StartUp School - Developing Entrepreneurial Mindset, 5 cr - WOR8HH022
Course unit language
English
Teachers
Petteri Tiljander
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Learning objectives
You will analyse yourself as an entrepreneur and learn to understand entrepreneurial lifestyle. By taking the first steps to define and develop the idea towards feasible business, you will start building your own entrepreneurial path. You also analyse and start to extend your entrepreneurial network during this course.
Contents
1. Me as an Entrepreneur
2. Entrepreneurship as a lifestyle
3. Customer problem and value proposition
4. Idea description and prototype creation
5. Network analysis and interview of the entrepreneur
6. Cost structure and revenue streams
7. Pitching your idea to the entrepreneurial society
Execution methods
Two f-2-f meetings, independent assignments, discussions and comments to the other students and pitching your idea.
Learning materials
Available on Claned
Starting level and linkage with other courses
You should have a business idea to work with before entering this course.
Assessment criteria
Assessment criteria - grade 1
Self-leadership
Student understands own strengths and development areas. He/she identifies own entrepreneurial vision.
Communication and networks
Student describes his own network and recognizes for whom (stakeholders) he needs to communicate the business idea.
Idea development
Student takes the first customer contacts to test the idea and vision. Student describes customer problem, solution and value proposition of the idea.
Team work
Contribution in the group discussions active and student gives feedback to the others.
Assessment criteria - grade 3
Self-leadership
Based on self-analysis and discussions with others, student recognizes where he needs help and can build his activities based on this analysis.
Communication and networks
Student identifies the communication needs related to each stakeholder.
Idea development
Student tests and develops the idea further based on the customer feedback.
Student analyses and describes the business model of the idea
Team work
Student participates in the group discussions actively and helps other students with their challenges.
Assessment criteria - grade 5
Self-leadership
Student creates a realistic and personal entrepreneur development plan and starts to implement it.
Communication and networks
Student prepares communication plan to support the implementation of the business idea and justifies the need for those.
Idea development
Student creates, describes and justifies the business idea as feasible business case, pitch and justify it to the other students.
Team work
Student participates to the group discussion in Impressive way and contributes to the other students and share new ideas to the other students’ work.