Assessment 1. Interview with an Entrepreneur is worth 20 marks, including 20 marks for an individual component and 0 marks for a group component. This group component is a hurdle task for this assessment, which means it must be completed to be awarded the marks for this assessment. In your chosen group, you will identify an entrepreneur and conduct a semi-structured interview with them (Part 3 - Group - 0 marks). You will explore who the entrepreneur is, what they do, how they came up with the idea, the challenges they faced, and the success they experienced. Before conducting the interview, you will develop, individually, 1 to 2 A4 pages of annotated questions for the interview (Part 1 - Individual - 10 marks). These questions should reference relevant concepts and theories discussed in class, explaining their relevance and what they aim to uncover. After conducting the interview, you will analyse it using concepts and theories discussed in class to identify the entrepreneur's mindset. Your findings will be captured in a blog post to be published in our Entrepreneurs of Sydney blog (Part 2 - Individual - 10 marks).

Assessment 2. Group Pitch is worth 50 marks, including 40 marks for a group component and 10 for an individual component. You can either identify an opportunity that can be exploited by creating a new venture or use the opportunity identified by the entrepreneur you interviewed in Assessment 1. You will shape the opportunity using the steps of the Lean Start-up Method and Design Thinking. You will determine the overall context and size of the opportunity, the product-market positioning at entry and how this may change as the business grows, and the business ecosystem that the new venture needs to develop its new offering. You will present the new venture as a pitch targeted to a panel of investors. The aim of the pitch is to assemble the resources and the ecosystem needed to launch the new venture. The pitch should be informed by the principles, concepts, and frameworks covered in the unit, as well as the expert advice given by guest lecturers. The pitch is submitted in four parts. First, you will submit a slide deck with appendices and/or attachments (Part 1 - Group - 20 marks) that provide evidence of the process used in identifying and shaping the opportunity over the four weeks of the unit. This includes documenting the experiments conducted using the Lean Start-up Method, iterations of your opportunity and its Minimum Viable Product based on the results of these experiments, and feedback from peers, entrepreneurs, and the teacher. Second, during the Week 5 lecture, you will present the pitch (Part 2 - Group - 20 marks). Third, after the pitch, every group member will answer a question about the pitch (Part 3 - Individual - 5 marks). Fourth, each member will complete a peer evaluation for the other group members (Part 4 - Individual - 5 marks).

Assessment 3. Investor Feedback is worth 10 marks and is an individual assigment. You will act as a member of the panel of investors to evaluate one of the Group Pitches presented for Assessment 2. In your feedback, you will assess whether the new venture is a good investment opportunity (e.g., how favourable the business context is, the attractiveness of the opportunity, the strength of the new venture team) and provide recommendations for the new venture (e.g. key strengths, key weaknesses) including requesting additional information or revisions. Your evaluation should be informed by the principles, concepts, and frameworks covered in the unit, as well as the expert advice given by guest lecturers.

Assessment 4. Reflective Portfolio is worth 20 marks and is an individual assigment. You will compose a reflective portfolio on the development of your capacity and potential for entrepreneurship and innovation. The portfolio will weave together personal experience with unit concepts to highlight aspects of your learning journey. Although the portfolio is due at the end of the semester, you will have to provide evidence of your engagement of your engagement throughout the unit. This evidence includes self-reflections completed at the end of each lecture, your idea generation journal and other artefacts produced during the unit. You may incorporate multimedia items in your portfolio.

Detailed information for each assessment can be found on Canvas.