Fall 2006

Prof Jon Burgstone

Course description:  Primarily designed for upper-level and graduate students, this course explores key entrepreneurial concepts relevant to the high-technology world.  Topics include the entrepreneurial perspective, start-up strategies, business idea evaluation, business plan writing, introduction to entrepreneurial finance and venture capital, managing growth and delivering innovative products. This course prepares technical and business minded students for careers focused on entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and high technology.  Students undertake intensive study of actual business situations through rigorous case-study analysis.

Please read the Syllabus and Assignments tabs for more infomration about course modules, class format and entrepreneurship projects.

IEOR 190A is taught by Prof. Jon Burgstone and co-taught by Jacob Christfort, CTO of Wireless Applications at Oracle Corporation.

IEOR 190 is sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology.