Foundation of Entrepreneurship

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Foundations of Entrepreneurship (FOE) introduces the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in the varied ways that entrepreneurial activity manifests. FOE is predicated on the premise that entrepreneurial skills are measurable and malleable. This is why you will learn what an entrepreneurial mindset is, how to hone it, and when to apply it. In doing so, you will be exposed to each of the key stakeholders within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Your entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial mindset profiles will be measured as baselines at the onset of FOE and revisited at the culmination of the course. Regardless of your incoming characteristics, you will learn how you can ultimately play a valuable role in any given entrepreneurial environment—whether that may be as a founder, joiner, funder, mentor, advisor, policymaker, ally, or intrapreneurial project leader. Via self-assessment tools, exercises, field work, audio and video clips, cases, academic and practitioner articles, lectures, and guest speaker engagement, you will gain an understanding of this world and your potential contribution to it. Throughout FOE, you will conduct primary and secondary research to stand as close to the window of the entrepreneurial experience as possible, catching glimpses of its pleasures and pains. In the process, you will learn how to apply diagnostic technical skills to assess the feasibility of an entrepreneurial opportunity. As Georgetown graduates are apt to seek or otherwise encounter one or more entrepreneurial roles in their professional lives, FOE is relevant for every student eager to learn about the topic. This gateway course utilizes an “outside in” approach to opportunity exploration that serves as a precursor to the “inside out” approach of opportunity exploitation you can go on to experience in Launching Entrepreneurial Ventures (LEV).