The previous comment is very overdramatic, as I am in the class and the quarter hasn’t yet come to an end to put our final grades. While I think the professor could work on clarifying the math involved in the lessons, I don’t think he’s a bad professor at all. He has a lot of hands on experience in entrepreneurship and shows a lot of care and passion for the subject, with great practical advice and guest speakers that give you a glimpse into that world. The midterm was difficult for me, mostly because I didn’t study, but everything on the quiz was covered in the book or his lectures if you look back, so I wouldn’t say anything came out of left field. And a couple weeks after the midterm grades came out, he said if you do better on the final, he wouldn’t count your midterm grade, which I felt was extremely generous. And even if you don’t do well on the exams, there are a bunch of other easy A assignments to balance it out. I’d just warn that absences aren’t accepted in the class, and more than one results in a big grade drop. And if you do miss one, you’d have to do a 3 page summary of what happened in class based of the recording. The math aspects of the course do take time to adjust to, so reaching out to TAs is essential. Grade is divided into Attendance, Participation, (20 question online) Weekly Assessments, midterm, a paper based on an interview with an entrepreneur and the final. Overall good teacher, good TAs, and the concepts aside from the math are simple to understand. He does seem to do what he can to get people higher grades— as shown through his willingness to drop the midterm for higher final scores. So I would highly recommend taking him!

This class was very interesting! Prof Nathanson is very knowledgeable and an engaging lecturer. The guest speakers were very interesting too. There are quite a few readings and online assignments, but they are very manageable. It seems as though the class did not do very well on the midterm/final. However, if you throughly study the textbook and do the practice problems, it is very easy. The Prof also uses the basic Anderson grade distribution (about 50% As). Easy class overall!

Professor Nathansom is the man. While it's week 10 and I have not yet got my final grade, I can truly say I learned a lot from his course. Prof Nathanson has many businesses of his own and actually practices what he preaches.

Grade breakdown
45 percent of the class is free points based on completion assignments, attendance and participation. The rest of your grade comes from the midterm worth 15 percent, final worth 30 percent and 10 percent for assignment where you have to interview an entrepreneur. The exams are just memorization of concepts.

Very interesting and engaging class, and manageable even for non majors. The professor is super knowledgeable and speaks from experience. I got a really solid understanding of entrepreneurship from this class, would definitely take it again.

I really liked this professor. He is clearly very knowledgable and learning from someone who has actual experience in entrepreneurship made the class so interesting! There are some lengthy assignments but nothing difficult. You're also graded based on attendance, participation, cases (which are easy and mainly have to do with summarizing or personal opinions), midterm, final, paper, and reading assignments (through CONNECT). Therefore, it's easy to improve your grade if you didn't do well on a final or midterm because there's so much taken into account! Also, the exam is memorization based, The information he presented was engaging and interesting and I definitely recommend his class!

Probably my favorite class I have taken at UCLA and prof Nathanson makes every class super entertaining and truly speaks from experience. Overall great prof.