Entrepreneurship for Engineers

Entrepreneurship for Engineers: Turn Your Innovation into an Impact Business

Aloha, Engineers of Hawai'i! Are you ready to transform your technical expertise into a thriving business that can make a real difference in our islands, mainland, and beyond? Introducing Entrepreneurship for Engineers—a four-part course designed to help you explore entrepreneurial opportunities, develop essential business skills, and turn your innovative ideas into successful ventures.

Our approach is especially relevant to complex, high-value solutions. These solutions could be hardware, software, a service (XaaS), or a professional service (consulting). The differences between these delivery models are more minor than most people realize.

Explore the value of your solution. There are many business options for delivering a solution. Many profitable business models do not match the parameters that interest investors. Is there a business model that can deliver your goals? Participants are expected to bring a product concept to explore with the course topics. The consequences of the basic concepts are more concrete with a personal use case.

Program Overview

Part 1: A Survey of Essential Concepts

• Session 1: The Entrepreneur, goals, career risk, what is success

• Session 2: Mission, Product, Value Proposition

• Session 3: Customers, Markets, Selling

• Session 4: Capital, Playing for Keeps, Managing Career Risk

Part 2: Building Your Business Model

A custom lab for small groups of attendees to help each other create their business models. This process will bring to life the benefits and risks of all the topics of Part 1. As the models are assembled, we will show how inaccuracies add risk to the business. The most common failures are the causes of running out of cash. For attendees already in business, this course will help discover new options for growth.

Use this link to register for the program or to request more information. Please be candid with your responses. We will use the information to assemble each cohort.  Please use this link to apply. Register  See the FAQ from more information.

Mahalo! 

Eugene Chang, eugene.chang@ieee.org

IEEE Entrepreneurship, Coach

Join Us and Make a Difference in Hawai'i!