Business Courses

Business Courses

Business Concentration
- Creating a Business in Speech and Language Technology
  Planning and launching a start-up business in speech and language technology. Finding a great idea. Communicating the idea to others. Developing a business plan. Managing a start-up business. Student teams will work for a start-up business or launch their own.
- Extreme Bootstrapping
  Starting a business with no capital. Being profitable by default. Student team will work for an established business in bootstrap or create their own real or simulated business.
- Extreme Entrepreneurship -- Beyond Venture Capital
  Take a business from start-up to IPO with venture capital or utilizing new style Extreme Venture Capital. Student teams will work for an Extreme Enterprise company or plan their own.
- Bootstrap Capital or Extreme Venture Capital
  Work for a real or simulated venture capital fund that practices Bootstrap Capital. For example, maximize return on investment by minimizing the investment. Increase the return on investment by extending the time frame of compound growth and reducing the infant mortality.
- Extreme IPO
  Work with an investment bank or a company doing an Extreme IPO, that is, an IPO that is optimized for the long term growth in value of the stock, not the short-term effects of the IPO as a one-time event.
- Managing Growth and Profitability
  Work with a real or simulated company managing for a sustained high growth rate and profitability. Learn techniques for both large and small companies.
- Simulated Business World
  Work with and help develop a role playing game that creates a simulated business world.

Business Areas

In most of these courses, you will design a new business, create one of your own, or do projects for a start-up company that follows these principles. A mentor can help you learn the lessons of entrepreneurship, but the best school is the school of hard knocks.

Most of these strategies for succeeding in business can be derived from the core beliefs and principles. These principles can be used to double the probability of success and double the average return on investment.