Earn credit while you build. Every course here is open to undergraduates, and most count toward the Certificate in Entrepreneurship.
Course pages on the registrar's site carry the official details. Enrollment status is shown on each card.
The gateway course. Students form teams in week one and work an idea through jobs-to-be-done, customer discovery, beachhead markets, MVP design, pricing models and pitch presentations.
Find a problem worth solving, then engineer a solution with modern AI workflows, customer interviews and lean execution.
Meets weekly in Bainer Hall 1503. Founders, investors and technology leaders discuss technical architecture, fundraising and team building, with live student Q&A. The credit version of the open weekly Speaker Series.
Multidisciplinary tracks testing business solutions for challenges sourced from industry and government. Teams interview stakeholders and get weekly sponsor feedback.
Students are actively discouraged from arriving with a pre-set idea. The seminar teaches how to discover worthwhile problems, based on the Y Combinator curriculum. The credit version of the open weekly Startup School.
Offerings being designed and proposed across the College of Engineering. You cannot enroll in these yet.
A proposed sequence: intro, ENG 108 or Innovation for Impact, Product I, electives, and a capstone.
Proposed hands-on product courses using AI tools, with department-owned specializations.
Proposed one-year product-building master's degrees and a designated emphasis for graduate researchers.
ENG 008 is open to every major and is where most students start. Questions? Email startup@ucdavis.edu.