Ashesi University College
June 24, 2013 to July 26, 2013
Welcome to AITI Ghana 2013
Instructor contact info:
All instructors: ghana-summer-2013@mit.edu
Leah: lalpert@mit.edu, 057 609 6531
Taibo: taiboli@mit.edu, 057 609 6530
Josh: joshuap@mit.edu, jprzybylko@gmail.com, 617 447 6459
Entrepreneurship Materials:
Class 1 – Class Objectives and Introduction
Class 2 – Project Examples and Introduction to Idea Generation
– Darwinator Idea Submission Guide
Class 3 – Systematic Methods in Design Thinking
Class 4 –Vision and Mission Statements
– Run Keeper Mobile App Case Study
– Idea Competition Theory
Class 5 – Results of Darwinator Evaluations
– Idea Competition Theory
– Real-Win-Worth-it Analysis Overview
Presentation Day 1– Real-Win-Worth-it Student Presentations
Class 6 – Introduction to Prototyping
– Product Design Process and Planning
Class 7 – The Business Plan (Guest Lecturer Philip Obi)
Class 8 – Review of Team Best Practices and Team contract
– The Evolving Idea and Idea Pivots
–Famous Idea Pivots including: Instagram, YouTube, etc
Guest Presenter 1
Class 9 – Minimum Viable Product
–The Lean Startup
–Customer Needs and Defining Product Specifications
Class 10 – Customer Personas
– The Total Addressable Market (TAM) and Market Estimation
Class 11 – Monetization Strategies
– Pricing
Class 12 – Service Design and Service Mapping
– Six Whopping Lies Told About Entrepreneurs by Professor Bill Aulet of MIT
Presentation Day 2 – Concept Model Design Review Day
Guest Presenter 2
Class 13 – Business Economics and the Financial Business Plan
Class 14 – Marketing Strategies
Class 15 – The Pitch and Presentation Strategies
Presentation Day 3 – Final Presentations
Class 16 – Class Wrap-up
* Note that pitching techniques were taught during each class and reviewed directly prior to final presentations
Additional Material
Class for Master Card Students – Problem Solving Grand Slam
Technical Materials:
Python Lecture 1 25-June-2013 (Intro)
Python Lecture 2 26-June-2013 (Control Structures)
Python Lecture 3 27-June-2013 (Functions)
Python Lecture 4 28-June-2013 (Functions & Lists)
Python Lecture 5 02-July-2013 (Dictionaries & Objects)
Django Lecture 1 04-July-2013 (Intro)
Django Lecture 2 05-July-2013 (Models)
Django Lecture 3&4 09-July-2013 (Templates; HTML/CSS)
Django Lecture 5 11-July-2013 (Views)
Django Lecture 6 12-July-2013 (Forms)
Django Lecture 7 15-July-2013 (Users)
Technical References
Hosting Your App on Heroku Using Django & Postgresql
And of course,
Python Documentation (Python 2.7.5)
Django Documentation (Django 1.5.1)
W3Schools Web Programming Tutorials
