1. ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
RESEARCH CONSULTING
Project Start Up
Yonah Alexandre Bronstein, PhD
Session 1: Vision, Goals & Rules of the Game
ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
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2. ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
PSU Vision & Goals
ECS Class (Winter)
Learn the principles, grow start-up seed
PSU Project (Spring):
Sign up for CS regular OR MINI-Project Start Up
Official Supervisor: Prof. Shlomi Dolev
Meet Sundays 12:noon to 2pm, at Bldg 32, room 109; 2-3:office hour
Grow start-up seed into seedling with leaves: prototype, patent filing, customer reference, …
100% time Business (Summer)
Funded, or in Negev Incubator
ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
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3. ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
PSU Rules of the Game
Goal: Growing a Start Up seed AND Academic Learning!
Technical learning: engineering prototype/spec
Marketing learning: demo/movie/mock-up
Business learning: interactions with customers/investors
Process learning:
document weekly progress
present to (pseudo) Board of Advisors
Weekly 3 slide PPT: Goals, Accomplishments, Obstacles
ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
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4. ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
PSU Next Step
Goal: Work Proposal
List Goals on all 3 axes: Technical, Marketing, Business
Make (initial) Time Estimates:
Hard: offer intervals: [ optimistic , pessimistic ]
4u “Project” expectation: approx. 20 hr/week/person
2u regular or MINI-Project: <TBD> 
[Optional/MINI-Project req:] get Prof. Dolev’s feedback
ABUSE SUPPRESSION TECHNOLOGIES, ACTIVITIES, VISION.
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