Fall 2026

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Introduction to entrepreneurship covering founding teams, customer/market discovery, and starting and growing a business.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Stefan Koehler4.0/5Dan OlszewskiJinting Zhou +1 more

Summary

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Students report significant busy work and reliance on group projects, with one reviewer noting the course uses many different online platforms and lacks clear directions.

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Prerequisites

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Professors

Fall 2026

Stefan Koehler

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Raw average: 4.33/5 from 21 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: 4.4/5 raw quality · 2.3/5 difficulty · 16 reviews

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Stefan Koehler is praised as an enthusiastic and helpful lecturer who inspires students with his entrepreneurial experience. Reviewers highlight his passion and the engaging nature of his classes. Students find the group work crucial and the grading generally easy.

Some reviewers criticize Koehler for being unorganized and using too many online platforms, which makes keeping up with assignments difficult. One student described the class as average and noted that the topic may not appeal to everyone.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2015: 3.69 GPA, 84.7% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Spring 2016: 3.60 GPA, 82.7% A/AB (n=104 letter grades); Spring 2017: 3.76 GPA, 96.7% A/AB (n=121 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Daniel Olszewski: Daniel Olszewski is described as nice, knowledgeable, and passionate, with engaging lectures. However, students note that exams include questions from random online videos, and the T-shirt project is a central component of the course.

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

Fall 2026

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Online (some classroom)205 / 2072
LEC 002Online (some classroom)132 / 2100
LEC 003Online (some classroom)36 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Reviewers describe Stefan Koehler as an inspiring and enthusiastic lecturer who makes the class fun and influential for students interested in entrepreneurship.

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

Students report significant busy work and reliance on group projects, with one reviewer noting the course uses many different online platforms and lacks clear directions.

While some find the course easy and enjoyable, others criticize the organization and emphasize that success depends heavily on finding a reliable group.

Topics

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

Skills

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

Grades

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Fall 2026 · Projected

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

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.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.08 GPA average error.

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Where this course fits relative to

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1283 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
MHR 322 · Fall 2026

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Recorded 2026-09-07
Raw records
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-09-07

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Model outputs & technical records
nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
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Model & dataset provenance
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