CS Curricula

Courses tagged with entrepreneur

    COSI 102a: Software Entrepreneurship (4) entrepreneur

    Covers the fundamental concepts needed to transform an idea for a software application into a viable IT business. The focus of the course is on software-based IT enterprises and the specific challenges and opportunities they present. Learn the 'Lean Startup' process in this course with a significant hands-on focus. Usually offered every year. (Brandeis)

    CS 147: Digital Ventures Design (9) entrepreneur

    This course aims to offer the scientific foundations of analysis, design, development, and launching of innovative digital products and study elements of their success and failure. The course provides students with an opportunity to experience combined team-based design, engineering, and entrepreneurship. The lectures present a disciplined step-by-step approach to develop new ventures based on technological innovation in this space, and with invited speakers, cover topics such as market analysis, user/product interaction and design, core competency and competitive position, customer acquisition, business model design, unit economics and viability, and product planning. Throughout the term students will work within an interdisciplinary team of their peers to conceive an innovative digital product concept and produce a business plan and a working prototype. The course project culminates in a public presentation and a final report. Every year the course and projects focus on a particular emerging technology theme. Not offered 2023-24. (Caltech)

    COMS W4460: Prin-Innovatn/Entrepreneurship (3) entrepreneur

    Team project centered course focused on principles of planning, creating, and growing a technology venture. Topics include: identifying and analyzing opportunities created by technology paradigm shifts, designing innovative products, protecting intellectual property, engineering innovative business models (Columbia)

    COMP_SCI 473-1: NUvention: Web - Part 1 (1) entrepreneur

    NUvention: Web is an interdisciplinary experiential learning program designed to expose students to the entire product and business development life cycle for a software company. (Northwestern)

    COMP_SCI 473-2: NUvention: Web - Part 2 (1) entrepreneur

    NUvention: Web is an interdisciplinary experiential learning program designed to expose students to the entire product and business development life cycle for a software company. (Northwestern)

    CS 269I: Incentives in Computer Science (MS&E 206) (3) entrepreneur

    Many 21st-century computer science applications require the design of software or systems that interact with multiple self-interested participants. This course will provide students with the vocabulary and modeling tools to reason about such design problems. Emphasis will be on understanding basic economic and game theoretic concepts that are relevant across many application domains, and on case studies that demonstrate how to apply these concepts to real-world design problems. (Stanford)

    CSE 175: Successful Entrepreneurship for Engineers (4) entrepreneur

    A foundation course teaching the basics of starting and running a successful new business. Students learn how to think like entrepreneurs, pivot their ideas to match customer needs, with financial, market, timeline feasibility inputs. The end goal is an investor pitch and a business plan. (UCSD)