Startup Challenge
Working in in a team, you’ll go through the entire entrepreneurial process, from identifying a business idea and developing a viable business model to pitching your startup to potential investors.
AT A GLANCE:
Challenge: Data-driven case study
3 core courses
Skills workshops: Creativity
1 Enrichment elective
Required for students with fewer than 60 transfer credits
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Core courses
Business Analytics
Operations
Entrepreneurship
You’ll apply interdisciplinary knowledge in areas such as marketing, finance, operations, and entrepreneurship to design a business plan, create a minimum viable product (MVP), and establish a go-to-market strategy.
Think like an entrepreneur
Alongside faculty mentors and industry experts, your team will navigate the challenges of funding, scaling, and positioning a new business.
The challenge offers a dynamic, hands-on experience that encourages creativity, risk-taking, and practical problem-solving, ultimately leading to the opportunity to pitch your business to real-world investors.
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Skills workshops
Skills workshops are intensive, hands-on classes integrated throughout your core program. Focused on developing essential soft skills—such as public speaking, teamwork, and leadership—these workshops are fundamental to excelling in core challenges and for long-term professional success.
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The Hult curriculum broke down walls in so many ways that studying felt more like real-world job experience. The emphasis was on solutions, adaptations, pivots, reactions, and predictions.
Marc Watum
South Africa
Class of 2017
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