MGMT 161
Business Plan Development
Description: Lecture, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 160. Fundamentals of developing effective business plans, both in presentation and written form. Basic principles of designing and articulating plans for sales, marketing, product or service, operations, financials, management, and staffing functions of new startup businesses. How to develop well-written investment-quality business plans and business plan presentations, understand various analytical processes required to produce such plans, improve student writing and oral presentation skills, and formally present their business plans to audience of angel and venture capital investors. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Winter 2020 - First, if you can, take other professor's 161, if you cannot, this class is also doable. The workload depends on your willingness to work, it can be easy if you do not care, and very stressful if you do. The professor is more a businessman than a professor. His reviews on our presentations are constructive mostly. But he is not a good professor. The class is not well organized as mentioned by other reviews, and not fair from the beginning. Some people get projects with real serial entrepreneurs outside the school, some develop the business based on the idea they came up on the first class. And yeah, he is very much a big ego guy who loves to show off... Even though this has nothing to do with the class, but it kind of piss people off... I did not want to give him a review until he sent out emails blaming students who wrote bad reviews on bruinwalk (honestly they are not hate comments) and ask other students to write good reviews... He values his bruinwalk rating more than students' true feelings towards the class. And he gives out critiques to students saying it helps you improve, but won't take critiques from students. Both good reviews and bad reviews on here are saying the truth, I guess if you are his kind of person, and you don't mind his personality, this class is fine for you.
Winter 2020 - First, if you can, take other professor's 161, if you cannot, this class is also doable. The workload depends on your willingness to work, it can be easy if you do not care, and very stressful if you do. The professor is more a businessman than a professor. His reviews on our presentations are constructive mostly. But he is not a good professor. The class is not well organized as mentioned by other reviews, and not fair from the beginning. Some people get projects with real serial entrepreneurs outside the school, some develop the business based on the idea they came up on the first class. And yeah, he is very much a big ego guy who loves to show off... Even though this has nothing to do with the class, but it kind of piss people off... I did not want to give him a review until he sent out emails blaming students who wrote bad reviews on bruinwalk (honestly they are not hate comments) and ask other students to write good reviews... He values his bruinwalk rating more than students' true feelings towards the class. And he gives out critiques to students saying it helps you improve, but won't take critiques from students. Both good reviews and bad reviews on here are saying the truth, I guess if you are his kind of person, and you don't mind his personality, this class is fine for you.
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Fall 2024 - Arguably the best Professor in the minor, he issues a lot of reading material but keep in mind that you only have class once a week. Worked in the same group the entire cohort so be extremely cautious when choosing your group! Very practical and learned from his great real life experience.
Fall 2024 - Arguably the best Professor in the minor, he issues a lot of reading material but keep in mind that you only have class once a week. Worked in the same group the entire cohort so be extremely cautious when choosing your group! Very practical and learned from his great real life experience.
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Spring 2022 - I enjoyed taking this course and I would recommend it to students that are interested in learning about entrepreneurship. I probably would not take this course or professor again for the sake of saving my GPA. This class brought down my GPA and I have been getting A's in all of my other classes at UCLA. The exams for this class were unnecessarily difficult and some of the topics were not gone over thoroughly. Lectures feel rushed and disorganized, because a new topic is introduced every week, so it can be difficult to transition and keep up with the concepts. Professor gave guidance on how to grow as an individual, however, the professor has an attitude problem toward students.
Spring 2022 - I enjoyed taking this course and I would recommend it to students that are interested in learning about entrepreneurship. I probably would not take this course or professor again for the sake of saving my GPA. This class brought down my GPA and I have been getting A's in all of my other classes at UCLA. The exams for this class were unnecessarily difficult and some of the topics were not gone over thoroughly. Lectures feel rushed and disorganized, because a new topic is introduced every week, so it can be difficult to transition and keep up with the concepts. Professor gave guidance on how to grow as an individual, however, the professor has an attitude problem toward students.
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