Introduces the entrepreneurial concepts of business management, including planning, raising capital, using business information, managing employees, and marketing products and services. The course includes the principles needed to operate a business and is designed for those who plan to have their own businesses and for those who desire to upgrade their skills in business management.
Prerequisites
None
Student Learning Outcomes
- Examine entrepreneurship and its evolutionary development and revolutionary impact.
- Describe the entrepreneurial mindset in Individuals: Cognition and Ethics.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of innovation: the creative pursuit of ideas.
- Explain social entrepreneurship and the global environment for entrepreneurship.
- Simulate a small business financial plan.
- Assessment of entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Describe the pathways to entrepreneurial ventures.
- Describe the sources of capital for entrepreneurs.
- Describe the legal challenges for entrepreneurial ventures.
- Describe the marketing challenges for entrepreneurial ventures.
- Describe financial preparations for entrepreneurial ventures.
- Develop an effective business plan.
- Explain strategic entrepreneurial growth.
- Describe the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures.
- Describe harvesting the entrepreneurial venture.