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What is Entrepreneurship? The most widely recognized definition of entrepreneurship is "Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled". Pursuit: the attitudes, beliefs, and actions of an individual entrepreneur — passion, drive, resiliency, focus, a sense of urgency, discipline, and balance Opportunity: the type of venture — an innovative offering, new business model, better, cheaper, or more efficient offering, or targeting new customers Beyond resources controlled: the external constraints on the entrepreneur — manage risk to gain access to resources and leverage what you DO have   Here is the perceived hurdles: Experience/Credibility: younger students have been shown through activities…

Basic Topics What entrepreneurship is How to come up with ideas Doing market research and finding your customer Creating value for your customer Knowing how to capture and sustain value Selling and pitching Advanced Topics Entrepreneurial finance and accounting — no spreadsheets Team formation Product development and coding A program for established companies to further their business How to get funded   Strategy Entrepreneurship Foundation and Ideation — first, we'll cover some foundations in entrepreneurship, sharing common hurdles and how to overcome them, plus what a career as an entrepreneur might be. Then, you'll go through the idea generation (ideation)…

In a recent interview, Joel Spolsky (the co-founder of StackOverflow) declared that the three things he would advise new programmers to learn are economics, writing and C programming. At first glance, that might seem like a curious choice, yet digging deeper soon reveals the wisdom of those words.  Spolsky advises learning economics, because “programmers often don’t know that and consequently don’t understand how they add value to a business”. Think about that for a minute. How often do we hear designers and developers complaining about nightmare clients and their unreasonable demands? I’ll give you a clue, it’s pretty often. But…