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ENTRE 370 Introduction to Entrepreneurship (4)
Introduction to entrepreneurial practices with an emphasis on learning how to find business ideas, how to evaluate their potential, and how to recognize the barriers to success. Exposure to the stresses of a start-up business, the uncertainties that exist, and the behavior of entrepreneurs. Prerequisite: ACCTG 225; ECON 200; ECON 201.
ENTRE 402 Managing Rapid Growth Companies (4)
Focuses on developing and managing rapid-growth businesses. Topics include developing and executing business plans in markets poised for rapid growth, expanding beyond niche segments, seeking venture financing from private and public markets, and managing and directing growth appropriate hiring and market expansion. Prerequisite ENTRE/MGMT 401.
ENTRE 440 Business Plan Competition Practicum (4)
Explores the challenges/requirements of transforming an idea into a business. Emphasizes developing business concepts/strategy, marshalling resources, providing the business model, and creating strategic plans for growth. Students must attend the business plan competition resource nights and participate in the business plan competition held the following quarter.
ENTRE 472 Creating a Company I (4-)
Two-course sequence with ENTRE 473. Working in teams, students develop a business plan for a new venture, present their plans to a panel of investors, obtain funding, run the business, and exit the firm at the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite: ENTRE 370. Offered: AW.
Instructor Course Description:
John R Castle
ENTRE 473 Creating a Company II (4)
Two-course sequence with ENTRE 472. Working in teams, students develop a business plan for a new venture, present their plans to a panel of investors, obtain funding, run the business, and exit the firm at the end of the second quarter. Prerequisite: ENTRE 472. Offered: WSp
ENTRE 490 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (1-6, max. 6)
Prerequisite: ENTRE 370.
ENTRE 509 Foundations of Entrepreneurship (2)
Evaluation of new market opportunities and starting a new venture, focuses on identifying and evaluating new venture opportunities, developing and testing market strategies, evaluating test market performance, and evaluating business plans. Emphasizes the interplay between marketing, manufacturing, finance, accounting and team management. Prerequisite: Permission of School of Business Administration. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Emer Dooley
ENTRE 510 Entrepreneurial Ventures (4)
Uses the tools of competitive strategy to analyze the success and failure of entrepreneurial ventures, identifying general strategic principles that might increase the probability that an entrepreneurial venture will succeed. Draws heavily on the principles of microeconomics and strategy. Prerequisite: B A 500; B A 502.
Instructor Course Description:
Corey C Phelps
ENTRE 511 Entrepreneurial Marketing (2)
Focuses on marketing issues related to the generation and development of innovative ideas, assessment of feasibility, implementation and execution, and valuation of business ventures, highlighting the real world applications by new ventures. Prerequisite: B A 501 and entrepreneurial bridge course.
ENTRE 530 New Venture Creation and Managing Growth (4) Song
Focuses on gaining experience in market analysis, new venture strategy formulation, and the management of a new venture. Topics include building an entrepreneurial firm, market opportunity analysis, product testing, developing and executing business plans, venture financing, and managing a growing company. Prerequisite: B POL 509; B A 501. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
John R Castle
ENTRE 531 Developing Business Models for Emerging Technologies (4) Song
Focuses on the commercialization of emerging technologies. Topics include conducting feasibility assessments of intellectual property landscape, evaluating business opportunities, analyzing competition, developing business models and strategies, constructing a professional quality business plan, and presenting business plan, transforming a new technology into a market-ready technology-based business. Offered: W.
Instructor Course Description:
John R Castle
Erik Stenehjem
ENTRE 532 Software Entrepreneurship (4)
A case- and project-based course, focusing on starting a software or hardware company. Guest entrepreneurs, lawyers, and financiers discuss market identification and analysis, planning the business, financing, and typical operating and administrative problems.
ENTRE 540 Entrepreneurship Practicum (2, max. 4) Bigley, Sundem
Enables students interested in new venture creation to explore their entrepreneurial aptitude by competing in a Business Plan Competition offered by the Center for Technology Entrepreneurship. Requires enrollment in the CTE certificate program. Credit/no credit only.
ENTRE 541 Technology Commercialization Practicum (4) Derrickson, Kotha
Provides the experience of researching and creating a commercialization plan for a promising technology. Designed to apply the skills and perspectives of students in cross-disciplinary teams so they learn how to work effectively with peers in assessing complex and potentially ambiguous situations. Offered: W.
ENTRE 542 Venture Capital Investment Practicum (2) Dooley, Sigl
Provides overview and teaches the mechanics of the venture capital industry and culminates in intramural venture capital competition. Students assume the role of investors in a venture capital firm and real entrepreneurs pitch to them for investment dollars. Teams defend their allocation decisions before a judging panel of venture capitalists. Credit/no credit only. Offered: A.
ENTRE 557 Entrepreneurial Finance (4)
Analyzes the unique financial issues facing entrepreneurial firms. Topics include assessing financial performance, financial forecasting and planning, financial management of rapidly growing businesses, start-up ventures, valuation, sources of financing, venture capital, initial public offerings, and the decision to harvest. Prerequisite: MBA core courses. Offered: jointly with FIN 557.
ENTRE 579 Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (2-4, max. 12)
Topics vary. Offered only when faculty members are available and there is sufficient student interest.
Instructor Course Description:
John R Castle
Emer Dooley
Erik Stenehjem
Susan Schreter
ENTRE 581 Theoretical Foundations of Entrepreneurship (4) Song
Focuses on theoretical overview, entrepreneurs, environment and organizational founding, entrepreneurship's links with other disciplines, venture capital and venture capitalists, new venture strategy and performance, growth processes and challenges, and entrepreneurial networks and alliances. Class sessions review and critique assigned readings associated with each topic. Offered: A.
ENTRE 590 New Venture Research Practicum (4) Kotha, Song
Exposes students to new venture creation phenomena. Teaches how to think about and understand empirical research methods such as case studies, participant-observation, and other field methods while contributing to on-going cumulative data collection process.
ENTRE 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
