This was by far the worst class I have ever taken.

Professor Wilson is a unique professor in the worst way possible. Allow me to explain a few of the largest pain points.

1. Participation - It was agitating to have participation as a significant portion of the grade (20%) seeing as Wilson essentially treated questions and comments as something to check off a list. Rather than engage with thoughtful comments or questions - Wilson consistently glazed over them and opted to flex his surface-level knowledge on people who spoke up with very simple questions. For Wilson, our questions were not to help our understanding, they were to give him a platform to stroke his ego talking in circles about the concepts we would not ultimately be tested on. More on that later. Moreover, at the end of the course, we didn't even find out our participation grade - we got an email saying that if we want to know what our participation grade was we would have to schedule a 1 on 1 zoom meeting during the next quarter.

2. Weekly Assignments/Exams - The vast majority of time in this class was focused on us discussing the weekly case studies. Frankly, that's fine. It's fine to me that we discuss the work that we were doing every week. However, THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT THE CASE STUDIES ON THE EXAM. AKA - THE WORK WE DO AND FOCUS ON DURING THE ENTIRE LECTURE EVERY WEEK HAD ZERO TO DO WITH THE EXAMS. The exams were only on the readings which were given very very little attention every week. The exams also had very little application - the midterm was 100% based on memorization and had no multiple choice. The final was better, it had multiple choice and questions which let you try to apply concepts, but it was still a small portion in comparison to the overwhelming free-response memorization.

3. So much potential - I was very excited to take this class. I thought that this would be fun and the material would be interesting enough that the professor wouldn't matter. I was very wrong. Professor Wilson leads with a thesis that ultimately.... applying entrepreneurial skills and acting in a hands-on approach will lead to the best learning in entrepreneurship. It's crazy that he's able to acknowledge that then give a test with no multiple-choice and no concept application. For this reason, it really just left me feeling like I had nothing to gain from the material. If application is the foremost important aspect... Why are we not applying? To be fair, we applied some ideas to the case studies, but even then it was unclear what the takeaways were. For example, Wilson spent over an hour digging into Tesla and how Elon Musk was irresponsible and made horrible entrepreneurial decisions at every corner. The takeaway was to not be like Elon Musk (The man who added $120B to his net worth during a pandemic). Shouldn't we be trying to figure out what went right despite making mistakes rather than just ripping into how overvalued and stupid it is? Professor Wilson, you're missing the point of your own curriculum entirely.

In conclusion, I really really did not like this class. Read the rest of the reviews on Bruinwalk, and please don't take this if you just want to dabble in entrepreneurship because it seems like a fun course to add to your schedule. If you're doing the entrepreneurship minor, I'm sorry for you because Wilson is the head of the department and I believe this is one of the required classes.

Good luck!

Where do I begin on Professor Wilson? I admit he's funny, but at times it's sassy/sarcastic. I loved the class and thought it was a good introduction to entrepreneurship. I really only learned through the simulations, case studies, and maybe, parts of his lectures. HOWEVER, quizzes are brutal. Yes, he gives you the sample quizzes ahead of time, but it's a lot of information to memorize. Basically, he wants you to memorize the sample quizzes given, then comes quiz time in EVERY CLASS you must regurgitate that on paper EXACTLY from the text within 10-20 minutes tops. Bring an ice pack with you to every class since you'll be writing THE fastest that you can during the quizzes before the time runs out. No time to think, just write. RIP my hand. If you're shy and don't like to speak, this may not be the class for you because participation matters. So the final was 68 MC questions and 37 short answer questions. We were only given 1 hour & 50 minutes. Just so brutal...

I am an engineering major and I took this class for my tech breadth. I really enjoyed the class, you learn some valuable stuff. I like talking about the current events at the start of every class.
For the class, the workload is quite heavy, there are assigned readings and a quiz every week. The quizzes are usually similar to the practice ones he posts, but you need to read the reading, make a summary, and a quizlet to be successful.
The group project is not too bad, you create your own product and pitch it.
The final is very long and hard. 36 short answer free response and 153 multiple choice in the 180 minutes. It is doable, but you need to pace yourself.
Overall, I highly recommend this class as it is one of the few I've taken where I learned something useful

Not sure what my grade will be yet (just finished taking the final), but it's a very fun intro class to the entrepreneurship minor. There are weekly quizzes on readings, then also a few group case studies, one low weighted group presentation, a final, and also a 20% participation grade. The workload was pretty steady/manageable and was on quite interesting stuff as this was very much so a business class, had a lot of useful/practical information compared to the average college class so I'd definitely recommend taking it if you're interested in business or are thinking about the minor.

This was the first class I took for the entrepreneurship minor and I was really concerned at first because the workload can be intimidating. Professor Wilson can come off as a little cocky but over the course of the class he warms up to you and you learn that his counter questions aren't meant to belittle you but make you really think about what you say in class. He always gives a 10-15 minute break halfway through class.

As for the grading, each week you have to submit a 1-2 page group paper about a case he assigns. Instead of a midterm he gives reading quizzes every week that are pretty challenging, but the saving grace is that he provides sample quizzes online that are usually (basically) the same as the quiz in class. Then there's a final (which compiles all the quizzes, plus questions that make you apply what you learned). Then lastly, you have a group project and presentation which all hinges on upon whether you have a good or bad group (and they are randomly assigned groups).

All in all, this class has a lot of material in comparison to most classes you take at UCLA but in my opinion everything you learn is pretty useful. Plus Wilson is funny and the classroom is always nice since it's in Anderson.

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The lectures are alright. The reading content (aka the stuff that determines your grade) is really really dry. You have to read a bunch of stuff about the frameworks and strategies and the exams expect you to memorize it all. The midterm is the same as the practice midterm. If you memorize it you get an A. I wanted to put that information out here because knowing that was the only way people got A's in the class. The median for the midterm was a 92%. The median for the final was 42%. the questions are all about defining, listing, mentioning what you read in the readings , so this change in the curve was caused just by the fact that you can memorize the midterm but not the final.

I did learn some interesting things about entrepreneurship in the discussion. However, the readings and testing procedure was so frustrating that it makes it hard to focus on the good stuff.

Basically I agree with the comment above. The only key thing you get an A in this class is you know in advance that the midterm will be EXACTLY THE SAME as the practice midterm, and the final will also have about 1/3 of the SAME problems from the midterm. As a result, if you can memorize everything from the practice midterm, do the writings on time, and attend every class (he takes attendance), you are guaranteed an A- at least. But if you don't know that piece of information from midterm, well, the class average is 92%, and you know what you will end up with.

You do learn some from the class, but in my opinion, not a lot compared to other classes with similar topics. In general, I won't recommend him at all.