| Date |
Lecturer |
Topic |
Readings (Required) |
Readings (Optional) |
| M Feb 6 |
JPS |
Intro, Course structure, What is a
CTO |
|
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| W Feb 8 |
JPS |
Organization structures and Role of
CTO |
| M Feb 13 |
Raymie Stata |
Becoming a CTO, and some key issues a
CTO deals with at Yahoo |
| W Feb 15 |
Jeevan Kalanithi |
Innovating at the boundary of tech
and businesss |
| M Feb 20 |
Qi Lu |
Managing Innovation |
|
|
| W Feb 22 |
JPS |
Starting a company: Coming up with
the idea/area, motivation, defining the market, the offering and the
business, building a team |
| M Feb 27 |
JPS |
Modeling a fledgling business;
customer acqusition and growth |
|
| Wed Feb 29 |
Fred Wilson |
Starting a company: Raising Money, and the Investor
Perspective |
|
| M Mar 5 |
JPS |
Starting and growing a company:
Validation, raising money, legal, getting the offering built |
|
|
| W Mar 7 |
Tom Pinckney |
Starting and growing a company:
Experiences from founders |
|
| M Mar 12 |
JPS |
Operationalizing the business:
Planning, Testing, Operating, Data |
|
| W Mar 14 |
Muneeb |
Gettting your business going on the
Cloud: Pros and Cons |
|
| M Mar 19 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
|
| W Mar 21 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
|
| M Mar 26 |
Muneeb |
Getting going on the cloud: Cloud
technologies (AWS, Hadoop, Cloud deployment and management) |
|
|
| W Mar 28 |
JPS |
Scalable Marketplaces: The Evolution
of online display advertising |
|
| M Apr 2 |
Chad Dickerson |
Building and scaling a marketplace
for crafts: Etsy |
|
| W Apr 4 |
JPS |
Achieving and Managing Scale: Open
versus Closed (PC, Mobile, Advertising Marketplaces), Conflicts of Interest |
|
| M Apr 9 |
Greg P (TB Confirmed) |
Managing Scale and Openness |
|
| W Apr 11 |
JPS |
Scalability and the boundary of
technology and business: An Open Advertising Exchange (linking versus trading
pit, scaling) |
|
| M Apr 16 |
Tom Papa, Endeca |
Achieving and Managing Scale: Growing
an organization, managing talent |
|
| W Apr 18 |
Urs Holzle, Google |
Managing Innovation in Larger
Organizations |
|
- Clay Christensen:
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- The Innovator's Solution
- Geoffry Moore:
- Crossing the Chasm
- Strategy and your Stronger Hand
- Jim Collins:
- Good to Great
- Built to Last
|
| M Apr 23 |
Christine Hunsicker |
Data and Metrics driven businesses |
|
| W Apr 25 |
JPS |
Pricing: Business, economics and
technical considerations (RM and GB) |
|
| M Apr 30 |
Kai Li |
From Startup to Public Company to
Acquisition: the Data Domain Story |
|
| W May 2 |
Greg Badros, Facebook |
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