Reviews of professor Dirk Brown

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is a real entrepreneur, so he knows what he is doing. I learned a lot in this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Graduate level entrepreneurship class (Innovation and New Venture Analysis). Excellent course tailored to the needs of the 5 class participants. Had appropriate amount of guest lectures and always good in class discussions. Final project was to present our business idea to a panel of real venture capitalists.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course material isn't difficult by itself. He makes it convoluted and finance-heavy to pad the material, when in actuality the necessary information can be taught in a single class. I know this because another professor taught a unit on IP and it took an hour to go over what most managers will need in the private sector.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I'm not the most diligent student when it comes to attendance and I'm 100% sure he missed more classes than I did, and I used well over my allotted absences. You spend most of the class learning about entrepreneurship and listening to a plethora of guest speakers until he decides to post a syllabus and pile a semester of work into the last 2 weeks.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I learned so much from him and the amount of effort he puts is amazing. I am 100% happy with everything related to the course and the great teaching skills of Professor Brown.