Venture Creation

MHR 734: Venture Creation teaches students to evaluate, formalize, and communicate new venture ideas while developing original product or service concepts.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Fall 2026 Martin Ganco3.7/5Zhiling Lin

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Historical reviews of Phillip Kim: Phillip Kim assigned excessive prep work and busy work with no educational value, which reviewers found absurd and disconnected from real-world application.

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Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

  • Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program
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  • Graduate/professional standing or declared in graduate Business Exchange program

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Raw average: 4.50/5 from 2 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.

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Historical instructors & teaching patterns

Historical reviews of Phillip Kim describe his teaching as overly academic with no real-world application. Reviewers criticize the excessive prep work and busy work as lacking educational value. The course was rated difficult with low quality.

PHILLIP KIM is recorded teaching in Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2014. 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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LEC 001Classroom Instruction23 / 400

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Student experience

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Historical reviews for Phillip Kim describe the course as overly theoretical with excessive busy work, though current instructors Martin Ganco and Zhiling Lin have no reviewed experiences to summarize.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=26 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=29 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Historical reviews of Phillip Kim: Phillip Kim assigned excessive prep work and busy work with no educational value, which reviewers found absurd and disconnected from real-world application.

Historical reviews of Phillip Kim: Reviewers found Phillip Kim's academic focus frustrating, citing concepts with no real-world application and wasted class time on theoretical material.

Topics

  • Transforming ideas into new ventures
  • Evaluation and formalization of venture ideas
  • Original product and service concept development

Skills

  • Evaluating, formalizing, and communicating new venture ideas
  • Developing original product, service, or venture concepts

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MHR 734 · Fall 2026

Venture Creation

Recorded 2026-09-07
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