Course. Data Science and Technology Entrepreneurship
Chris Wiggins informed me of a course that may be of interest to some of you. See this page for updated information including the syllabus. A brief description is below.
Data Science And Technology Entrepreneurship
"Offered jointly between Columbia Business School and Computer Science Department"
This course will pair up MBA students from Columbia Business School with Master’s/PhD students from Computer Science department to form teams of two (or more) who will be guided through an entrepreneurial experience of building a technology startup. The course will be very hands on! The course will also have a team of 12 Industry Advisors/Mentors (CEOs, CTOs and VC Partners of various firms) who will engage with students to help them convert their idea into a sustainable technology business.
Data Science is an emerging interdisciplinary field across statistics, computer science and business. The course will not only focus on theoretical aspects of data sciences but also on applying them in building products and improving business processes. Student teams (composed of CS/Engineering and Business students) will use data driven methods to test feasibility of the idea/innovation, build the product, develop customers, study sales channels and try to raise capital during the span of 4 months. Industry mentors will critique the student teams and their ideas through various stages of the startup implementation addressing such questions related to feasibility, market attractiveness, customer acquisition, metrics, launch strategy and more. The students will be able to interact with CEOs for business mentorship, CTOs for technical mentorship and VC firm partners for advice on the capital raising process.
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