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Throughout this hands-on course, students ideate, develop, and iterate their own product or service startup in an attempt to gain investment funds in a final pitch event. Real entrepreneurs and business experts serve as volunteer coaches and mentors guiding student teams through the processes of developing hypotheses about a business concept, testing those hypotheses, adapting, and continually learning and improving.

The businesses students build are real – they are not business cases or simulated experiences – which means students experience mistakes, take risks, and learn to pivot based on market needs. Students leave the course with a completed one-page business plan, competitive analysis, financial model, minimum viable product, pitch deck, future communications plan, and future funding plan.