Entrepreneurship: Small Business Modeling and Feasibility Analysis

3 credits

This course addresses early stage elements of starting up and operating a small business on a conceptual level. Using cases, competitions and experiential exercises, students will learn opportunity alertness and identification, building a value proposition, testing business hypotheses, creating competitive advantage, setting up financials, analyzing break even, charting growth and planning for exit. Students develop, build and test an entrepreneurial opportunity they identify, and assess its feasibility. The course applies to all business start up including non profit, for profit, for benefit and corporate or institutional intrapreneurship. ***Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 30 credit hours of university studies.*** *Note: Students may only receive credit for one of BUS 302, ADMN 302, and ENGG 436.*