ESTECH030

Handouts 1
PR EPAR E D/CO MP ILE D B Y: Y. E . F E R NAN DE Z
Topic Coverage
• Class Details, Guidelines and Requirements
• 1. Introduction to Technopreneurship
• o Entrepreneurial Mindset
Learning Outcomes
• At the end of the discussion, the student should be able to
1) Determine class details, guidelines and requirements;
2) Discover the proposed Course Syllabus including timeline of class activity;
3) Explore the introductory details of the subject; and
4) Discover the entrepreneurial mindset.
Class Schedule, Guidelines, Policies and Requirements

• Course Code: ESTECH030 - TECHNOPRENEURSHIP

• Course Description:
Technopreneurship is a philosophy, a way of building a career or perspective in
life. The course covers the value of professional and life skills in entrepreneurial
thought, investment decisions, and action that students can utilize in starting
technology companies or executing R&D projects in companies as they start their
careers. The net result is a positive outlook towards wealth creation, high value
adding, and wellness in society.
Class Schedule, Guidelines, Policies and Requirements

• Schedule: Whole Semester

Every Saturday = 3 hrs per week
Class Schedule, Guidelines, Policies and Requirements
Blended Class
Onsite or Face-to-Face for class meetings, some class activities, and
examinations.
Online through MS TEAMS Class account for class materials,
handouts, homeworks and other take home tasks.

NOTE: See UNO-R official Facebook page for itemized details of the
Guidelines for Blended Classes.
 Class Schedule, Guidelines, Policies and Requirements
•Worksheets, Quizzes, Periodic Examination and Project Requirements
1.) Worksheets or Homework
Personal 1-minute video showing yourself and giving your insights for the
Week’s discussion/Topic on mp4 format.
2.) Quizzes
3.) Periodic Examinations
a.For Prelim Examination
1-minute “Elevator Pitch” to “sell” yourself as a potential business partner to be
delivered during the examination schedule.
b.For Midterm Examination
Proposal for “start up” with Team Composition
c.For Final Examination
Group Pitch for “start up” proposal presentation with paper prototype
 Worksheets or Homework……

Worksheets or
Homework
= video of personal
insights for the
week’s topic or
discussion
 Grading System
• Periodic Grade = 30% Worksheets /Homework + 30% Quizzes + 40%Examination

• Overall Grade = 25% Prelim Grade + 25%Midterm Grade + 50% Final Grade
 Class Details, Guidelines and Requirements

Course 1. Introduction
o Entrepreneurial Mindset
Contents o Innovation and Ideas
o Products and Services

= o Team Formation
2. Customers
 
General 3. Value Proposition
 
Topics 4. Market Identification and Analysis
 
5. Creating Competitive Advantage
 
6. Business Models
 
7. Introduction to Intellectual Property
 
8. Execution and Business Plan
 
9. Financial Analysis and Accounting Basics
 
10. Raising Capital
 
11. Ethics, social responsibility, and Globalization
Prelim Seatwork No. 1
• On a 1 whole pc of yellow pad paper, answer the following:
• 1.) In 5 to 10 years after graduation, how do you see or imagine yourself in line
with the practice of your profession or what is your career path? Answer in not
more than 10 sentences only.

• 2.) Is owning or creating your own company to provide product or service to

your client or customer a talent or an acquired skill? Discuss, explain or
rationalize in not more than 10 sentences.
INTRODUCTION TO
TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
Who is an ENTREPRENEUR?
• According to OXFORD Dictionary
Entrepreneur (NOUN)
• a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on
greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
• "many entrepreneurs see potential in this market“

• ORIGIN
• mid 18th century (denoting a person who undertakes a project): from French,
from entreprendre ‘undertake’ (see enterprise).
Who is an ENTREPRENEUR?
• Direct to the point:
• An entrepreneur
1.) is someone who has identified inefficiency, anomaly, problem or unexploited
opportunity in the market.

2.) and attempts to profit from it by creating and selling a solution.

Is it EASY TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR?
• Tasks?
• Risks?
• Success – failure?
• Capitalization?
• Etc, etc,etc…..
 Tasks an Entrepreneur must do:
• Ideation competition
• Team management , development and • Sales and evangelization
growth
• Customer management and support
• Product/service management
• deployment and system management
• Product design
• Accounting and budgeting
• Product marketing and Positioning
• Fund raising
• Customer qualification
• etc…
• Business and revenue modelling
• Competitive analysis and managing
An Entrepreneur’s PATH = A Journey of twists and turns
TEAM FORMATION TEAM MANAGEMENT
IDEATION

CHANGE TEAM
PIVOT CUSTOMER ACQUISITION

FINANCIAL STUDY
CUSTOMER DISCOVERY

PIVOT
PIVOT PIVOT AGAIN… REVENUE GENERATION

PRODUCT-MARKET FIT
IT IS ALRIGHT .. PIVOT AGAIN
PIVOT
SKILLS TRAINING
PROTOTYPING

THE PITCH
 Gravity

The Startup Journey

Scale

Go To
Market

Problem /
Solution Fit
1
Market
Idea Team Validation Product /
Customer Market Fit

2 Validation
User
Team Idea Validation

Team

3 Problem /
Application
Research
Problem /
Application
4 Team
Graveyard
Research

Singer Startup Journey Model (2016)

What an entrepreneur should be:
1.) Master of learning

Learn, learn and learn

2.) Adapting and improving on what they learned

• Becomes a teacher
2.) Adapting and improving on what they learned
Is Becoming an entrepreneur……

• A talent or gift?

• A skill learned?
Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Mindset of an Entrepreneur
Mindset of an Entrepreneur
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What about TECHNOPRENEURSHIP?
• TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
- compound word for
TECHNOLOGY + ENTREPRENUERSHIP
• If an entrepreneur
• Is someone who has identified inefficiency, anomaly, problem or unexploited
opportunity in the market. And attempts to profit from it by creating and
selling a solution.
• then a
• Technopreneur
• Is also someone who has identified inefficiency, anomaly, problem or
unexploited opportunity in the market and attempts to profit from it by
creating and selling a solution that is based on technology or engineering.
• Technology (NOUN)
• the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in
industry.

• machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific

knowledge.

• the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

Let us take the
journey …

the path of a
technopreneur…
Prelim Worksheet No. 1
Submit your Personal 1-minute video showing yourself and giving your insights
Introduction of Technopreneurship on mp4 format.

Submission link thru MS TEAMS. Due for submission on or before 9pm, Friday,
August 26, 2022
An Entrepreneur’s PATH = A Journey of twists and turns
TEAM FORMATION TEAM MANAGEMENT
IDEATION

CHANGE TEAM
PIVOT CUSTOMER ACQUISITION

FINANCIAL STUDY
CUSTOMER DISCOVERY

PIVOT
PIVOT PIVOT AGAIN… REVENUE GENERATION

PRODUCT-MARKET FIT
IT IS ALRIGHT .. PIVOT AGAIN
PIVOT
SKILLS TRAINING
PROTOTYPING

THE PITCH