ENGIN 183B
Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
This course offers the opportunity to understand the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BME) in an intensive format. The BME curriculum conveys the latest approaches for training global technology entrepreneurs. This method leverages insights on strategy, tactics, culture, and psychology with an accompanying entrepreneurial infrastructure. The curriculum is structured to provide an optimal global entrepreneurship experience from real life experiences.
Topics
- To understand common tactics in starting new ventures including a lean learning cycle. To understand the mindset of an entrepreneur, including the soft skills, behaviors, and psychological factors most likely to be needed to develop a new venture. * To understand and make use of the value of diversity in idea generation and new venture creation. Student should become aware of the infrastructure available through UC Berkeley that an support them in developing new ventures.
- Students should be able to follow a process of idea generation, rapid prototyping / venture story development, attraction of stakeholders, data collection, and hypothesis testing and regeneration. Students should become aware of the mindset and behaviour required for entreprenurship and be able to reinforce some of these behavious (eg rejection tolerance, comfort with failing or being wrong, inductive learning, venture story telling/communication abilities) through excercizes in the program. Students should be able to consider a greater number of ideas for global entrepreneurship by observing the effect of background diversity in the class.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027