
Course Tools
For the course of 2011/2012 we have chosen to use Google Groups. You will find Google Groups a great tool for the course. If you did not receive your account details yet, please contact Slinger Roijackers (slinger@cs.uu.nl).
Course Literature
The following literature is required reading material for the course of ICT-Entrepreneurship.
Fun Stuff
On this page you can find some fun entrepreneur stuff, in case you want to get inspired.