MAI622: AI Entrepreneurship - Resources

Resources

Centre for Entrepreneurship

• C4E Web site.
• Announcements of Seminars and Activities.
• The Student Innovators Competition - SINN2021.

Textbooks

• Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship.” Wiley, 2013.
• Dan Olsen, “The Lean Product Playbook. How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback.” Wiley, 2015.
• Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, “Business Model Generation.” Wiley, 2010.
• Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan, "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future." Currency, 2021.
• Ash Fontana, "The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence." Penguin, 2021.

Learning Material - Slides

• Learning Material (slides etc) from the Master programmes in Artificial Intelligence 4 Careers in Europe – University of Cyprus.

Suggested Readings on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship Methodologies and Workbooks

• Bill Aulet, “Disciplined Entrepreneurship Workbook.” Wiley, 2017.
• Steven G. Blank, “The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Successful Strategies for Products that Win.” Lulu, 2006 (pdf).
• Eric Ries, “The Lean Startup.” Penguin, 2011.
• Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz, "Sprint. How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days." Bantam Press, 2016.

Innovative Companies

• Ben Horowitz, “The Hard Thing about Hard Things.” Harper Business, 2014.
• Clayton Christensen, “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change).” Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
• Brad Stone, “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon.” Corgi, 2014.
• Peter Thiel with Blake Masters, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” Virgin Books, 2015.
• Steven Levy. "In the Plex." Simon & Schuster, 2011.
• Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace. "Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration." Random House 2014.

Economy and Innovation

• Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary. "Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You." W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
• Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future." Princeton University Press, 2022.

Ideation, Prototyping, Innovation Management

• Laura Klein, “UX for Lean Startups.” O’Reilly, 2013.
• Tim Brown, “Change by Design.” Harper Collins, 2009.
• Tom Kelley and David Kelley, “Creative Confidence.” Harper Collins, 2014.

Entrepreneurship - General

• Silicon Valley's lexicon explained (The Guardian).
• A brief history of Salesforce and key lessons for B2B.

Intellectual Property

• Inventor's Handbook by the European Patent Office.
• Intellectual Property Licensing Bulletin No. 1, EU IP Helpdesk (June 2019).
• 4iP Council.

Entrepreneurship - Funding

• Raising Seed Capital? Here’s Your 2018 Guide on How To Do It Successfully. by Pahul Signh.
• Top 4 mistakes when taking VC funding, Venturebeat 2019.
• What VC funds wish your startup knew about their selection process, The Next Web, 2019.

Entrepreneurship - Pitching

• The art of the Elevator Pitch. Harvard Business Review.
• How to write the best pitch deck?
• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch by Guy Kawasaki.

Suggested Readings on AI's Potential Impact

Technology Predictions and Vision

• Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan, "AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future." Currency, 2021.
• Eric Topol, “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.” Basic Books, 2019.
• IEEE Computer Society. Technology Predictions 2024..
• Andrew Ng, AI Transformation Playbook: A Leader's Guide to Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence, 2018.

The Impact of AI and Data Science

• Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher, "The Age of AI And Our Human Future." John Murray, 2021.
• Kai-Fu Lee. "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order." Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
• Cade Metz, “The Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A.I. to Google, Facebook, and the World.” Random House Business, 2021
• Cathy O’Neil, “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.” Crown, 2016.
• Brad Smith and C.A. Browne, “Tools and Weapons. The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age” Penguin, 2019.

Overview of Generative AI and ChatGPT

• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? Stephen Wolfram.
• A Very Gentle Introduction to Large Language Models without the Hype, Mark Riedl.
• On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models, Stanford University.
• Generative AI and intellectual property by Benedict Evans, Aug. 2023.
• Generative AI as a New Innovation Platform by M. Cusumano, Oct. 2023, CACM.

Working with Generative AI and ChatGPT

• Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models, Google Research.
• The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey
• Prompt Engineering, OpenAI
• The Power of Prompting Microsoft Research.
• OpenAI Cookbook, OpenAI.

Impact of Generative AI and ChatGPT in Business and Entrepreneurship

• Insights by Boston Consulting Group on Generative AI.
• Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models, Kaddour et al.
• Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier: Field Experimental Evidence of the Effects of AI on Knowledge Worker Productivity and Quality, Harvard Business School.
• The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier, McKinsey.
• Generative AI at Work, Brynjolfsson et al, NBER.
• The Impact of Generative AI on Hollywood and Entertainment, MIT Sloan Management Review.
• Everything you need to know about AI in 2023: the 6 must-read blogs, World Economic Forum.
• Navigating the New Risks and Regulatory Challenges of GenAI, Cohen, Evgeniou, and Husovec, HBR.
• Navigating Trust and Safety in the World of Generative AI, Th. Evgeniou, INSEAD.
• How To Use ChatGPT to Make Money for Your Business, Shopify.

Tools and Online platforms

Online Courses on Tools

• AWS Academy: Explore Solutions with the Cloud offers modules introducing the use of AWS for building chatbots and doing data analytics.
• AWS Academy: ML Foundations.
• Building Language Models on AWS: online course by AWS.
• Foundations of Prompt Engineering: online course by AWS.
• Maxime Labonne. Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks .
• HuggingFace courses on NLP.

Tools for Prototyping AI Solutions

• Colab by Google for Python coding through your browser.
• OpenAI Developer Platform.
• OpenAI Playground.
• PartyRock a hands-on, generative AI app-building playground by AWS.
• Amazon Bedrock.
• ChatGPT Prompt Engineering guidelines.
• Prompt Engineering Guide.

Innovation Management

• Continuous innovation platform: Leanstack.
• Strategyzer: Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition.
• Launchpad Central for Lean Innovation.
• Review SimpleMind for ideation.

Collaboration, Coordination, Process Management

• Trello: A platform for team management.
• Slack: A platform for group communication.
• Process.st: A simple, free and powerful way to manage your team's recurring checklists and procedures.
• Google Meet, Google Hangouts, and Skype for group, video communications.

Equity, Finances, Pricing, Advertising

• Startup Equity Calculator.
• Venture Capital Calculator.
• Pricing worksheet.
• Ad Spend Calculator by QWILR.

Cloud Computing, Rapid Prototyping

• Heroku, a Cloud Application platform.
• Rapid App Prototyping with Proto.io.
• Scrum and agile.

Videos and Podcasts

• The Cognitive Revolution podcast and blog and the AI Scouting videos by Nathan Lebenz.
• James Mi '92: Entrepreneurship and VC Investments in China, YouTube, 2018.
• Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation - The Coming AI Upheaval, Youtube, 2019.
• Understanding and Designing for People, by Sheila Pontis, at the Keller Center for Entrepreneurship, Princeton University, February 2019.

Online Courses and Resources on Innovative Entrepreneurship

• Startup Playbook by Sam Altman, Y Combinator.
• Startup class by Sam Altman, Y Combinator (2014, Stanford University).
• Y Combinator's Startup School Platform.
• forEntrepreneurs. Blog by David Skok.
• Online Startup School Library by Y Combinator.
• Venture Hacks. Advice for startups.
• Stanford School of Business videos.
• Techcrunch.
• European Patent Office (EPO) e-Learning centre.
• European IP Helpdesk Library.
• Inventors' handbook, European Patent Office.
• Entrepreneurs' handbook.
• Startup guide.
• The Business Model Canvas course at Coursera.
• Andreessen Horowitz Newsletter.