This website is the archival copy of the ENTR 200 website from Fall 2007, taught by David Blakesley at Purdue University. All commenting and other interactive features have been rendered inactive since the class no longer meets. Visitors are free to review the course materials. It was a great class!

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Overview

This group project will involve developing and elaborating an entrepreneurial concept or idea, creating the important documents (feasibility study, start-up procedures, funding plan, etc.), pitching it to the class in an oral presentation with multimedia components (PowerPoint, Keynote, website, etc.), and then assessing the group’s effort at the end in a Collaborative Project Evaluation Form.

Deliverables

1. Oral presentation with team (7-10 minutes, December 4 or 6).
2. Comprehensive Concept Statement (5-7 pages, single-spaced, not including images, appendices, and sources page, as needed). Due December 6 in class, in printed form: one copy, with each team member’s name listed. Please also send an electronic copy to Dr. Blakesley (blakesle@purdue.edu) and each member of the team (use doc, rtf, or pdf format, but not docx).
3. Peer Collaborative Project Evaluation Form. Submit this document in printed form in class on December 6. You can download the form at our website: http://www.digitalparlor.org/fa07/blakesley2/peerevaluation
4. Project Log. All members of the team should be active contributors to the team’s project log at the course website. Remember that it’s important for everyone to document their work on the project (if you don’t let us know what you’ve done, who will?)

Here's a Flash movie that will walk you through some of the guidelines for the Comprehensive Concept Statements. The original PowerPoint was presented in class on Thursday, Nov. 15. Click on the attachment to open the Flash movie. You need to be logged in to see the attachment!

Here is the link to the facebook video!! You gotta watch it! It is really funny!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ

Final Group Project: Comprehensive Concept Statement ENTR 200

This group project will involve developing and elaborating an entrepreneurial concept or idea, creating the important documents (feasibility study, start-up procedures, funding plan, etc), pitching it to the class in an oral presentation with multimedia components (PowerPoint, Keynote, website, samples, or other handouts), and then assessing the group's effort at the end in a Collaborative Project Evaluation Form.

Phase 1 of the Project: Idea Development and Team Formation

• Step 1: Propose a concept or idea for group voting.
• Step 2: The class will select the top 8 concepts through online voting. The people who propose the winning concepts will be the initial team leaders.

The first step for the final project ("Comprehensive Concept Statement") will involve posting an idea or concept that you think would be worth developing more fully and that others would be interested in as well. Post your 100-word (max) idea as a comment on this post by Tuesday's class, 10/16.

The Environmental Entrepreneurship Initiative (EEI) is a partnership between the Center for the Environment and the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue's Discovery Park.

This initiative is designed to encourage undergraduate and graduate student teams to learn about environmental entrepreneurship by developing new ideas into services or products that benefit the environment and society.

A total of $10,000 will be awarded to the best environmental service and product ideas.

An informational call out will be held Oct. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in Room 205, ABE.

The EEI is part of the National Idea-to-Product® event coordinated by Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Purdue's Discovery Park.

For details on forming a team and participating in the Environmental Entrepreneurship Initiative please visit http://www.purdue.edu/dp/environment/I2P/

Here are the teams for the midterm project. Be sure to exchange contact information right away. The Team Tag to use for all project-related blog posting (documents, project logs, meeting notes, etc.) should be "Team #" (so, Team 1 should use the tag Team 1, and so on down the line).