Learner Reviews & Feedback for Creating and Developing a Tech Startup by École Polytechnique

Well structured and complete overview on a very exciting topic make this MOOC really enjoyable and interesting to attend. The speakers are of high quality, coming from all the types of activity involved in start up ecosystem (even though quite all HEC or X graduates :)) and with very clear speeches.

I highly recommend.

excellent

Useful course!

Great course

Ótimo curso.

Great course, great teachers and a lot of good content. Clearly defines the challenges in creating a technological start up and how to overcome them. Just would have focused the quizzes a bit more on theoretical content, involving some mathematics, economics or accounting for example.

Thank you very much! This course is so useful to me!

Excellent ! MOOC à faire si tu entreprends !

On apprend grace au partage d'expérience d'anciens élèves entrepreneurs !

Les cours sont bien organisés et on y expose l'essentiel.

Merci pour ce cours qui m'a aiguillé dans mon parcours d'innovation

Good course touching many aspects, but with little depth (time does not allow for more). I consider it a good initial awareness course for these matters, but more in-depth training should be followed afterwards

It would have been better to be in English!

Through this courses, I found many helpful advises from professionals. Thank you!

nice

Very interesting speakers with extremely different personalities, styles, backgrounds! Assignment way too intense and not enough related to course materials. Felt like doing free work for a really existing company without clearly defined learning experience /advantage for us. However enjoyed and appreciated the course and will certainly profit from it in the future.

great learnings about tech start ups, very entrepreneurial. had some reserves about the assignment which is graded by peers who are sometimes not objective (someone rated me top grade (3) on one answer and someone else 1

Excellent content undermined by technical problems. The non-multiple-choice assignment (which involves analyzing a business plan) is particularly annoying. It requires uploading of screenshots but there is no "upload" feature is available. The assignment must be graded by "peers" -- which means, if you happen to take this course at a time when no one else is taking it, you're out of luck.

Re: content, I would discourage you from taking this course if you don't speak fluent French. Indeed, you even need to understand how the French sometimes mis-translate into English, because some words in the answers to the multiple-choice quizzes don't exist in any English dictionary -- you will only understand them if you can guess what French term inspired the bad translation. The pace of lecture-hall-style discourse in the videos is such that subtitles will not save you if you don't understand French.

These technical and minor content issues are unfortunate, because the core content i s really quite good.

This course could be improved under several aspects.

1. Some of the contents are more "academical" than "practical", making the course not particularly adapted for aspiring entrepreneurs.

2. The assignments are poor and there is no interaction with the teachers whatsoever even if you have paid for obtaining a certification for the course.

3. Despite the description, the course is almost entirely in French language with only English subtitles.

4. There are several other courses about creating and developing startups that are better than this one, with more practical and direct application (and mostly for free!).

missing follow-up from organizers ; exercise too based on copy pasting from content / laborious for smartphone type of course online

Very confusing course, half in English, half in French. Wouldn't necessarily recommend unless your French is superb.