Entrepreneurship Program

Joel Blake '12 presents his business plan to a panel of judges at the 2011 Business Plan Competition which was one of the events featured at SBA Day. Panelists included Associate Professor of Finance Dima Leshchinskii, IDG Ventures co-founder and CFO Susan Cheng, Assistant Professor of Marketing Fabian Eggers, and NetApp Vice President Laura Pickering.

Entrepreneurship Option in Management Major, B.S. in Business

Silicon Valley is known as the cradle of innovation. Hewlett-Packard, Google, Yahoo, Intel, and eBay, among others, all got their start here. If your goal is to launch your own business, and perhaps follow in the footsteps of the above companies, our Entrepreneurship program may be for you. The curriculum includes courses in opportunity assessment, entrepreneurial finance, and new venture strategy and marketing, along with a specialized entrepreneurship capstone course.

This is an example of a possible guideline for on-time graduation from Menlo College. For full requirements and prerequisites, please refer back to degree checklists or the course catalog. Students must also pass the English Proficiency Exam in order to graduate.

• ¹ ENG 101 or ENG 099 depending on placement test score
• ² MTH 102 or MTH 101 or MTH 090 depending on placement test score
• ³ MCM 151 or POL 150 or PSY 101 or SSC 150
• ⁴ ENG 101 or ENG 102 depending on fall placement
• ⁵ MTH 101 or MTH 102 depending on fall placement
• ⁶ AST 150 or BIO 101 or BIO 130 or CHM 111 or PSC 160
• ⁷ ART (numbered 150 or higher) or HIS or HUM or LIT or PHI or MCM 300
• ⁸ LIT 150 or LIT 300 or LIT 301 or LIT 302 or LIT 303 or LIT 304
• ⁹ HUM 307 or HUM 311 or MCM 308 or MGT 325