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MSE 454Technical Entrepreneurship

Units
0.50
Faculty
Engineering
Subject
Management Science and Engineering

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: scheduled, 2 lecture sections. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Technical entrepreneurship is examined considering the role of independent business, entrepreneurial behaviour, types of business and enterprises, business structure, sources of venture concepts and capital, company operation and control, and business startup.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Winter 2027 sections

Enrolment from UW Open Data, which can trail Quest by up to two days. Instructors and rooms: Schedule of Classes.
SectionClassEnrolledMeets
LEC 00150630 / 60Online or by arrangement
LEC 701204635 / 9999Online or by arrangement

Reviewed on UW Flow

75% liked it90% easy65% useful

From 12 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

  • Protip: Make a group that is solid, and this class will be a blessing, especially in 4th year. Marked generously with the opportunity to learn deeply if you so desire. You learn some decent concepts about business and it pairs so well with FYDP that if you do a good job with Capstone, it'll feel like this class flies by. Not a very hard class but truly a "take what you will" type of course that is so necessary for a heavy 4th year schedule.

    Apr 2024 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • A really good course if you are looking for a high 80 low effort course.
    The class is divided into 3-4 incubators each consisting of 3-4 groups. Each group comes up with a business idea and completes a bunch of milestones/ assignments throughout the course. A loot of people chose their FYDP capstone ideas as they already have a lot of data.
    There were about 4 milestones. The requirements for each milestone are more or less stated clearly in his blog, so you can easily figure out what is expected. The final milestone is basically an investor pitch (For us it was a ~10 min youtube video).
    With 6 members in a group, spent maybe 2 productive hours on average on each assignment individually.

    Apr 2020 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • In this course you will be put in what they call an 'incubator' which is a sub group within the class. As it turns out there is no dropbox for this courses, everything is done in your incubator which gets confusing. Every detail about the course is written in plain text and posted on learn in a number of pieces of content making searching through it all a taunting task. The course is laid out in a horrible manor and I do not recommend taking any class with Peter Carr. If you want to learn about entrepreneurship I'd suggest doing e-coop or taking an MBET course instead. But not this one.

    May 2015 · didn’t like itOn UW FlowRemove this

  • It's good idea to take the course if you have a start up idea want to learn about how to write business plan and skills on how to pitch the idea. It's also great for making 4th year design project into actual start ups.

    Oct 2012 · liked itOn UW FlowRemove this

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