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.

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.

All i can say it was a terrible experience. They want you to finish over two hundred questions in one and half hour.

Not a good nor helpful professor. You would bring your GPA down and learn nothing basically.