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Nathan Wilson
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Winter 2016 - The first half of this class you learn about the Business Model Canvas. Within the first week, you split up into groups of roughly 4 people. You create a startup idea and just run with it for the full 10 weeks. During that time, you try to create your business's version of the Business Model Canvas. During the last week of the course, you present it to the other students and to the professors. This term-long project is the focus of your discussion sections (which are mandatory). During the second half of the class (while you're working on the BMC for your startup idea) they bring in some guest lecturers and talk about other aspects of creating a startup (corporations v partnerships, term sheets, IP, patents, etc.). The readings give more detail on these projects. All of the readings are fair games for the exams. The final is cumulative. They post a review of the important slides, which you should definitely look over and memorize. Some of the short answers will ask you to draw the important diagrams from the review slides. If you skim through the readings and look over the slides, the exams are straightforward (a mixture of multiple choice and short answer). Overall: an interesting class, cool to run with a startup idea and see how it evolves while engaging in the lean startup process.
Winter 2016 - The first half of this class you learn about the Business Model Canvas. Within the first week, you split up into groups of roughly 4 people. You create a startup idea and just run with it for the full 10 weeks. During that time, you try to create your business's version of the Business Model Canvas. During the last week of the course, you present it to the other students and to the professors. This term-long project is the focus of your discussion sections (which are mandatory). During the second half of the class (while you're working on the BMC for your startup idea) they bring in some guest lecturers and talk about other aspects of creating a startup (corporations v partnerships, term sheets, IP, patents, etc.). The readings give more detail on these projects. All of the readings are fair games for the exams. The final is cumulative. They post a review of the important slides, which you should definitely look over and memorize. Some of the short answers will ask you to draw the important diagrams from the review slides. If you skim through the readings and look over the slides, the exams are straightforward (a mixture of multiple choice and short answer). Overall: an interesting class, cool to run with a startup idea and see how it evolves while engaging in the lean startup process.
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Spring 2020 - Man where do I start. Professor Wilson is probably one of the worst professors I have ever had, and this course will probably be the most weeder course you will ever take if you decide to do the Entrepreneurship Minor. Theres a reason the minor pushes you to take this class ASAP before taking any other courses. Anyways, lets start from the beginning(P.S. i took this class during quarantine 2020). Straight off the bat, in the first lecture this guy was already a complete insensitive asshole. He basically told us that he did not care that there was a goddamn PANDEMIC going on and that he was not going to make any adjustments to the course and expected us to all put in the same amount of effort and work, which was super unrealistic. Later, a few kids had problems with taking quizzes due to internet problems and etc. and he basically told the kid “not my problem get over it” which really sucked and was hard to sit through and listen to. So the quarter goes on and he Starts to speak on the COVID situation and its effects on business and stuff. The first/second times he brought it up was sort of interesting, but it slowly devolved into his shitty takes and opinions on the matter which basically began taking up almost half of our lectures. He basically would tell us “stop worrying and being scared you wont die so stop complaining.” He was just so completely out of touch. Towards the last few weeks EVERYONE hated him. However, once protests and demonstrations began after the horrendous murder of george floyd, this guy proved himself to be the worst person possible. As students tried juggling a pandemic and standing in solidarity with fellow black bruins, this guy was absolutely tone deaf and refused to show any empathy or compassion towards his obviously struggling students. To sum it up, in an email to the class regarding the events and calls from students to adjust the course to be fair given the extreme circumstances, he basically said “life happens, get over it.” Every body in the class was appalled. It took countless emails and complaints from multiple students in the class to have him “adjust” the course, Which was just to have our final grades calculated two different ways and take the highest one of the two. The final was still fucking bad. 165 questions, 122 Multiple choice And 43 short answers. One of the most brutal final exams I have ever taken. I don’t know what my final grade is but I dont think I failed the course. However, if I would have taken this course in person I probably would have dropped it. To sum things up, Professor Wilson expects unbelievable things from his students, even during extraordinary circumstances. That alone should be enough to tell you the type of person he is. He expects you to do well on a final that he in no way prepares you for. Weekly quizzes are awful. The grading scheme is awful. The teaching style is awful. The final presentations are awful. The Group work is awful. This class needs a totally new professor and needs to be completely restructured, because as it is now, its a useless class that you get nothing out of. HOWEVER. If you are planning to do the entrepreneurship minor DO NOT take this class first. Do not let this class discourage you from pursuing it. All in all, fuck this class, and I hope to NEVER see professor Wilson EVER again. (I only mentioned Probably HALF of the things that made this course And professor wilson so shitty)
Spring 2020 - Man where do I start. Professor Wilson is probably one of the worst professors I have ever had, and this course will probably be the most weeder course you will ever take if you decide to do the Entrepreneurship Minor. Theres a reason the minor pushes you to take this class ASAP before taking any other courses. Anyways, lets start from the beginning(P.S. i took this class during quarantine 2020). Straight off the bat, in the first lecture this guy was already a complete insensitive asshole. He basically told us that he did not care that there was a goddamn PANDEMIC going on and that he was not going to make any adjustments to the course and expected us to all put in the same amount of effort and work, which was super unrealistic. Later, a few kids had problems with taking quizzes due to internet problems and etc. and he basically told the kid “not my problem get over it” which really sucked and was hard to sit through and listen to. So the quarter goes on and he Starts to speak on the COVID situation and its effects on business and stuff. The first/second times he brought it up was sort of interesting, but it slowly devolved into his shitty takes and opinions on the matter which basically began taking up almost half of our lectures. He basically would tell us “stop worrying and being scared you wont die so stop complaining.” He was just so completely out of touch. Towards the last few weeks EVERYONE hated him. However, once protests and demonstrations began after the horrendous murder of george floyd, this guy proved himself to be the worst person possible. As students tried juggling a pandemic and standing in solidarity with fellow black bruins, this guy was absolutely tone deaf and refused to show any empathy or compassion towards his obviously struggling students. To sum it up, in an email to the class regarding the events and calls from students to adjust the course to be fair given the extreme circumstances, he basically said “life happens, get over it.” Every body in the class was appalled. It took countless emails and complaints from multiple students in the class to have him “adjust” the course, Which was just to have our final grades calculated two different ways and take the highest one of the two. The final was still fucking bad. 165 questions, 122 Multiple choice And 43 short answers. One of the most brutal final exams I have ever taken. I don’t know what my final grade is but I dont think I failed the course. However, if I would have taken this course in person I probably would have dropped it. To sum things up, Professor Wilson expects unbelievable things from his students, even during extraordinary circumstances. That alone should be enough to tell you the type of person he is. He expects you to do well on a final that he in no way prepares you for. Weekly quizzes are awful. The grading scheme is awful. The teaching style is awful. The final presentations are awful. The Group work is awful. This class needs a totally new professor and needs to be completely restructured, because as it is now, its a useless class that you get nothing out of. HOWEVER. If you are planning to do the entrepreneurship minor DO NOT take this class first. Do not let this class discourage you from pursuing it. All in all, fuck this class, and I hope to NEVER see professor Wilson EVER again. (I only mentioned Probably HALF of the things that made this course And professor wilson so shitty)
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Winter 2018 - They structure the entrepreneurship courses like they're regular courses for the business school, so it was pretty fun to get to go to Anderson for a class on bringing new tech to market. Very interesting class that revolves around group work and culminates in a team presentation/report on a new technology that you choose, research for most of the quarter, and evaluate whether or not it should be taken to market. Workload was pretty manageable, completing weekly group case studies and researching till the end of the quarter when you definitely have to spend a bit of time getting ready for the presentation. Definitely recommend if you're into the tech industries.
Winter 2018 - They structure the entrepreneurship courses like they're regular courses for the business school, so it was pretty fun to get to go to Anderson for a class on bringing new tech to market. Very interesting class that revolves around group work and culminates in a team presentation/report on a new technology that you choose, research for most of the quarter, and evaluate whether or not it should be taken to market. Workload was pretty manageable, completing weekly group case studies and researching till the end of the quarter when you definitely have to spend a bit of time getting ready for the presentation. Definitely recommend if you're into the tech industries.
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