Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Courses

Please visit Carnegie Mellon's Enrollment Services site to register for undergraduate entrepreneurship courses at Carnegie Mellon University.

Please visit Tepper's undergraduate business department for more information about our undergraduate business programs.


70-415 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Instructors –Bob Culbertson
This course is designed primarily to provide an overview of entrepreneurship, develop an entrepreneurial frame of mind and learn the rudiments of how to differentiate an idea from an opportunity. Students come up with a business idea and explore its potential for becoming a viable business. They do market research and experience the rewards and difficulties in dealing with people in the real world. They will meet entrepreneurs and business professionals as part of the course and learn how to make effective presentations — both written and oral. Other important aspects of the course include self-assessment to determine one’s strengths and weaknesses, understanding the "magic" of leadership and gaining an entrepreneurial perspective on life.
 

70-414 Technology-Based Entrepreneurship for CIT (Babs Carryer) 
70-420 Entrepreneurship for Scientists (Tom Emerson) 
15-390 Entrepreneurship for Computer Science (Arthur Boni and William Courtright) 
These entrepreneurship courses are primarily for non-business school students. They include most of 70-415 and assume no background courses in business. Therefore they involve additional sessions for core business concepts. Students with majors in science, technology, engineering, the humanities or the arts are exposed to fundamental concepts and issues in business and gain a basic understanding of functional areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, sales and organizational behavior.
 

70-416 New Venture Creation
Instructors – Arthur Boni
This course exposes students to the nuances of financing new ventures, getting legal issues handled and marketing the products or services. Students pull together all the ideas and information from different functional aspects of their projects into coherent and persuasive mini-business plans that serve as road maps for building their businesses. These plans are useful and necessary instruments for securing sufficient financing for the new ventures. Prerequisite: 70-414, 420, 421 or 70-415.


70-418 Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
Instructor – Babs Carryer
This course addresses the financial issues facing entrepreneurs. Various sources of financing are covered, such as bootstrapping, angels, and venture capitalists. Guest entrepreneurs are invited to class to discuss how they got sufficient funding at the various stages of building their companies. In addition, the venture capital industry is reviewed and issues involved in arriving at company valuations are discussed. Prerequisite: 70-414, 415, 420 or 421.
 

70-509 Independent Study in Entrepreneurship (Arthur Boni)
70-417 Topics in Entrepreneurship (Bob Culbertson)
An independent study course in which students work on a one-on-one basis with the instructor to study particular entrepreneurial topics in which they are interested. Topics can include family business, social entrepreneurship or the development of their mini-business plan into a full-blown business plan. Prerequisite: 70-415 or 70-416.
 

Entrepreneurship II
Instructor – Babs Carryer or Bob Culbertson
This course is for students who want to turn their business ideas into an actual business plan. You will examine financing methods, specific marketing issues, legal considerations, putting together a management team and identifying milestones for implementation of the business plan.