Ed Zschau Visits Caltech to Teach Entrepreneurial Development

For the 2017 spring term, with financial support from The Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, Caltech invited Ed Zschau to teach Entrepreneurial Development (E 102) in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science (EAS).

Zschau is a senior research specialist at Princeton University's Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. He is also a former congressman, representing California's 12th District from 1983 to 1987, and has extensive business experience, including having founded a computer company in the 1960s and later becoming a general partner in a venture capital firm in the 1980s.

The E 102 course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the basics of getting a high-technology business started, including early-stage patent, organizational, legal, and financing issues; growing a company; taking a company public; and mergers and acquisitions.