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.
• Step 3: Each team leader should create a new blog post (tagged with “Concept”) and post it to the website so that other people in the class can read more about the idea. Describe the concept using some of your original description, as needed. Your goal is to attract great team members to your idea and cause. Post this blog entry no later than Thursday, Nov. 1, at the start of class.
• Step 4: Everyone whose idea wasn’t selected need to read through the winning concepts, then make a pitch for joining that team. You can make your pitch by posting a comment/reply to the leader’s blog entry announcing the idea (look under the “concept” tag for a complete listing). In your response, say why you like the idea and what you would bring to the project. Your response/pitch is due by Tuesday, November 6 at the start of class.
• Step 5: Team leaders should write a short invitation email to the four additional group members they have selected for their team to see if each is still available. The team leader’s goal is to have the team assembled one way or the other by Thursday, November 8.
• Step 6: A team member should start the team’s project log with a blog posting that a) identifies in one sentence the concept; b) lists all the team members; and c) tags the entry with Project Log *Idea* (put the concept where you see “idea”). The team will use this blog post as its ongoing project log. Step 6 must be completed by Tuesday, November 13.
• Step 7: Using ideas from the textbook and The Tipping Point, conduct a brainstorming session (during class on Thursday, November 15). Someone should record all the ideas and post them to the team’s project log no later than Tuesday, November 20.
Phase 2 of the project will begin on Tuesday, November 8, with discussion of the feasibility report, start-up issues, and more.