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SKILLS LEARNED
SKILLS LEARNED
Building Relationships and Networks
Resiliency
Financial Literacy
Marketing and Management
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Innovation, Creativity, and Opportunity Recognition
Communication and Presentation Skills
Teamwork
Emotional and Social Intelligence
Why this course is important to you?
Why this course is important to you?
This course will provide you with frameworks to understand how to AND think like an entrepreneur and business person. It will serve you not only if you want to start a business, but in college, at work, volunteering, and just about any pursuit.
Course Description
Course Description
This link takes you to the course outline of record (COR) for this course. The course outline of record is the foundational document that defines, standardizes, and communicates the essential elements of a course for students, faculty, administrators, and external partners such as UC and CSU.
From the Catalog:
From the Catalog:
This course on the Entrepreneurial Mindset engages and inspires students with the determination and perseverance to succeed in business. The course encompasses success concepts in the context of entrepreneurship, and provides for experiential learning beyond the classroom, building relationships and networks that will contribute to opportunities and realization of business and personal goals.
Why this course is important to you?
Why this course is important to you?
This course will provide you with frameworks to understand how to AND think like an entrepreneur. It will serve you not only if you want to start a business, but in college, at work, volunteering, and just about any pursuit.
Books
Books
TEXTBOOK (All Free to Dual Enrollment Students)
Entrepreneurship. (2024). Joshua Gans, Erin Scott, Scott Stern | W. W. Norton & Company. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324072188
Openstax College. Published 2020. Entrepreneurship. Last Update Sept. 2024
Senior Contributing Authors: Michael Laverty, Chris Littel
https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship
OpenStax College. (2022) Introduction to Business. OpenStax.
Senior Contributing Authors: Lawrence J. Gitman, Carl McDaniel, et. al.
https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-business
Optional with direct links from Canvas: Value Creation - The Personal MBA. Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC. personalmba.com. https://personalmba.com/value-creation/
PERIODICALS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
PERIODICALS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
● IMPORTANT: Use your College of San Mateo e-mail address. Sign up for the Wall Street Journal. Use this link for a free subscription. Type "College of San Mateo."
● Register for a Harvard Business Review Account. Subscribe to the Free Newsletter called Management Tip of the Day.
● Register to the Financial Times. Note that regardless of your school, you will have to say that you go to Aragon High School. You will have to use your smuhsd.org email address.
Follow this (Link to the Financial Times Professional Edition
● Optional: I have sprinkled various reprints of Harvard Business School (HBS) and Harvard Business Review (HBR) cases and material. For example, "A Note on Marketing" can be found in the Marketing chapter.
Movies and documentaries
Movies and documentaries
● Les Miserables
● The Devil Wears Prada
● The Founder. Ray Kroc's Story.
● Moneyball. Brad Pitt. Columbia Pictures. 2011
● Amazon Empire. PBS. Frontline. 2020.
● The Pursuit of Happyness
● The Wolf of Wallstreet
● Joy
Technical requirements
Technical requirements
Fairly recent Mac, PC, or Chrome Book with a current operating system.
A system that can execute Zoom meetings and simple spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets).
Current browser (Chrome or Safari are preferable)
Stable internet connection
Recommend that you get a Perplexity account.
Computer Readiness
Computer Readiness
This is a list of basic computer system requirements to use Canvas. It is always recommended to use the most up-to-date versions and better connections. Canvas will still run with the minimum specifications, but you may experience slower loading times.
Because it's built using web standards, Canvas runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, or any other device with a modern web browser. Chrome or Firefox are recommended, but not Internet Explorer.
The Computer Readiness Test will test your current browser for plugins and versions to help you navigate general websites. You may want to update your browser.
Canvas also has mobile apps!
Canvas also has mobile apps!
To access this course and others as a student, download the Canvas App for iOS or Android. Your students can also download this app to access their Canvas courses on their mobile devices.
You can also download the Canvas Teacher app for free on your iOS or Android device(s) to access your sandbox and other courses as a Teacher. This app allows you to grade student work and communicate with students on the go. Visit the Canvas Teach App Release Notes for information about using the Canvas app.
Recommended Free Software
Recommended Free Software
Student Canvas App: available on the App Store or Google Play. Type “San Mateo Community College District” when you search for your institution.
Adobe Reader: Some of the documents in this course will be available to you in PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader software on your computer, you can download it by going to Adobe Reader.
Pronto: for informal communication, consider downloading the mobile app.
Perplexity. https://www.perplexity.ai/
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