1. Write down your current relationship with entrepreneurship.
2. Write down 2-3 goals of where you would like to be by the end of the semester.
3. How do you want to grow your entrepreneurial skills and endeavors?

1. What is Bass’s perspective on innovation?
2. How does he think technology should integrate with innovation?
3. Does this change your thinking on how we should go about innovation

1. What class did you attend?
2. Why did you pick that class?
3. What did you learn or discover?

1) Jot down when someone around you gets frustrated/upset, and the root cause of their concern

2) Submit your list and ideas for potential solutions

1) What does Adam articulate as the keys to a successful business?
2) How have you seen these aspects implemented as broader concepts in your own personal projects or career?

1) Which presentation helped you understand the research the best? How?
2) Which presentation made you want to know more about the research? How?
3) Which research do you think has the most potential? Why?

1. Think of a product that presents data: what 3 facts are crucial that the product showcases?
2. How do they communicate the data well?

1) What roadblocks did Glaub articulate as impediments to pharmaceutical success?
2) How does she manage to work with/through them?
3) In what creative ways can you navigate potential roadblocks to also innovate successfully?

1) Submit a picture of you with the entrepreneur.
2) Submit a url to a blog or a YouTube video with a reflection on what you learned, what surprised you, what you could relate to, what you couldn’t, etc.. Include the name of the entrepreneur and a brief description of thetheir endeavors.

1) How do you think and feel about health in your life?
2) Where do you see opportunities for building health into your everyday life?
3) A day in your life and think about where the path you are on leads to you healthy things and unhealthy things

1) What do Mike and Kevin teach us about career changes, expectations for after college, and navigating new fields?
2) How does this make you rethink your current stance towards your career?

Create a numbered list and tell us about the person you met on campus, their major, their job on campus, what are they interested in? what are their ambitions? What has been the most impactful experience for them at Cal? Did you find any commonalities? etc…

Reflect on teams that you’ve been in that have gone fantastically, and teams where you’ve been frustrated with your team members.

1. How do they differ in communication?
2. How could you have changed your communication in the team you were frustrated with to make it the fantastic team?

1) What does Aaron teach us about being a good leader?
2) What does Aaron teach us about starting a successful company?
3) How can we incorporate these lessons into our broader lives?

1. Write down 4 start-up ideas per day for a week (28 total)
2. Pick top 3; reflect on why you’re most drawn to those ideas, and how you came up with them.
3. Would you pursue these ideas?

1) What is William’s experience with failure, and his perspective towards it?
2) How can we use his experience to build our own paths of perseverance during difficult times?

For this challenge, students will automatically receive points after attending the final presentation. 

To qualify:

Each competing individual will need to present a slide deck (roughly 5-8 slides) with:

1. The name and description of the issue they are focusing on

   • The issue needs to be specific as well as have the name of the affected country/locale they are focusing on

     • Example: ‘lack of fresh water supply in Saudi Arabia’, not ‘water’

   • Description must include how the issue affects the population, and why is it a problem

2. The solution, including basic scientific background and financial information, and how the solution will work

   • This can be basic (ballpark numbers for cost, source of funds etc)

   • Science needs to be reasonable but not too high level if the candidate does not have a scientific background

3. Potential problems and how to overcome them

The slide deck should also have an introductory slide with the individual/team members’ photos, names and short descriptions (including major), similar to a business pitch.

1) Submit a document with links to sounds that define your story, whether that be songs, recorded sounds, or sounds taken online (ex: did you go camping as a kid? submit sounds of fire crackling!)

1) What piece of advice that Gurbaksh gave resonates with you the most?
2) How will you apply it in your everyday life to reach your goals?

1. Rate the tasks you have participated in on a scale of 1 to 5 (mark N/A if you have not participated in that task)
2. Which of the tasks you have participated in have been your favorite and why? (free response)
3. What would you change about the game (if anything) and why?

1. Reflect upon a hobby you really enjoyed as a kid: what was so engaging about it for you?
2. How could you take that hobby, and morph it into something that could potentially serve as a business or startup, so that more people can enjoy it as you did?

1) What is Dr. Jepsen’s perspective on getting people to use new technologies? 2) What can we learn from Dr. Jepsen about convincing consumers to adopt new innovations?

1) Which company/companies had the most compelling case for solving a demonstrated problem? 2) Which company/companies described their product and customer the best? What are they building and for whom? 3) Which company/companies demonstrated the best market opportunity and the most traction?

1. Do you have an idea that you’re set on? Or are you open to exploring new ideas?
2. How much time a week can you dedicate to working on a startup? How much do you need your potential co-founder to dedicate?
3. What areas of a startup (product, engineering, design, sales & marketing, operations) are you willing to take responsibility for? What do you need your co-founder to be responsible for?
4. What topics and industries are you interested in?
5. Is location of your co-founder important to you? How often would you like to work together IRL?

1. What do we learn about bridging corporate interest and public good from Mitchell?
2. How can companies serve the public good while still innovating?

Look through the companies Health Engine has worked with worked with

1. Pick one you like, and describe 2 potential challenges you think it might face in growing as a company in the healthcare industry
2. Describe any thoughts you have on how they could overcome the issue

1. What does Olivia teach us about innovating very common ideas and structures, and adapting them to fit another market?
2. How has this changed the way you view innovation?

1. How do you predict we will interface with technology in five years? How about 10? What about 50?
2. What lessons from previous technologies can we apply to future innovations?

1. What does Heather teach us about good data and incentives?
2. How can good data work well with helping people?