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Courses in Entrepreneurship

The entrepreneurship program prepares students for the challenges of today’s fast-paced and uncertain economic environment where competition is based on opportunity recognition, innovation, speed to market and drive. Entrepreneurship courses are available to all NKU students.

ENTP 201: Entrepreneurial Mindset

The entrepreneurial mindset can be utilized to develop self-efficacy, leadership, resourcefulness, creativity and comfort with ambiguity. Students will study, apply and absorb an entrepreneurial mindset as an approach to viewing the world, recognizing problems and developing real-world creative solutions. Students will also develop an appreciation for failure as learning experiences.

ENTP 202: Opportunity Recognition

Students will explore ways to shape and evaluate opportunities by understanding key industry, market, and competitive factors. Students will learn how to determine if an idea is a viable opportunity for value creation, how to apply critical thinking skills, and how best to seize the opportunities they have identified.

ENTP 290: Idea Validation

Students will work in teams to learn how to turn a great idea into a great company. They will develop a company and evaluate their idea by testing it with potential customers. Using the customer and market feedback gathered, they will use agile development to rapidly iterate their product.

ENTP 375: Entrepreneurial Skills & Marketing

A strategic marketing process approach will be illustrated including marketing plans, the innovation process, and implementation of product, price, place and promotion goals. Topics will also include how to get business assistance, business locations, licenses and permits, registering your business, determining legal structure, and managing innovation.

ENTP 376: New Venture Financing

Many new ventures and innovation fail due to inadequate funding. Major sources of funding for new ventures are reviewed and evaluated in this course, including: venture capital, informal investors, banks, investment banks, suppliers, buyers and the government. Some of the topics for this course include valuation, “guerilla financing,” joint ventures, strategic alliances, private placements, IPOs and management buyouts.

ENTP 485: Entrepreneurship Capstone

Advanced, intensive experience designed to complete a student’s undergraduate study of entrepreneurship. Seminar that enables students to interact with experienced entrepreneurs. Students are expected to include a substantial educational component that builds on knowledge and expertise from an accumulation of previous entrepreneurship courses.

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