Venture Entrepreneurship

Course Purpose
In today's rapidly changing environment, having an entrepreneurial mindset is the key to enriching your life.
Through this course, you will learn many lessons from entrepreneurs or people who taken over and developed their family business with innovative ideas.
All the instructors are graduates of Kansai Gakuin University. i.g. A founder who achieved an initial public offering (IPO), a successor to listed companies, IPO specialists, venture entrepreneurs who aim for an IPO in the future.
This course will be very useful as role models when considering your career paths not only for entrepreneurs but also for those who find employment in companies.
Learning Goals
Students should be able to:
1 To deepen the understanding of the way entrepreneurs live, think, act, and network.
2 To understand the activities of successful entrepreneurs from a management perspective (vision, strategy, business model, marketing, organizational management, human resource development, etc.).
3 To understand business models by learning about the lecturers' business ideas and examining them yourself.
Topic
Session 1Class guidance
Session 2Theme: To seize luck - Balance between logic and emotion
Session 3Theme: Making the most of your unique style to bring about change – The joy and meaning of starting a business
Session 4Theme: Balancing being an entrepreneur and an employee - Starting a business doing what you want to do -
Session 5Theme: Job hunting, employment, IT company startup
Session 6Theme: Senior entrepreneurs who started businesses while still students
Session 7Theme: Innovation in the construction industry
Session 8Theme: Post-IPO growth strategy - Aiming to become a corporate group that represents Japan and is active worldwide -
Session 9Theme: Starting a business in the cosmetics industry: Japan and overseas views on beauty
Session 10Theme: Optimizing work
Session 11Theme: What to prepare as a student before entering society
Session 12Theme: Product development to solve startup problems
Session 13Theme: How to start a business/startup
Session 14Summary
**This content is based on April 1, 2025. For the latest syllabus information and details, please check the syllabus information inquiry page provided by the university.**