Tech Startup Foundations
Faculty Profiles
Dmitry Skorinko
CEO at Eliport
Tair Assimov
CEO of Dockbit
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Overview
The overview of technologies and approaches for building a technology product in a startup environment, from an initial idea through MVP to high growth stage.
Learning highlights
- The course helps future startup founders to understand how technology products are built and how engineering teams are formed and managed. We will go through real-life examples of building technology startups, discuss the most critical areas and decision-making processes for developing a software product. Throughout this course, complex technical topics will be explained in simple language, leaving students with a solid foundation for running their own technology startups.
Course outline
4 classes
Foundation
Finding a technical co-founder. First tech hires. Forming a technical team. Working with external companies and freelancers.
Incident Response foundations
First product. What is a MVP. Projecting your first product. Lean and Agile approaches. Choose boring software. Launch your product. What do people usually forget?
Architecture
General technical architecture for common startups. Analysis of other startups from different sectors.
iOS
Mobile application development. Tools, frameworks, languages, devices and screens, architecture approaches. Design and analytics.
Prerequisites
This course is one of three in a wholistic series.
Students that have already taken MSL-111 and those with prior experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript building simple web pages will be good candidates for this module.
Dmitry is a tech entrepreneur from Barcelona, Spain. With a degree in Maths, and experience in the whole tech stack of modern startups, he is ready to share his knowledge of the truly technical side of tech entrepreneurship.
Having worked many years in software development and building lots of complex projects from scratch, Dmitry recently had the opportunity to be a technical lead on a successful on-demand delivery startup called Glovo (from Barcelona). Now switching to the CEO position, he is developing his own robotics project called Eliport.
See full profileTair Assimov is a techpreneur, mentor, and a software developer. For the past 12 years, he has been helping developers make better software.
Tair consulted companies of all shapes and sizes, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. He led product teams, taught Web development at universities and boot camps, and later bootstrapped a startup in developers tools space. Currently, Tair is building hassle-free customer support software at GrooveHQ and making software deployments simple with Dockbit.
- Dockbit
- Deveo
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Tech Startup Foundations
by Dmitry Skorinko, Tair Assimov
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Mar 12 - Mar 30, 2018
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
This depends on your case. Please check with the Spanish or Thai consulate in your country of residence about visa requirements. We will do our part to provide you with the necessary documents, such as the Certificate of Enrollment.
Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.