UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Class
If any of you are in the UC Berkeley area on Mondays from 5:00-6:30, I am teaching an entrepreneurship class in 3108 Etcheverry Hall. The class is an introduction to entrepreneurship where students create a business plan and are encouraged to start the businesses they conceptualize.
From our syllabus:
Course Description
The course is meant to help foster an interest in entrepreneurship. It will be interactive, taking students through the process of starting their own business. Every week different areas of starting a business will be covered and students will constantly be working on a course-long project starting their own business. Students will draft a business idea, conduct market research, take the first steps necessary to start their business, work to acquire financing, and more. While most projects will be “mock” it is our hope that this course-long project will help students find their entrepreneurial spirit and give students ideas of entrepreneurial endeavors they may be interested in pursuing. It is also our hope that any students with low-cost startups will actually begin working on them after this course.
Class Structure
Our course’s classes will be composed of lectures, group discussion, peer review of business projects, young entrepreneur case studies, reading material, and guest lecturers. As a result of the course students should gain an understanding of entrepreneurship and the vast possibilities that go along with it. Students will gain experience going through the start-up process allowing them to understand the processes involved with starting a business.
About the Facilitators
This course was started by two undergraduate entrepreneurs at UC Berkeley, Aditya Mahesh and Saleh Altayyar. Aditya Mahesh currently runs a public relations firm DoItRight PR and is working on a variety of web startups. Saleh Altyyar is the founder and CEO of Auto1Pay, a used car dealership and auto broker based out of Modesto, CA.
We are using four books in class:
The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
If you are an entreprneuer in the Bay Area and are interested in speaking to a group of 65-70 motivated students on business and entreprneuership, send me an e-mail at amahesh [at] berkeley.edu.
