Consistent with Marquette’s mission of concern for the whole person, the course seeks to help each student begin to create a venture that enables a fulfilling life. Students individually craft business models for new ventures (for-profit or non-for-profit) that meet underserved needs. Students also learn to communicate their venture concepts to potential resources providers.

Students learn both personal finance for founders and entrepreneurial finance for their startups and for growing businesses. Students will develop their own financial statements, including sources and uses of funds statements, and learn funding topics that include positive cash flow, profitability, breakeven, bootstrapping, crowdfunding, banking relationships, various debt financing sources, and various equity financing sources such as angel investors and venture capital.

S/U grade assessment.

S/U grade assessment. Not available to students enrolled in the College of Business Administration.

Focus on starting and developing a new business. Topics include evaluating opportunities and testing the feasibility of creative ideas, selecting and dealing with partners; alternative methods of financing, developing the initial competitive strategy, structuring and managing the business through the early survival months, and sources of outside help. Students prepare a business plan that can be used to launch a new initiative.

Students conduct a consulting project for an urban entrepreneur and provide its findings and recommendations, orally and in writing, to the client and community. Students apply sustainable business steps and their areas of expertise as they develop skills in project management, advising, coaching, mentoring, consulting, primary research, and client relationship communication.

Focuses on the identification of entrepreneurial challenges in the context of great social challenges - environmental sustainability in a global context. Develops insight into opportunities for simultaneous economic and environmental sustainability (i.e. entrepreneurial sustainability) in the context of daunting global challenges, with particular reference to other countries. The challenges are not only those of the other country context itself, but also those that arise for ventures that cross national borders and provide environmental solutions. As a rule the other country covered is the People’s Republic of China.

Topics may vary. Specific topics are designated in the Schedule of Classes.

S/U grade assessment.

S/U grade assessment.

S/U grade assessment. Not available to students enrolled in the College of Business Administration

S/U grade assessment. Not available to students enrolled in the College of Business Administration.

Faculty-supervised, independent study/research of a specific area or topic in Entrepreneurship.

Topics may vary. Specific topics are designated in the Schedule of Classes.

Topics vary.

Faculty-supervised, independent study/research of a specific area or topic in Entrepreneurship.