TOPICS IN OPERATION RESEARCH

By taking this course, students will gain the tools and knowledge to develop a comprehensive new venture that is scalable, repeatable and capital efficient. The course will help students formulate new business ideas through a process of ideation and testing.  Students will test the viability of their ideas in the marketplace and will think through the key areas of new venture.  The first part of the course will help students brainstorm about new ideas and test the basic viability of those ideas through of process of design and real world tests.  After an idea is developed students will work towards finding a scalable, repeatable business model.  We will cover customer discovery, market sizing, pricing, competition, distribution, funding, developing a minimal viable product and many other facets of creating a new venture.  The course will end with students having developed a company blueprint and final investor pitch.  Course requirements include imagination, flexibility, courage, getting out of the building, and passion.