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Please indicate your College and Major:
Consideration Requirements: For this
application to be considered, you must:
• attach an unofficial SJSU transcript and your
résumé, and
• complete application and questions.
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Email this application and attachments to Professor Bennet at
steven.bennet@sjsu.edu. Acceptance is not automatic. The
application process includes a personal interview with
program coordinators. After this application and all necessary
attachments are received, you may be contacted to schedule an
interview
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understand the SJSU Policy on Academic
Integrity, have read the course requirements
and have completed this form in an honest
and forthright manner.
GRADE TRANSCRIPT AND RESUME
Please attach your most recent unofficial grade transcript (from my.sjsu.edu) and current
resume.
APPLICATION QUESTIONS:
1. Why are you interested in the Entrepreneurship Lab?
2. Describe any entrepreneurial experience that you have?
Business 186H – Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB)
Spring 2015: Wednesday 6:00 – 8:45 PM
Room: BBC 102; Class Number: 27837
Application Deadline:
Completed applications should be emailed to Professor Bennet (steven.bennet@sjsu.edu). Applications
received by January 10th will have priority. Applications will be accepted through February 1st, but are
subject to availability.
Course Description:
Entrepreneurship is best learned through hands-on experience. The Entrepreneurship Lab will enable
students to apply the academic knowledge gained from the entrepreneurship courses currently offered to
real life situations with early stage enterprises. E-Lab explores all facets of managing and growing a
young, entrepreneurial organization, including building the team, sales, marketing, operations and finance.
It provides the opportunity to learn with a practical internship and roundtables with entrepreneurs, venture
capitalists, and others, in the new venture ecosystem.
Students will integrate experiences from placements in entrepreneurial companies with required readings,
case discussions, and guest speakers. Students will have the opportunity to shares their experiences and
learn from classmates in other placements. The instructor will also hold one-on-one sessions with students
to provide overall supervision and to assure that the student is integrating classroom learning with the
internship experiences. Students will be able to rank the internship opportunities by preference. While we
will do our best to place all students in an internship opportunity of their choosing, there is no guarantee
that we will be able to do so.
The course will be evaluated and graded on the basis of intermediate and final deliverables summarizing
the company project or internship, the work completed by the student, and the academic, practical, and
personal learning from it. Alternatively, if appropriate, the student could prepare a case study on the
company.
Prerequisites and selection criteria:
It is recommended (but not required) that you have completed one of the following courses prior to the
semester that you are applying:
Bus 131D: Marketing in New Ventures
Bus 173C: Small Business Finance
Bus 181: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Bus 182: Business Plans
Bus 183: Global Entrepreneurship
Bus 186S: Venture Lab
Acceptance into the course will be based on an application, resume, and interview. Since this will be a
multi-disciplinary course, a variety of backgrounds, concentrations and experience of students will be
sought. Students must be available to work on an internship with a company for a minimum of 8 hours per
week for 10 weeks during the semester.
Instructor:
Steve Bennet: Joined the San Jose State faculty in 2006 and has taught Entrepreneurial Finance (Bus
173C), Corporate Finance (Bus 170) , Entrepreneurship Lab (ELAB: Bus 186H), Venture Lab (VLAB) and
Silicon Valley Experience (Bus 297D). He is also on the Steering Committee of the Silicon Valley Center
for Entrepreneurship (SVCE) and faculty advisor to the E-Society. Most of his time is spent in the new
venture ecosystem as CFO and Angel Investor in high growth start-up ventures. He earned an MBA from
UCLA, a BS Economics from Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and is a CPA..