SEA

UCSC 2016 Summer Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA) Crown 90 for Graduates & Undergraduates
This 8-week program is offered by UC Santa Cruz’s Summer Session. Based on the Lean Launchpad/NSF I-Corps model. Students build teams consisting of one or more students as entrepreneurial leads and a mentor with start-up experience to help the students discover and develop their business model.

Students in this course learn who their core and tertiary customers are, the marketing processes required for initial adoption and downstream sustainability, what data will be required by future partnerships and users, and core project management, financial, legal, and marketing resources needed for new companies. Students also learn to assess intellectual property and risk before they design and build and to identify financing and other key resources early.

This course begins with a 1-day intensive workshop, 6 weeks of webinars, and ends with a 1-day intensive workshop when students give their final presentations.