New Ventures: Develop

Description from DukeHub

New Ventures: Develop is designed to help students gain experience building and testing a business model for their own ideas or as a team member working on someone else's venture. Students will explore the process of evaluating and understanding whether a business is worth doing. Students will learn to assess opportunities, develop and test business models, understand financials, and build a successful team. For ideas that have been validated through New Ventures Discovery or through the independent customer discovery process, New Ventures Development can help move from idea to action. This course is for both founders and for students interested in forming teams around ideas sourced from peers across the university. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.

Skills

• leadershipdescription: "team" and 2 more
• financeAI review: "understand financials"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "team"
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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