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Business Enterprise - Startups
Social Sciences Program
Budapest, Hungary
Dates: 8/28/22 - 12/18/22
Business Enterprise - Startups
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Corvinus University of Budapest
Location: , Hungary
Primary Subject Area: Business
Instruction in: English
Course Code: BUS 401
Transcript Source: Partner Institution
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
DESCRIPTION
The course gives a practice oriented, case-based introduction to the conditions as well as the means of venture creation and operation of startups. Students will learn how to avoid mistakes and pitfalls as well as how to take advantage of the largest benefit of a small and agile organization: the gift of flexibility, autonomous decision making and bias for action.
The main goal of the course is to develop students? ability to discover, select, process, interpret and use the necessary data to take decisions in an uncertain world and, then, to exploit market opportunities. The class is designed to provide students with the tools, methods and approaches - all through practical cases - which startups need to master in order to start and manage a successful new business venture.
By the end of the course students will be able to identify opportunities, conduct customer development, develop business models and value proposition and test their hypothesis in a matter of hours/days. As a part of the class students are required to form teams and come up with ideas for their startup
Corvinus University of Budapest awards credits based on the ECTS system (2 ECTS credits equals 1 U.S. credit therefore, 6 ECTS credits is equivalent to 3 U.S. credits). At Corvinus University of Budapest, all classes meet for a minimum of 180 minutes per week. Contact hours are calculated through a combination of lecture hours and outside activities which can include (workshops, seminars, fieldwork activities, guest lectures, and independent work) therefore, contact hours may vary on syllabi
The main goal of the course is to develop students? ability to discover, select, process, interpret and use the necessary data to take decisions in an uncertain world and, then, to exploit market opportunities. The class is designed to provide students with the tools, methods and approaches - all through practical cases - which startups need to master in order to start and manage a successful new business venture.
By the end of the course students will be able to identify opportunities, conduct customer development, develop business models and value proposition and test their hypothesis in a matter of hours/days. As a part of the class students are required to form teams and come up with ideas for their startup
Corvinus University of Budapest awards credits based on the ECTS system (2 ECTS credits equals 1 U.S. credit therefore, 6 ECTS credits is equivalent to 3 U.S. credits). At Corvinus University of Budapest, all classes meet for a minimum of 180 minutes per week. Contact hours are calculated through a combination of lecture hours and outside activities which can include (workshops, seminars, fieldwork activities, guest lectures, and independent work) therefore, contact hours may vary on syllabi