Entrepreneurship
No experience or prerequisite coursework required -
Designed for all students with any major!
ETSU’s minor in Entrepreneurship brings a practitioner focus to entrepreneurial opportunities and activities. This new program includes real-world coursework in design thinking and startup operations. The program also focuses on emerging business models, financing and funding and rapid prototyping of ideas.
This program empowers students with a passion for startups, by allowing them to develop and incubate their own idea from concept to pitch deck. The Entrepreneurship program offers a full startup incubation course that teaches students the process of turning a concept into a presentation ready pitch deck. Along with coursework, students can also work on projects alongside community innovators - across both for-profit and non-profit enterprises.
Why ETSU
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Real-World Experience
The Entrepreneurship Minor is designed to help students not only incubate their ideas in preparation for customer engagement and venture funding but also to develop an entrepreneurial mindset, critical for employment in fast-growing companies and industries.
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iBUCS Student Venture Competition
iBUCS, a “Shark Tank” style student venture competition, is hosted each year by the College of Business and Technology. Students participating in this competition have the opportunity to win seed money for their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. The competition is open to students across the university encouraging a cross-disciplinary learning approach.
Click here to learn more about the iBUCS Student Venture Competition.
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Cutting Edge Curriculum
The program offers cutting-edge, relevant, and practical core entrepreneurship classes which are available both online and face-to-face. The minor requires each student to take three foundation courses and four electives. Students can choose from a number of elective courses to create an individualized program tailored to their specific interests, startup ideas, and goals.
To view the catalog for the program, click here.
Arshene Baigvand- iBUCS Winner and Creator of Pick Up & Play
View the Entrepreneurship brochure
Program Requirements
The Entrepreneurship minor requires each student to take three foundation courses
and four electives. Courses offerings include:
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Foundation Courses:
- ENTP 1955: Entrepreneurship/Innovation Mindset
- MGMT 4617: Small Business Management/Strategy
- ENTP 3005: Entrepreneurship Experiential Lab -
Elective Courses:
- ENTP 3000: Entrepreneurship Finance and Funding
- ENTP 3009: CRM Business Solutions for Start-ups
- ENTP 3012: Social Enterprise and Sustainability Entrepreneurship
- ENTP 3010: Business Models for Startup Innovation
- ENTP 3016: Product Concept Development and Presentation
- ENTP 3020: Protecting Intellectual Property
- ENTP 4550: Special Topics in Innovation/Entrepreneurship
- MKTG 4617: Marketing Analytics/Research