New Venture Management

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide foundational insights a tools for students considering developing, joining, investing in, or partnering with massively scalable (ie: potentially venture backable) ventures (startups). The course will introduce students to foundational topics in entrepreneurship, including a framework for developing an entrepreneurial strategy. The assigned work focuses on the key choices of customer, competition, technology and identity that founders should make, as well as whether ventures pursue a control versus execution focus.