ENTREPRENEURSHIP STUDIES

ENT Capstone

The Capstone Seminar in Entrepreneurship is the culminating curricular experience for UD Entrepreneurship students. The course involves a semester-long consulting assignment with a local startup venture or social enterprise.

Students collaborate with their client and their assigned mentor to develop project objectives and a Letter of Engagement. Leveraging market research through customer surveys, focus groups, and one-on-one conversations, the students develop actions the client can implement to achieve their objectives. Students present the recommendations with estimated implementation costs and timelines Student teams can put in more than 200 supervised consulting hours during the semester, and the projects are all done pro-bono for the clients

This past year we worked with 9 diverse clients in our Capstone Course with a wide range of project types These projects have included business plan development, brand development, business strategy, social media planning, and expansion opportunities The clients include an array of for-profit and mission-based ventures ranging from brick and mortar retail to mobile services to non-profits. All in all, our 9 capstone teams, along with their mentors, delivered more than 2,040 consulting hours to clients at no charge.

Special thanks to our clients and our mentors Without each of them, the Capstone Seminar would not be possible.

2022-2023 ENT Capstone