Download the entire Boot Camp packet, replete with slides and speaker bios (35mb PDF).
Learn
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Secrets for customer discovery and developing a business plan canvas from keynote speaker Bob Dorf, Steve Blank's consulting and writing partner, K&S Ranch, and a serial entrepreneur/investor. The customer development process detailed in Steve Blank’s best-selling book, “Four Steps to Epiphany,” is a guiding light for tech startups. “Customer Development: The Second Decade,” co-authored (in progress) by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf, looks at what’s changed. The new book is the basis of the Stanford Lean Launch Pad and the NSF I-Corps curriculum.
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The top ten mistakes entrepreneurs make from a FounderCorps panel of successful venture builders
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How to kickstart your social media product from idea to prototype from Zvi Band, Structo Founder/Developer, Co-founder, DC Tech Meetup, ProudlyMadeinDC
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Details about NSF’s new I-Corps Program for faculty from Errol Arkilic, Innovation Corps Program Director, National Science Foundation
Connect
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With hundreds of current, successful and aspiring entrepreneurs, investors and mentors
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With future team members and present your idea during the elevator pitch contest and potentially win a share of prize money
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With thousands of people in the tech entrepreneurship community through Digital Capital Week, which DJ Saul, VP of New Ventures, iStrategyLabs, will discuss
Get Inspired
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By UM President Wallace D. Loh, who will highlight entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Maryland
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By stories of innovation at the University of Maryland, including the Gamera Project, a record-setting human-powered helicopter
The University of Maryland Technology Startup Boot Camp is an intensive, one-day workshop about how to launch and grow new ventures, taught by regional leaders in entrepreneurship.
The Boot Camp is FREE to University of Maryland students, faculty and staff. The cost is $49 for all others. Lunch is included.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Wounded Warrior jersey photo via www.usnews.com
University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh will give away an official designer Under Armour Terps jersey donated by the football team to attendee! Must pre-register for the event and be present to win.
A drawing for free copies of the book "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" will be held. Must pre-register for the event and be present to win.
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