Fall ’22 Curriculum Volunteer Instructors

Venture Capital Track

Session 1: Industry Overview VC Careers & What VC’s - Taught by VC Professional

Session 2: Investment Criteria - Taught by VC Professional

Session 3: Valuation and Dilution - Taught by VC Professional

Session 4: Defining Users and Customer Personas - Taught by Clean Cut Kenny Professional

Session 5: Competitive Landscaping Analysis and Market Mapping - Taught by VC Professional

Session 6: Understanding Business Models - Taught by VC Professional

Session 7: Defining and calculating TAM - Taught by VC Professional

Session 8: Growth KPIs - Taught by VC Professional

Session 9: Sourcing Strategies: Value Proposition - Taught by VC Professional

Session 10: Sourcing strategies: Screening and Vetting deals - Taught by VC Professionals

Entrepreneurship Track

  • Luke Cooper from Latimer Ventures - Session 1: Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset

  • Chibuze Ihenacho from Armr - Session 2: Problem Identification Workshop

  • Morgan Gantt from Plume Design, Inc - Session 3: Generating Solutions to problems

  • Jen Glover from Clean Cut Kenny - Session 4: Defining User and Customer personas

  • Ali Aly from (BVCC) - Session 5: Competitive Landscaping Analysis and Market Mapping

  • Adeleke Omitowoju from (BVCC)- Session 6: Understanding Business Models

  • Ali Aly from (BVCC)- Session 7: Defining and calculating TAM

  • Melissa Rubes from Google- Session 8: Conducting user Interviews

  • Tony Cappaert from Lead Generation, Strategic Growth- Session 9: Value Proposition

  • April Johnson from Happied- Session 10: Developing your MVP & GTM Strategy

Product Management Track

  • Jammal Dorsey from Humanity Health- Session 1: Product Management 101

  • Chibuze Ihenacho from Armr - Session 2: Problem Identification Workshop

  • Morgan Gantt from Plume Design, Inc - Session 3: Generating solutions to problems

  • Jen Glover from Clean Cut Kenny- Session 4: Defining Users and Customer Personas

  • Diamonde Henderson from BLCK VC - Session 5: Product Development Methodologies

  • Morgan Gantt from Plume Design, Inc - Session 6: Writing Effective Requirements

  • Rafael Balbi from Northwestern University - Session 7: Roadmap prioritization/ release planning

  • Juan Bell Jr. from Remind - Session 8: Intro to Data Analytics

  • Michael Olajide from The New York Times - Session 9: Developing a Launch Plan

  • Quiana Wright from Bleacher Report - Session 10: Post Launch/ Next Steps/Product Growth

User Experience Design Track

  • Monica Caraway from Google - Session 1: Intro to UX Design

  • Tracy Easter from Google - Session 2: Design thinking Workshop

  • Tracy Easter from Google- Session 3: How to define the User and customer persona

  • Marianne Abreu from Google - Session 4: Visual Design, Wireframing and Prototyping

  • Marianne Abreu from Google - Session 5: UX Design Patterns & Systems/ Interaction Design

  • Obinna Anya from Google - Session 6: Information Architecture

  • Philip Rowe from Google - Session 7: Design Handoff

  • Elizabeth Bell from Google - Session 8: Intro to Atomic Design/ Accessibility & Inclusive Design

  • Rahul Jain from Google - Session 9: User Interface Platforms/ Mediums

  • Xiaofang Fan from Google - Session 10: Design Implementation/ Iteration

User Experience Research Track

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 1:  Intro to UX Research in Early Product Development

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 2: Exploring the Problem Space 

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 3: User Interviews

    Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 4: Mapping the User Journey

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 5: Defining the User Problem + Opportunities

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 6: Concept Ideation

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 7: Concept Testing

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 8: Concept Study Synthesis and Insights + Communication

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 9: TBA

  • Katrina Pecot from Google - Session 10: TBA

Software Engineering Track

  • Isaac White from Google - Session 1: Intro & SDLC Part 1 (planning, defining, and designing)

  • Isaac White from Google - Session 2: SDLC Part 2 (building, testing, and deployment)

  • Chris Burke from …. - Session 3: Intro to Front- End Development

  • Hector Menchaca from Atlassian - Session 4: Intro to Back- End Development

  • Mari Lescaille - Session 5: Intro to API’s

  • Gus Kimble from Google - Session 6: Intro to Databases

  • Ahmir Robinson from JPMorgan Chase & Co - Session 7: Cloud Computing & Service

  • Erik Miller from Riot Games - Session 8: Security

  • Charlie Scott - Session 9: Async/Synchronous programming & concurrency/ Parallelism

  • Alka Jarvis from UCSC Silicon Valley Extension - Session 10: Quality Assurance/ Testing