Professor Wilson teaches relatively easy and straight forward material but to boost himself up, he makes the exams unreasonably difficult and long. This would be especially hard if english is not your first language. His tests were all free response and 24+ pages long, which felt extremely excessive. On the final, I really tried my best to write as efficiently and fast as I could but it was such a long exam. Its not like they are hard, it is honestly was one of the stupidest exam that I ever took, he literally tested you on 4 different definitions of .entrepreneurship One answer was citing him self, two were from the book, and the last one was from the notes; also if you missed one word you didn't get it right. He doesnt even test you on if you have any understadning of the material, it is more like a test of how fast you can write and memorize random definitions. He even tested us on his "slang" that he used in class sometimes. My favorite part was the fact that on the midterm he wrote that after this line is EXTRA CREDIT questions. But since people did pretty good on the exam, he deicded to consider the extra credit part of the grade. What if some people decided not to answer them? The class material is very easy and not very helpful to CS major. Its not going tell you anything about how a start up works. If you are a cs major and have a dream to build your own company one day, don't take this course.

Overall, Nathan's a pretty chill guy, funny sometimes, but he lost his sxxt when half of the class didn't show up. I guess it was pretty self explanatory as to why they didn't show up. It got boring.

The tests were all memorization based; so, it would be more practical to cram it than listen to 1 hour 45 mins long lecture without a break. They go through so many materials at once, so, it's better that you take your time to study at home. (Or cram the night before) But, if you memorize all your readings and the slides, you should definitely be fine in terms of getting an A.

If you are an engineer, which most of you will be, and want to start a business, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. You can do better without this class. This is a class where you learn how to put yourself in a box. It's true and I understand that you want to know the market and pre-evaluate your product before you get it in the market; but, those only hinder your ability to do, make, and invent great things. Instead of wasting your money, youth, and time on something useless like this class, use your resources to build your product first. The least you can get out of it is something to put on your resume. SO, START TODAY.

This class has a LOT of information packed into each class session (at least in the slides). For the tests you have to memorize most of the diagrams and many of the details in the (mostly) long readings for the long and tight-on-time exams. Professor is mostly helpful in office hours.
But, the class group project takes up a lot of time and you don't even get any feedback about your final project/ presentation grade [at least for this quarter] which is about 30%-40% of your grade {presentations + participation is graded on a scale relative to how others do}, and the grading for every presentation seems very arbitrary [because the rubrics for presentations are never released, you just get a number for some of the presentations].

I am not sure what I am learning from this class honestly. I never skipped any lectures, but I just never understood what he was trying to say. His lectures were very unorganized. It seemed like he only threw random stories that had little relation to the lecture materials. Instead of trying to make it fun, he ended up bringing unrelated materials. The exam? The exams were all pure memorization. You don't have to understand anything. As long as you can memorize, that's good enough. I learn nothing from this class. There is a group project as well. Honestly though, it is completely meaningless. Everyone faked their interviews. Go take ENGR 110 or 111. These classes are more fun and better.

This class is a total waste of time.

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.