Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Have acquired personal and team-based experience and understanding of new venture creation processes
- Engaged with tools of new venture creation process to identify a potential business opportunity and provisionally test it in the market place
- Deal with uncertainty, risk and failure in the world of entrepreneurship – and learned to grow from the experience
- Synthesised main theories, principles and concepts of entrepreneurship research with your own personal and professional insights of entrepreneurship
- Identify how principles of entrepreneurship can be applied in a wide variety of contexts
Indicative Module Content:
Introduction to the Module
Ideation & Design Thinking
The Business Model Canvas (BMC)
Lean Startup
Customer Development, MVP, Early Adopters
Raising Finance What are the options? Challenges?
Prototyping: Build a prototype
Pitch Preparation
Final Pitch - Presented before the class and invited guests