Well it is official, I have moved to James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.  It’s a great school with – similar to Skidmore – really exceptional students (albeit a lot more of them 18,500 students vs. 2,400 students at Skidmore).  I will be working with some truly talented educators and scholars to bolster JMU’s entrepreneurial educational experience.  This fall I will be teaching MGT-372, Entrepreneurship.  As JMU has a follow-on course in venture creation MGT-472, I have developed a course which blends together many of the most successful elements from my experiences and exceptional student feedback from teaching entrepreneurship in the past in an effort to set the students up for success if they choose to pursue venture creation farther – see my earlier post with student comments here. It is my goal to extend the runway so to speak so that students are able to begin experimenting with their ideas earlier and really grasp the teachable lessons around the concept of value creation sooner rather than later.  As in years past the course will be very experiential right from the beginning.  However, this time around I have decided to experiment with giving the teams a variety of team challenges over the course of the semester – challenges I will describe and discuss the outcomes of in later posts in an effort to devote sufficient blog space to the reasoning of each challenge, how it relates to value creation, and what I learned from the student feedback about the take-aways from each exercise.  Additionally, the course will close with every team being tasked with generating sales revenue, actually running a revenue-positive business, as in previous incantations of the course.  Here’s to a new semester! Good luck all.