Jasmine-Anjali Taur is uniquely suited for entrepreneurial work. Jasmine attended and was credited for the following undergraduate Entrepreneurial Classes:
Innovation Neighborhood
This course is designed to introduce students to the numerous entrepreneurial activities that are part of Drexel University and the greater Philadelphia region. The course sparks curiosity about innovations and ideas not commonly encountered, and stimulates creative thinking about new opportunities.
Life Strategies I
Life Strategies is a two term series which reinforces entrepreneurship as an increasingly important life skill. First in the series, Life Strategies I, has two thrusts. It first explores the accelerating job market evolution and why future careers and earning a living will be vastly different from even recent history. Facts presented make the case people should embrace entrepreneurship as a ¿habit of mind” as they maneuver future career options. The course then introduces the personal skill set valuable to entrepreneurs, skills every student should consider honing to help them navigate their future whether or not they plan to be an entrepreneur.
Life Strategies II
Life Strategies II introduces the fundamentals of starting an entrepreneurial endeavor. The course provides students with a basic understanding of startup enterprise essentials and why a startup isn’t just a smaller version of a large business. The course is intended to give a student who has no business training the ability to frame a potential business idea for consideration by others using only a few simple models, common sense, and logic. Life Strategies I is a prerequisite.
Ready, Set, Fail
There are many students who say they want to be an entrepreneur, but they are often not ready for the risk that comes with starting and growing a business. Taking risks requires a deep appreciation of failure. This course will teach students how to appreciate failure, learn from it, and use these experiences to build future success in an entrepreneurial setting.
Ideation
Innovation is the driving force behind today’s economy and ideation supports an individual’s ability to innovate. This course provides students with tools, methods and self‐reflection techniques necessary to bring new ideas into reality. Through creative innovation, successful entrepreneurs not only create new ventures but also re-invent companies to remain competitive in an ever-changing market. Students in this course will use ideation techniques to develop new ideas, change or build upon established practices and apply these techniques in approaching and analyzing business situations. Students will be able to apply creative skills more effectively both personally and professionally.
Leading Start-Ups
Entrepreneurs face unique leadership challenges, especially when founding a new company. This course provides the aspiring entrepreneur with tools and frameworks necessary for creating strategy, building companies, and assembling human capital with limited resources. By exploring what entrepreneurial leaders actually do, and how they do it, the student will learn through experiential exercises both the challenges and the excitement of starting a new venture.
Social Entrepreneurship
This course examines how social entrepreneurs launch successful ventures to address the world’s most challenging social and environmental problems. The course introduces students to frameworks and methodologies that challenge current models to advance original solutions to existing problems. A passion for social change is advanced by adopting a market orientation and data-driven approaches that encompass both social and financial outcomes.
Building Entrepreneurial Teams
The overall goal of this course is to evaluate the different approaches in forming teams during the startup of a new company. We will compare and contrast evidence-based and anecdotal team formation models to determine their advantages and disadvantages as well as their effects on the expected outcomes.
Entrepreneurship & New Tech.
Creating a new technology venture offers unique challenges. Indeed, innovation and advances in technology are prevalent, and technological innovation leads to competitive advantage. Students are introduced to the challenges of new technology- based companies that include: the complexity of intellectual property, research team development, and sources of funding. This course will examine entrepreneurship in technology markets and take a deep view of what it takes to be a technology entrepreneur.
Inno. In Established Companies
This course provides students with an understanding of how companies remain competitive using innovation as the driving force behind product or service development. Entrepreneurs challenge assumptions and create value in established organizations. While most executives would agree that innovation is the key to a sustainable business in the 21st century, few seem to understand how to make it a reality. Students will be introduced to various kinds of internal and joint ventures, such as corporate venture-capital investments, alliances, mergers, and acquisitions to create value and promote entrepreneurship within an organization. Students will develop skills that are important for careers in an entrepreneurial setting and corporate venture activities.
Clean Tech Ventures
This course will provide the groundwork to understanding new venture development in energy markets. Through experiential learning, specifically, field visits to local energy companies, and through guest speakers, students will develop an appreciation and understanding of the market conditions and policy implications of new ventures in this sector.
Quotes taken from Drexel Course Catalog.