ENTP

The Startup class is a fourteen-week course-plus-simulation designed to provide students with not only the basic tools and vocabulary of new ventures, but also a sense of what it feels like to start, fund, and manage such a venture. The course, by way of in-class case discussions, mentored group work, and startup simulations introduces students to a broad range of issues faced by founders and funders of both for-profit and non-profit ventures.

This course introduces special topics related to managing a variety of challenges that will be helpful to a student interested in learning how to prepare for, launch and operate a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. Topics within this course number are experimental and will evolve over time.

This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Entrepreneurship.

Students must first complete several self-paced asynchronous modules called Business Essentials, which cover introductory content in marketing, finance, strategic management, and accounting. Students will also engage in online synchronous coursework and write reflections on the psychology of decision-making, influencing, and teamwork. Concepts from both the online modules and coursework will be applied to a virtual, team-based micro internship.

Launch is a class-as-accelerator, through which a select group of admitted students would further develop over the course of a semester a venture of their own design. The course experience is comprised of not only a curriculum focused upon customer, product, and venture development, but also the mentoring of ventures by experienced founders, investors, lawyers, and other members of the new venture community.