This course is a hands-on entrepreneurship and Innovation bootcamp designed for students who want to build, test, and pitch ideas in the real world.
Instead of focusing purely on theory, you will learn how to think and act like an entrepreneur - whether you aim to launch a startup or bring innovation into an existing organization. From day one, you’ll work on real problems, develop solution concepts, and turn them into tangible business opportunities.
By the end of the course, you will have gone from identifying a relevant problem to building and pitching an investor-ready startup concept. Along the way, you’ll gain practical experience with modern tools, frameworks, and methods used by founders today - supported by guest speakers, interactive sessions, and real-world challenges.
Content
- Opportunity discovery: identifying real-world problems worth solving
- Idea validation: testing assumptions and finding product-market fit
- Lean startup & rapid experimentation: build-measure-learn cycles
- Business model design: creating scalable and viable ventures
- Entrepreneurial mindset: effectuation, resilience, and decision-making under uncertainty
- Go-to-market strategies: reaching your first users and customers
- Storytelling & pitching: communicating ideas to investors and stakeholders
- Team dynamics & founder roles: building and working in high-performing teams
- Innovation in practice: applying agile and human-centered methods
- Industry perspectives: insights from founders, operators, and innovators
- Trainer/in: Cem Avsar
- Trainer/in: Olga Homakova
- Trainer/in: Nicole Lange
- Trainer/in: Daria Markova
- Trainer/in: Mario Steinbuch