Spring 2027

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introductory course covering foundations of entrepreneurship, including founding teams, customer/market discovery, and starting and growing a business.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Adam Bock3.2/5

Summary

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Past student reviews · Adam Bock

The course involved short weekly readings, videos, and easy quizzes, with exams described as fair and often reusing previous questions. A t-shirt project was a key component.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply basic market discovery techniques.

  • Define the basic steps taken to start a new venture.

  • Identify career paths in entrepreneurship.

  • Exercise appropriate leadership, value diverse perspectives, and work collaboratively to accomplish organizational objectives in an entrepreneurial context.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Professors

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Raw average: 2.60/5 from 15 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

For this course: 2.4/5 raw quality · 3.0/5 difficulty · 14 reviews

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Past student reviews · Adam Bock

Adam Bock teaches with a mix of weekly quizzes, online exams, and a t-shirt project. Students described the exams as fair and reused, but opinions sharply divided on his approach; some found him knowledgeable and approachable, while others felt he was uninterested in student success and treated the class as a side gig.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.62 GPA, 75.2% A/AB (n=218 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 72.8% A/AB (n=364 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.38 GPA, 65.8% A/AB (n=278 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Past student reviews · Stefan Koehler, Daniel Olszewski

Students worked on a T-Shirt project, which one student described as a blast, while another noted they got to sell t-shirts and profit from them. Assessment involved exams and quizzes; one student reported that exams required memorizing names from videos, and another stated that only about 40% of the grade was based on exams. The class also included watching online lectures from the YC combinator series, with one student finding the course topic uninteresting and difficult to get into.

ADAM BOCK is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

BEKHZOD KHOSHIMOV is recorded teaching in Spring 2022. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

DANIEL OLSZEWSKI is recorded teaching in Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

STEFAN KOEHLER is recorded teaching in Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online (some classroom)0 / 1000
LEC 002Online (some classroom)0 / 1000
LEC 100Online Only0 / 500

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Adam Bock

Students found the entrepreneurial content interesting and useful for developing a business mindset, though opinions on Adam Bock's teaching style were sharply divided.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.52 GPA, 72.8% A/AB (n=364 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.28 GPA, 52.0% A/AB (n=402 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.38 GPA, 65.8% A/AB (n=278 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Adam Bock

The course involved short weekly readings, videos, and easy quizzes, with exams described as fair and often reusing previous questions. A t-shirt project was a key component.

Past student reviews · Adam Bock

Some students felt Bock was unapproachable for help and treated the class as a side gig, while others found him knowledgeable but critical of those who didn't prepare.

Topics

  • Foundations of entrepreneurship
  • Founding teams
  • Customer and market discovery
  • Starting and growing a business

Skills

  • Foundational knowledge of entrepreneurship
  • Understanding founding teams, customer/market discovery, and business growth
  • Applying basic market discovery techniques
  • Defining steps to start a new venture
  • Identifying career paths in entrepreneurship
  • Exercising leadership and collaboration in entrepreneurial contexts

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The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

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Sources & history

UW–Madison

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Selected offering source records
MHR 322 · Spring 2027

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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