2024-25 Spring - COMP5911 - Entrepreneurial Me

Course

Description

While entrepreneurship is a career choice, its mindset is for everyone. This is a course covering the mindset and elements of founding new and innovative business ventures in information technology sector. Topics include the entrepreneurial risk-taking value-creation mindset, market identification and go-to-market strategies, business models and development, business plan, fundraising and investment, role and protection of intellectual properties, technology-market gap and product-market fit, and growth and exit strategies. Case studies of successful and unsuccessful ventures will be discussed. In-class student participation and presentation are expected. Business and non-engineering students interested in starting IT-related companies are also welcome. Research postgraduate students are encouraged to develop proof-of-concept prototypes and business plans based on their research findings.
Course period1/02/2530/06/25
Course levelPG
Course formatLecture