Engineering & Entrepreneurship III: E2 Start-Up Year 2

In E2 Start-Up Year 2, students, as they did in the prior year, form mock companies consisting of three- or four-member teams and develop a product that employs multiple technologies, techniques, and tools to address social challenges in the world. In this second year of Start-Up, expectations for products, prototypes, and other deliverables are higher. In addition to the deliverables of a product prototype, appropriate product branding and logos, a business plan, and a team investor’s presentation (pitch deck), students also develop a product commercial or crowdfunding video. Three or four times during the semester, companies formally present their investor pitch-decks to the class and panels of mock venture capitalists (mVCs).