Learn what it means to think like an entrepreneur and grow high-potential ideas in today’s ever-changing business landscape. Resilience, resourcefulness, and creative problem solving are not only essential skills for future founders but also for those looking to create change and drive growth in startups and large companies. By understanding the basic principles of entrepreneurship, students can learn how to find innovative solutions, sell their ideas, and create growth in any organization.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Get to know the Lean Startup methodology, a research-driven process to develop new products and businesses with efficiency and minimized risk. This leading framework focuses on experimentation, customer feedback, and iterative design to increase a venture’s competitive advantage and chances of success. Course topics include the methodology’s history and benefits, as well as how to test hypotheses, collect data, create a minimal viable product, accelerate growth, pivot, and more.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course provides students with an overview of key leadership principles for creating strategy and managing teams in a startup environment. It introduces leadership concepts critical to gaining true organizational commitment and focuses on case studies relevant to common business issues. By exploring what entrepreneurial leaders do and how visionary leadership is required to grow a venture, students will learn how to execute these concepts through measurable goals.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Summer.

This course is an introduction to the financial life of an entrepreneur. Students will learn the basics of small business accounting and finance so that they can recognize the key financial challenges that come with owning a business; know the potential sources of capital for a small business; prepare basic financial statements; analyze a business’s liquidity, profitability, and capital structure; and understand a small business’s tax obligations. This course counts as a pre-req to ENTP 3299.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

This course is designed to prepare entrepreneurial-minded students to critically and objectively evaluate the feasibility of their ideas. Entrepreneurs are often fatally optimistic. Through projects and assignments, students will learn how to objectively test and validate the feasibility of an entrepreneurial idea through data-driven analytical and strategic planning. Additionally, this course will provide pragmatic applications of the course content by incorporating real-life case studies presented by practicing entrepreneurs as guest lecturers.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

Selling one’s own concept to prospective customers and investors is very different from selling products in a corporate environment. In this course, students will learn how to get their message heard, get their ideal clients to want to work with them, and use their authentic brand to sell their small-business concept successfully.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Ever think about starting a business or want to know how? Take this class to find out why writing a thorough business plan and pitch is essential to transforming your idea into a reality. Students will learn how to use AI tools to evaluate the feasibility of their ideas and create an effective business plan through the process of “plan, pivot, plan, repeat.” Students will then develop a winning pitch and get experience presenting and receiving feedback from experts along the way. This course runs concurrently with THE CLIMB, an annual pitch competition and event series, giving students the chance to compete outside of the classroom and win real cash prizes for their business. By the end of this course, students will have created their own business plan for a viable idea and will develop an entrepreneurial mindset to aid their future startup ventures and/or careers.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: ENTP 3230 with a grade of C or ACCT 2200 with a grade of C- or higher is required.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Aspiring entrepreneurs need inspiration, practice, networks, and guidance to be successful. This course will help you cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset, and will provide you with opportunities to apply that mindset to in-class simulations and real-world assignments. Learn from Denver’s leading founders as you hear their stories, visit their businesses, and engage in hands-on activities to gain powerful insights about the life of an entrepreneur. This course works differently than what you’re used to–you will be required to reflect deeply on your own experiences to derive your own learnings! Grades are based on engagement, curiosity, teamwork, and improvement. Typically offered: Fall.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Supervised experiences involving the application of concepts and skills in an employment situation. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Conversion

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Restriction: Restricted to undergraduate students

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.

This course is reserved for CU Denver faculty-led study abroad experiences. The course topic will vary based on the location and course content. Students register through the Office of Global Education. Students can register for ENTP 4028 twice as long as they are for two different trips (for example: Cuba and Barcelona). Cross-listed with ENTP 6028, INTB 4028, and INTB 6028. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Additional Information: Global Education Study Abroad.

Typically Offered: Spring, Summer.

This course is for anyone with aspirations to be a mission-driven entrepreneur, either within an existing organization or by starting their own. Learn about the evolving world of social entrepreneurship and how to create societal impact. By the end of this course, students will know how to advance an organization’s social mission and increase effectiveness, accountability, and efficiency through market-based techniques.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Spring.

This course focuses on the intersection of international business and entrepreneurship. Topics addressed include international entrepreneurship theory and practice (opportunity identification, processes and route to market). This course also highlights new topics in international entrepreneurship such as digital globalization and new technologies driving international entrepreneurship (blockchain and the global supply chain). Leading practitioners and entrepreneurs will be facilitating these modules. Cross-listed with ENTP 6826

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to undergraduate students

This course is intended for research or other unique circumstances.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

A variety of topics in entrepreneurship are offered. Consult the current "Schedule Planner" for semester offerings. Repeatable.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.