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T-Shirt Project Teaches Customer Discovery to Future Entrepreneurs

Many entrepreneurship professors want to provide students with applied learning experiences. Yet, implementing an applied project in a large, introductory entrepreneurship course can be a challenge. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Design Thinking Makes Great Ideas Viable

Entrepreneurs often start their business with a "good" idea they have that has not been properly vetted by potential customers. As a result, entrepreneurs often invest a great deal of time, effort, Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Brian Janz

Business Exercise Starts with $5 in Seed Money

Effectual reasoning, a form of expert entrepreneurial decision making, provides a series of decision making strategies for individuals in low-power situations. In these situations, individuals must Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Brent Goldfarb , David Kirsch and Dave Kressler

Team-Pitch-Quiz Learning Engages Students and Builds Understanding

Many of us remember that one infamous professor back in college whose boring lectures -- even on subjects that should have been interesting -- put everyone to sleep. The traditional old-fashioned Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Lars Oddsson

Confidentiality Agreements Promote Candor in Family Business Classes

For students from family businesses to fully benefit from participating in a family business class, it is essential that they open up and share their experiences, both good and bad. The more the Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Devina Raithatha

The McDonaldization of Everything: Teaching Weber to Undergraduates

Max Weber argued that the process of rationalization transformed social life forever. By loosening the hold of tradition, rationalization led to new practices that were chosen due to their Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Howard E. Aldrich and Stephen Lippmann

Why Do Startups Succeed or Fail: Teams, Ideas or Execution?

Startups succeed or fail for a variety of reasons: no market need, not the right team, timing, running out of cash, premature scaling and more. It is important for students to understand this so that Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Chuck Sacco

'Becoming da Vinci' Exercise Ignites the Inventor Spirit

Students often have a hard time understanding the difference between an invention and an innovation and, likewise, the difference between incremental and disruptive innovation. I developed this Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Kathleen Allen

'Tommie Tank' Helps Students Learn to Finance Ventures

Two-and-a-half years ago, we set out to design our entrepreneurial finance course at the University of St. Thomas around an experiential project. Our idea was straightforward: we wanted students to Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Jay Ebben

Classroom Exercise: Creating a Venture in 10 Days

The Innovation Project exercise enables students (within 10 days) to experience every step of the venture creation process (searching, screening, planning, financing, setup, startup, ongoing Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ron Mitchell