The EPP will answer two questions: A. What are the three most important features
of entrepreneurship to me? and B. What are three ways that redemptive entrepreneurship can be used to help
others less fortunate than me?
The second paper will provide an opportunity to revisit those basic/core tenets from a more informed
position. While in most cases it is not necessary to write an entirely new paper from scratch, the second EPP
should be significantly revised based on your expanded learning over the course of the semester. These position
papers are highly editorial in content yet must include significant citations drawn from the various readings and
class lectures. Each paper, if properly done, should be approximately four pages in length, single-spaced, 12-
point font. Please don’t include “fluff” in your writings to lengthen the paper. Make them succinct, cited, and
detailed.
There are notes on the first EPP file that is attached that can be seen by opening document in Microsoft Word
1. Drucker, Peter F. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practices and Principles, 1985. Harper & Row, New York.
2. Ries, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically
Successful Businesses, 2011. Crown Publishing Group, New York.
3. Thiel, Peter and Masters, Blake. Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups, or How to Build the Future, 2014. Crown
Publishing, New York.
4. All of the following are Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles (you can find them with a modest amount
of curiosity via google searches, or purchase them directly from HBR):
a. “How to Write a Great Business Plan”
by William A. Sahlman, HBR July-August 1997 (reprint 97409)
b. “HBR’s List of Audacious Ideas for Solving the World’s Problems”
by various authors, HBR January-February 2012 (reprint R1201B)
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c. “The For-Benefit Enterprise”
by Heerad Sabeti, HBR November 2011 (reprint R1111F)
d. “It’s Hard to be Good”
by Alison Beard and Richard Hornik, HBR November 2011 (reprint R1111E)
e. “Surviving Disruption”
by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen, HBR December 2012 (reprint R1212C)
f. “What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong”
by Vincent Onyemah, Martha Rivera Pesquera, and Addul Ali, HBR May 2013 (reprint 1305D)
g. “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything”
by Steve Blank, HBR May 2013 (reprint R1305C)
h. “Six Myths About Venture Capitalists”
by Diane Mulcahy, HBR May 2013 (reprint R1305F)
i. “How to Negotiate with VCs”
by Deepak Malhotra, HBR May 2013 (reprint R1305F)
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