Advanced Entrepreneurship
Advanced Entrepreneurship focuses on starting and growing new ventures using qualitative and quantitative skills, covering startup valuation, management, and cross-functional concepts in finance, law, marketing, and strategy.
Summary
Past student reviews · Martin Ganco
The class featured quizzes before every lecture covering textbook material, two exams, and a group project requiring a 30-page business plan for a start-up.
What you’ll be able to do
Evaluate whether an idea is an entrepreneurial opportunity using both quantitative and qualitative tools.
Explain the process of building and growing a startup and the challenges associated with each phase of that process for both high-growth and traditional startups.
Apply select quantitative and qualitative skills and resources required for successfully managing and growing a startup.
Explain how to start and finance a new business venture.
Create and present a report analyzing commercial potential of an entrepreneurial opportunity including evaluating potential for sustained growth.
Source: UW Guide
Grade history
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Prerequisites
Course mapM H R 322 and (ACCT I S 100 or GEN BUS 310) or declared in the Business Exchange program
“Used by” includes alternatives; linked courses may have other requirements. This is a best-effort interpretation; check the catalog requirements above.
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- declared in the Business Exchange program
Professors
Spring 2027No instructors recorded for this selection.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
ADAM BOCK is recorded teaching in Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
CHAD NAVIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
JOHN SURDYK is recorded teaching in Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
MARTIN GANCO is recorded teaching in Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2023. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
PHILIP GREENWOOD is recorded teaching in Spring 2009, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
PHILLIP KIM is recorded teaching in Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Fall 2009. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
STEFAN KOEHLER is recorded teaching in Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2025. 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
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Student experience
the class
Past student reviews · Chad Navis
Students described this entrepreneurship course as engaging and useful for those interested in starting a business, noting that it introduces interesting cases to evaluate.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=51 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.34 GPA, 65.5% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Martin Ganco
The class featured quizzes before every lecture covering textbook material, two exams, and a group project requiring a 30-page business plan for a start-up.
Past student reviews · Adam Bock
Adam Bock's expectation for strong data and evidence in papers made writing assignments challenging, though students found this approach helped them learn to back up claims effectively.
Topics
- Starting and growing new ventures
- Assessing and quantifying entrepreneurial opportunity growth potential
- Investor valuation of startups
- Cross-functional concepts: finance, law, marketing, strategy
Skills
- Assessing and quantifying growth potential of entrepreneurial opportunities
- Understanding how investors value startups
- Effective management of startups
- Cross-functional concepts in finance, law, marketing, and strategy
Grades
Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.
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Explore recorded gradesRecorded 2026-10-14
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Model & dataset provenance
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