ENTREPRENEURSHIP

When you choose the Management Concentration it will prepare you to act in managerial or leadership roles in a wide variety of situations. However, it is a very general Business degree. You may want to consider using your three Management Electives to give yourself an area of management emphasis, which may be useful when you interview for jobs after graduation.

Since San Jose State University is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, famous for its many new ventures and entrepreneurial companies, many students choose studies in entrepreneurship. There are a number of possible combinations of elective courses which could help you get a job in an entrepreneurial company or perhaps even put you on the track for starting your own company.

Bus 181 Introduction to Entrepreneurship offers an insight into the characteristics of entrepreneurs, the approaches they use to create, identify and evaluate opportunities for new ventures and the skills that are needed to start and manage new ventures and develop a preliminary business plan.

Bus 182 Business Plans for New Ventures is an integrative course involving teamwork to prepare complete plans for starting a new business. This requires analyzing the industry and potential market, the competitive advantage of the business proposition, human and financial resource requirements, and the founders’ skills.

Bus 196N (to become Bus 183) International Entrepreneurship explores the opportunities and challenges that entrepreneurs create, encounter and manage in the international and cross-cultural arena. It will examine how entrepreneurs adapt to and succeed in a global economy and how institutional networks facilitate global and immigrant entrepreneurship.

Bus 173C, Small Business Finance Basic principles of finance applied to actual small businesses, including incorporation, profit planning, cash flow analysis, capital budgeting, cash and receivables management, debt versus equity and valuation principles.

Other Recommended Courses – 163, Management Issues in High Technology Companies and

164, Strategies in High Technology Companies