Class participants are graduate students with technical or non-technical backgrounds, however mostly graduate MBA and Engineering students participate, who have a career goal of becoming tomorrow's leaders as entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs within established firms), venture capitalists, investment bankers, management consultants, or senior functional executives in highly innovative and rapidly changing firms. Sorry, no auditors can be accommodated in the course.

What Students think

"A ton of work, and a great class!"

"I will recommend this class to someone who wants to be an entrepreneur. This is a great class, exciting, but also, it is a lot of work, and if you don't love [entrepreneurship], you won't like it."

"I absolutely would recommend this class to other students interested in starting a business. I think the class did a great job of focusing on the key aspects of starting a business without belabouring any point. It was fast-paced and challenging, which I like, and intense. It really opened my eyes to a whole world I was ignorant of before."

"I would not recommend this to anyone who is not serious about it or does not have the time commitment. That fosters really bad team relations and is unfair to other teammates. I was glad to see that you made that very explicit in the beginning, so there were no surprises."

"This was the best class I have taken at Sauder[...] I learned a lot in the lectures, which is irregular for a non-homework type class, and learned even more working with my team. I spent probably double the time I have ever spent in any other course."

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