EMBA5118 EVALUATION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL LDEAS

Course Code:8375118
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):1 (1.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:2.0
Department:Executive Master of Business Administration
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
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Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the student with the tools needed to plan, launch, and grow a startup business from ideas to reality. There is a lot of failure in entrepreneurship, we believe that those completing this course will encounter it less often.

Coming up with entrepreneurial ideas; preparing business models; evaluating ideas; using lean startup tools to test important entrepreneurship assumptions; presenting business ideas to customers and investors.


Course Content

Coming up with entrepreneurial ideas; preparing business models; evaluating ideas; using lean starup tools to test important entrepreneurship assumptions; presenting business ideas to costomers and investors. Business Model Canvas and Lean Startup tools will be reviewed.


Course Learning Outcomes

Students completing this course will be able to:

  • Recognize the entrepreneurial potential within themselves and others in their environment.
  • Appreciate the role of entrepreneurship within society at the level of the organization and in their own personal life.
  • Understand the process nature of entrepreneurship and ways to manage the process.
  • Identify and screen potential business ideas.
  • Understand the early stage development of a business idea into an opportunity with the potential to generate profits.
  • Be able to use lean startup and customer development techniques to undertake business model generation and development.