This course provides an overview of the entrepreneurial mindset. Topics to be explored include the specific knowledge, skills, and traits most appropriate to pursuing a successful startup. Individual case studies are used to highlight personal and team startup successes and failures, so as to draw lessons from both.

This course provides an overview of how customer discovery is fundamentally different to customer or market research and offers a 'lean startup' validation template to develop and talk to customers about-the Startup Launch Assistance or SLAM diagram. The course takes students through all 8 steps on the SLAM diagram.

This course provides an overview of how customer discovery is fundamentally different to customer or market research and offers a 'lean startup' validation template to develop and talk to customers about-the Startup Launch Assistance or SLAM diagram. The course takes students through all 8 steps on the SLAM diagram.

This course provides an overview of how a validated startup should ideally plan its full launch and build a complete execution plan to ensure that a startup is on a solid path to breakeven and ultimately profitability. The course takes students through all 8 steps on the GRAND diagram.

This course provides an outline for individuals to convey their startup 'story' to customers, investors, and other stakeholders, appreciate the different audiences to whom they will have to pitch (and their varying needs and expectations) and how to deliver a pitch in the most successful way possible. This includes the opportunity to build a 'live' pitch deck and to pitch it for real (and learn from the feedback).

This course explores the role of events in the entrepreneurial businesses of those serving the spiritual needs of persons and communities. Special attention is paid to design and facilitation in the communication of a theme and message as well as skills and business acumen to carry that out successfully.

This directed study option provides individuals with opportunities to design their own courses alongside faculty from the Graduate School of Theology at the University of Redlands on a one-on-one basis. The directed study may be disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or from areas outside the current liberal studies curriculum. A professor will work directly with students to connect them with appropriate instructors that will work with subject that will relate to the students' academic goal.