BAEP 555 - Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipate and Avoid Startup Pitfalls

BRILLIANT. BEST CLASS AT MARSHALL. Speakers include lawyers, founders, consultants, etc. Cases are short/manageable and ALL very useful, opportunity to debate/negotiate and learn from your mistakes, self-assessment applicable during and post class, Professor is organized, passionate, and gives you feedback along the way. Homework is all manageable and useful.

PLEASE TAKE THIS!!! just check the professor's linkedin background... you will see why.. He used to teach in Harvard Business School for almost 20 years.. and the FD class is the most popular class in HBS..

This is one of the best classes and teachers at Marshall. Wasserman is very engaging and thoughtful about content delivery. Every class has been interesting and full of life and business lessons. Even if you are not interested in entrepreneurship or working in a startup, this class has so much to offer and makes you really think about your life and career decisions. Awesome speakers and class guests (people who do demonstrations provide hands on learning through role plays). Case based class, no quizzes or tests but writing assignments and polls are due regularly. MUST TAKE THIS CLASS!

This course is probably not directly useful for my internship or immediate post-MBA job. But it provides a systematic approach to view businesses in early-stage and this could be extremely useful in the long term.

I am not interested in starting my own venture, but the lessons learned in this course are highly valuable. Professor Wasserman is commitment to the course is astounding. Not only does he bring high energy to every class, but he also listens and then implements our feedback. Student expectations are reasonable. If you plan on missing classes please do your peers a favor and do not take this course.

In the long run I want to start a business and this course makes you think about how to anticipate some of challenges one faces as an entrepreneur. I will definitely recommend this course. It also works as a strategy and negotiation class. One of the best classes, I took during my time at Marshall, if not the best. The professor is incredibly organized with a great structure that facilitates the learning process: - You receive a weekly email with reminders about the week's schedule. - You have multiple role play exercises. - You have three interactions in panels and round tables with successful entrepreneurs, alumni of this founder's dilemmas course. - You have more insights into the cases read because the professor wrote them all and he currently continues to write more cases here at Marshall. Side note: You have one case to read per class, for almost all the weeks.