Impact Startup Launchpad

2 credits · Graduate

This course simulates the conditions in which students can become social venture designers, founders, and leaders, and learn to create a business model that intentionally integrates financial objectives with measurable social and/or environmental outputs. Students work in interdisciplinary teams to practice starting a social venture. This course uses the Lean Launchpad methodology from the Haas entrepreneurship curriculum to frame the strategies and practices that distinguish social ventures, including: innovative company legal structures, constitutional documents, stakeholder enrollment, business model design, and social impact assessment. Each team is matched with practitioners who will serve as social venture mentor coaches.