SYMSYS161
Lessons from the Trenches: Startup Case Studies Applied to New Business Ideas
A weekly project-based, seminar style course where students will engage with notable entrepreneurs around lessons learned from building early-stage companies and apply these lessons towards their own entrepreneurial ideas or pursuits.
Using real-world examples and practical frameworks from early-stage startup founders and investors, we will help students navigate the idea maze and 0-to-1 journey, with a particular emphasis on products powered by Generative AI (LLMs, GPT-4, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, Whisper) in some way, shape, or form.
Students with a technical, entrepreneurial, or product-building background are encouraged to apply.
Instructors
Parth Bhakta
Founder/CEO at Vivian
Divya Gupta
Partner at Sequoia
Guest Speakers
Advisors and Mentors
Spring 2023 - Thursdays 4:30-6:20pm