Entrepreneurship and Venture Initiation
Management 295A
Readings and Presentations
Day and Time Mondays and Wednedays, April 3 through June 7
10:00 am to 11:20 pm

Final Exam on Tuesday, June 13, 8:30 to 11:30
Classroom Anderson C-301
Lecturer/Contact George Abe; extension 63082; george.abe@anderson.ucla.edu
Office Location D418; Office hours arranged individually
Syllabus Here
Roster Here
Required Readings Bygrave and Zacharakis,
“The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, 3rd Edition

Various readings assigned weekly.

Lectures, Readings and Homework
Housekeeping
Feasibility Slides

Legal Basics

Term Sheet Slides
Series A Example

Short Form Term Sheet

Fenwick Definitions

Fenwick Survey data

Intellectual Property

Fundraising

OPLL Presentation

WAVE Presentation

Series B Example

UC patent backgrounder and policy

Commercialization

UCLA License

UCLA Research Statistics

Case Studies
SurgiCount Case Study
Term Sheet Case Study
GP_Star Case Study
Trillium Case Study
For Your Bookmark File
Daily Current Events
Business Week Smallbiz
The Economist Tech Quarterly
BBC on Small Business
BBC on Science
Wall Street Journal Startup Journal
Harvard Business School on Entrepreneurship
VC Experts
Venture Wire Press Releases
Price Waterhouse Coopers Vision to Reality
U.S. Small Business Administration
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
University of California Office of Tech Transfer