Entrepreneurship

This course is an entrepreneurship education program developed by the University of Iowa. This class will teach students about entrepreneurship by exploring strategies used in the early stages of business development. This class takes a hands-on approach to solving problems and encourages students to be innovative, test assumptions, and develop a (business) startup. Students will use tools & strategies like the Lean Startup Methodology, Design Thinking, and the Business Model Canvas to validate their ideas.  Students engage critical thinking skills as they iterate business models to launch a one-day pop-up business and explore how freedom, individual responsibility, property rights, entrepreneurial thinking, and free markets contribute to moral, intellectual, and economic development. Entrepreneurship transforms mindsets, empowering students to chase the opportunities that surround them.