ENT 495 - Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture (1-3)

Prerequisite(s): ENT 201 or ENT 301

This advanced course gives students more direct experience in launching, funding, and sustaining an entrepreneurial venture. Students work individually or as teams. They will work through a rigorous process of customer discovery. Students will pitch their business plan to investors, advisors and stakeholders. Students may have additional projects or activities in consultation with the entrepreneurship advisor, such as university and community competitions, academic or practitioner research, meet and interview investors and entrepreneurs, work with local businesses on their projects, among others.