Program Overview

The Weatherhead School of Management offers a minor in entrepreneurship that will teach students "how" to be an entrepreneur through the process of ideation and creation. The minor is available to all undergraduate students at CWRU.

For more information, contact the Entrepreneurship Academic Representative.

Learning Outcomes

• Examine a particular area of entrepreneurship and the problems that exist in that area.
• Examine and practice demand-side analysis for a product.
• Learn how to create a product.
• Explore the financing and financial management of entrepreneurial new ventures.
• Evaluate opportunities, develop strategies, create a pitch deck, and learn how to acquire financing for a new venture.

Undergraduate Policies

For undergraduate policies and procedures, please review the Undergraduate Academics section of the General Bulletin.

Program Requirements

Courses can be taken in any order or concurrently, except the Business Model Canvas course must be taken after the Customer Discovery course and the Product Building course. It is suggested that students take a Domain course first, but this is not required.

a

The Domain course provides the background to the entrepreneurship area for which the product exists. Substitutions allowed with approval by the Program Director.

b

In the Customer Discovery course students learn about demand-side analysis for their product.

c

In the Product Building course students learn how to create the product, choosing a course based on the technical space. Substitutions allowed with approval by the Program Director.

d

In the Entrepreneurial Finance course students explore the financing and financial management of entrepreneurial new ventures.

e

In the Business Model Canvas course students learn how to evaluate opportunities, develop strategies, create a pitch deck, and acquire financing for a new venture.  Students develop a pitch deck for a lean startup.