HADM 4180

Technology for Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This course provides an overview of how to identify, evaluate, and design technology to enhance service delivery in bootstrapped entrepreneurial ventures. The course prepares students who have entrepreneurial intentions in a bootstrapped venture, whether for-profit or non-profit, to view contemporary issues in service delivery through the prism of entrepreneurial theory and practice. The class starts out using BMFiddle as a tool to model a business idea in the cloud for collaborative feedback.  As the semester progresses, this model becomes the basis for the final project, the creation of a strategic technology plan that integrates many types of cloud-based technology vendors to maximize the execution and growth of a start-up entity.  This objective is achieved through attendance at lectures and hands-on labs utilizing a mix of instructional methods including cooperative learning activities, hospitality case studies, alumni interview case development, reflective logs, group and individual pitch assignments, and project-based written assignments.

When Offered Winter, spring.

Comments Elective. Co-meets with HADM 6180. Graduate students must enroll in HADM 6180 - Technology for Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship.

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