At the end of the semester, the teams submit a final data product to their client and can write about this working experience on their CVs.
Data Entrepreneurship in in america rcs data entrepreneurship, and to get acquainted with a potential role as start-up entrepreneur.
During the course, student teams go through the first few phases of a typical (lean) start-up process by building the foundations of their own data-driven start-up, either from scratch or based on a business idea that already received some traction prior to the course.
Teams get help from experienced business coaches and mentors on their entrepreneurial journey.
In line with the open innovation paradigm, this course also engages a number of corporates open to collaborate with any of the nascent start-ups in case they happen to develop a business idea that is of joint interest.
JADS is proud to see that many teams continue developing their business (idea) once the course has ended (as an extra-curricular activity). In just over five years, our students founded 35 data-driven start-ups, of which quite a few became successful in terms of attracting clients and/or funding , such as Bluetick and Pushbird.