This studio-based course helps students develop their ability to imagine, recognize, inspire, and improve startup ideas.

In each class, students learn a different approach to product ideation or product critique, then practice that approach, working in many different teams, and often with the advice of visiting entrepreneurs, VCs, domain experts, and other practitioners. Students invent and explore thousands of startup ideas, and help each other evaluate and improve those ideas.

The objectives of the course are:

• To help students develop the ability to imagine and recognize startup ideas
• To teach students how to critique and improve ideas
• To broaden students’ awareness of startup opportunities
• To give students experience collaborating with many of their peers
• To encourage students to pursue ambitious startup opportunities
• To help students choose co-founders and a startup idea for Startup Studio

Instructors:

• Greg Pass (section 1)
• Rei Inamoto (section 2)

Schedule:

• Class 1 (Sep 7): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 2 (Sep 21): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 3 (Oct 5): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 4 (Oct 19): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 5 (Nov 2): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 6 (Nov 9): syllabus | slides | homework
• Class 7 (Nov 30): syllabus | slides | homework

The two sections meet at:

• 3:10p–4:25p (Greg's section)
• 4:35p–5:50p (Rei's section)

Course wiki:

• Syllabus
• Slides
• Homework
• Grading
• Policies (attendance, etc.)
• Glossary of Unicornucopia #tags
• Questions to help use #tags