MGMT 161
Business Plan Development
Description: Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 160. Fundamentals of developing effective business plans, both in presentation and written form. Basic principles of designing and articulating plans for sales, marketing, product or service, operations, financials, management, and staffing functions of new startup businesses. How to develop well-written investment-quality business plans and business plan presentations, understand various analytical processes required to produce such plans, improve student writing and oral presentation skills, and formally present their business plans to audience of angel and venture capital investors. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2020 - First, if you can, take other professor's 161, if you cannot, this class is also doable. The workload depends on your willingness to work, it can be easy if you do not care, and very stressful if you do. The professor is more a businessman than a professor. His reviews on our presentations are constructive mostly. But he is not a good professor. The class is not well organized as mentioned by other reviews, and not fair from the beginning. Some people get projects with real serial entrepreneurs outside the school, some develop the business based on the idea they came up on the first class. And yeah, he is very much a big ego guy who loves to show off... Even though this has nothing to do with the class, but it kind of piss people off... I did not want to give him a review until he sent out emails blaming students who wrote bad reviews on bruinwalk (honestly they are not hate comments) and ask other students to write good reviews... He values his bruinwalk rating more than students' true feelings towards the class. And he gives out critiques to students saying it helps you improve, but won't take critiques from students. Both good reviews and bad reviews on here are saying the truth, I guess if you are his kind of person, and you don't mind his personality, this class is fine for you.
Winter 2020 - First, if you can, take other professor's 161, if you cannot, this class is also doable. The workload depends on your willingness to work, it can be easy if you do not care, and very stressful if you do. The professor is more a businessman than a professor. His reviews on our presentations are constructive mostly. But he is not a good professor. The class is not well organized as mentioned by other reviews, and not fair from the beginning. Some people get projects with real serial entrepreneurs outside the school, some develop the business based on the idea they came up on the first class. And yeah, he is very much a big ego guy who loves to show off... Even though this has nothing to do with the class, but it kind of piss people off... I did not want to give him a review until he sent out emails blaming students who wrote bad reviews on bruinwalk (honestly they are not hate comments) and ask other students to write good reviews... He values his bruinwalk rating more than students' true feelings towards the class. And he gives out critiques to students saying it helps you improve, but won't take critiques from students. Both good reviews and bad reviews on here are saying the truth, I guess if you are his kind of person, and you don't mind his personality, this class is fine for you.