HENT-306: Entrepreneur Stu: Jump-Start

Entrepreneur Studio: Jump-Start Your Business Are you an entrepreneur? Would you like to start your own business when you graduate? This advanced seminar style course prepares students to launch a business, project, consulting firm, or product. Students will gain the business know-how and skills to present to an incubator, prepare for a crowd funding campaign, apply for loans, or pitch to angel investors, licensees or partners. Using the lean start-up method taught in the class students can further develop a project started in another class or create a new project from scratch. Students will be taught to create a business model, a rollout strategy, and cash flow analysis to develop a plan to scale a business or project over time. If appropriate to the project intellectual property applications will be developed. Individual and team projects are both encouraged. The basics of entrepreneurship covered in Intro to entrepreneurship, Business of licensing- Start-up 101, or In the trenches is required as a prerequisite, or special permission from the professor through an application process. Professor Krystina Castella has helped many Art Center students, alumni and creative professionals establish their businesses across disciplines over her 25 years of teaching entrepreneurship. This course offers the opportunity to work with her on your own personalized action plan for your business. Application process for students without prerequisite: -1 page description of the project and what the student hopes to accomplish in the class. -Bio and resume. -Recommendation letter from faculty member