FIT3134 · Entrepreneurship

Overview

Over the past few years, the world has seen disruptive ideas spearheaded by entrepreneurs and the startups that they lead. Often, these startups are backed by strong technological advancements that power rapid growth, giving birth to the term technopreneurship. This unit aims to empower you with the essential knowledge, skills, and tools to bring a technology idea to a venture-backable startup. This includes topics such as (1) team, (2) vision; (3) problem; (4) market; (5) solution; (6) business model; (7) go-to-market; (8) competitors; (9) traction/ metrics; and (10) investment ask.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Describe what startups are, using the concepts of innovation, entrepreneurship and technopreneurship.
2. Evaluate and differentiate between ideas, ideas that can be businesses and business ideas that can be startups.
3. Understand the roles and responsibilities of a startup founding team.
4. Demonstrate research process for market research, idea validation, value proposition and scale to large with appropriate metrics.
5. Actualize ideas to an industry-grade business pitch deck.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.