ENTR 2P51
Entrepreneurship Basics
Tuesday 19:00 – 22:00 (online)
Instructor for the remainder of the course:
Dr. Dirk De Clercq, Professor of Management, Goodman School of Business
Email: [email protected]
Grading:
| Evaluation Component | Grade Weight | Due Date |
| Take home Mid Term Exam (Individual) | 40% | Past |
| Entrepreneur Biography (Individual) | 30% | Past |
| VC Feasibility Case: 3, 2 or 1 students per group; you choose | 30% | April 5by 10:00pm |
| Total | 100% |
Schedule:
| Mar 15 | Ch.13: Preparing for and Evaluating the Challenges of Growth (Slides are uploaded, no class preparation needed) |
| Mar 22 | Best Practices in the Venture Capital Industry (Slides are uploaded, no class preparation needed) |
| Mar 29 | Work on Venture Capital Assignment |
| April 5 | Work on Venture Capital Assignment EMAIL Venture Capital Assignment to [email protected] (one email per group) |
Detail about VC Feasibility Case (pasted from the original syllabus):
You will form a team of up to 3 students for this assignment. You will pick one of the three VC cases below:
- Pill Pack – Chapter 2
- Tyto Care – Chapter 3
- Ava – Chapter 6
- Kolibree – Chapter 12
- Double Robotics – Chapter 13
For this assignment, you will assess the following five issues:
(1)strength of the new venture team,
(2) strength of the opportunity,
(3) strength of the industry,
(4) strength of the business model
(5) whether (or not) you would fund this company, and why (not).
You are expected to integrate material from the entire course and also to consult the Internet to search for relevant information on the selected company.
The page limit for this assignment is three pages, single-spaced, maximum and using the format from class. Students will be graded on how well they integrate course content into the assignment. Students must highlight each concept they use in yellow. If a concept is not highlighted, then the Students accept the risk that such concept will not be included in their grade.
ASSIGNMENT CAVEAT: The short essay MUST be a product of the groups original work and effort and not previously or concurrently been written or presented as part of any other course taken at Brock or elsewhere. If it is not, then a grade of zero will be given (even retroactively) and it will be construed and recorded as academic misconduct in the student’s file.
NOTE: Students agree that by taking this course all assignments may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. If you object to uploading your assignments to Turnitin.com for any reason, please notify the instructor to discuss alternative submissions
Refer to the sample VC assignments on Sakai.