TE 441

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Engineering City Scholars: New Venture Creation

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Credit: 2 hours.

Provides an in-depth exploration and application of the new venture creation process. Students will participate in the preliminary round of the UIUC/UC College New Venture Challenge and develop their own original business ideas. Student teams will present to a council of outside investors and entrepreneurs, obtain feedback on the viability of their venture ideas, and investigate the process of fundraising from both traditional and non-traditional sources of capital.

2 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 4 undergraduate hours. TE 441 begins earlier than the typical spring semester and lasts for 11 weeks. Refunds and deadlines may not follow the typical spring term dates. Please refer to the refund schedule for nonstandard courses on the Office of the Registrar's website. Class meets face-to-face at the Polsky Exchange North at 1452 E 53rd St. in Chicago, Illinois. Prerequisite: Restricted to Startup City Scholars students. Junior or senior standing required.

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TE 441 class schedule data for spring 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	75887	Lecture-Discussion	CNV	5:00PM -8:00PM	R	Location Pending	Thode, J	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/16/24-03/08/24 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Info: This section is for students in the Startup City Scholars Program and meets at the Polsky Center in Chicago, IL: Polsky Exchange North at 1452 E 53rd St. The purpose of this course is to guide groups of students through the new venture creation process. Students in this course will have passed through the preliminary round of the UIUC/UC College New Venture Challenge and will be developing their own original new business ideas. Students may enter the course with ideas that are traditionally for-profit in nature or more socially oriented (either for- or not-for-profit ventures). The course will take the approach of teaching critical research and evaluation skills that will be uniform between these types of ventures and will address particular points of divergence around the fundraising process. In particular, the course will evaluate the differences in raising capital from VC investors, impact investors, crowdsourcing platforms, etc. This course is restricted to Startup City Scholars Students.