High-tech Entrepreneurship Master
Curriculum
CORE
A shared academic foundation. These required modules build essential skills for long-term growth in your field.
Must Take
Introduction
Start your journey with a bootcamp-style course that brings students from every programme together. Learn the fundamentals of Harbour.Space’s hands-on model, meet your peers, and get ready to collaborate across disciplines.
From Zero to Hero
The course represents a deep dive into concepts and frameworks introduced during orientation. It is designed to teach students the process of creating a new venture. It introduces its participants to the concepts, challenges, and tools needed to create a successful new venture. Business model design & validation frameworks are studied and applied to the teams’ startups.
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Major Core
These modules form the backbone of your education. They are designed to help you think critically, solve complex problems, and build the deep technical or strategic skills required for your discipline.
Lean Startup Bootcamp
Want to turn your ideas into real-world impact? In the Lean Startup Bootcamp, you’ll learn how to test, build, and launch ventures that solve real problems. Through hands-on projects and proven tools like Lean Startup and Design Thinking, you’ll gain the skills and mindset to innovate in any field—whether you’re into business, tech, design, science, or social change.
Sales as a Science
Sales as a Science offers a structured exploration of modern B2B sales, combining strategic frameworks with practical tools. Students learn to navigate the full sales cycle—from buyer behavior to sales methodology—while developing a comprehensive Sales Playbook. The course emphasizes analytical thinking and decision-making through the lens of commercial leadership.
Product Strategy
Product Strategy provides a comprehensive framework for creating and delivering products that generate lasting value. Students will investigate key concepts such as value propositions, product-market fit, and go-to-market strategy, while exploring the organizational and operational factors that shape strategic choices. Emphasis is placed on integrated thinking across product, business, and ecosystem contexts.
Financial Modelling
Financial Modelling Workshop offers a structured, hands-on approach to building financial projections for early-stage ventures. Students learn to define core assumptions, model revenue and cost drivers, and assess funding strategies. Emphasis is placed on model logic, presentation clarity, and the ability to adapt financial structures to evolving business realities.
Pitching to Investors
Pitching to Investors prepares students to craft and deliver concise, high-impact presentations to one of the most demanding audiences: investors. Over three weeks, participants refine their individual presentation style, learn how to frame startup narratives, and master the use of visual storytelling to support funding goals. The course culminates in a polished, investor-grade pitch.
Demo Day Bootcamp
Demo Day Bootcamp is an intensive, practice-driven course designed to prepare students for real investor engagement. Students refine their Capstone startup projects through targeted feedback, financial planning, and go-to-market strategy. With mentorship from experienced VCs, the course culminates in a high-stakes investor pitch, simulating a professional fundraising environment.
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Capstone Project
The Capstone Project is the culmination of the High-Tech Entrepreneurship program, where you integrate and apply everything you have learned to solve real-world business problems. Working independently or in teams, you will put your entrepreneurial skills to the test, demonstrating your readiness to create, lead, and innovate in the tech industry.
Startup
Launch your own startup as your capstone project. From ideation to MVP development, you will work through the entire startup lifecycle, applying entrepreneurial principles, product development, and go-to-market strategies learned throughout the program.
Client Work
Work on a real-world project for an external client. This capstone option provides hands-on experience collaborating with industry partners, managing client expectations, and delivering professional solutions to real business challenges.
Independent Project
Design and execute your own independent project, driven by your unique interests and career goals. This capstone option offers maximum flexibility to explore innovative ideas, conduct research, or develop solutions that reflect your personal vision and professional aspirations.
ELECTIVES
Choose from a rotating selection of specialised topics to deepen your interests. Availability may vary year to year.
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Major Electives
Go deeper into your discipline by choosing electives that align with your personal and professional goals. These courses offer advanced knowledge and flexible focus areas.
Idea to Product
Idea to Product introduces students to the foundations of entrepreneurial thinking and product development. Through frameworks such as Design Thinking and Lean Canvas, students learn to identify problems, shape business concepts, and explore product-market fit. Real-world cases and intensive workshops guide students through the product lifecycle, equipping them with practical skills in business design, product strategy, and commercial acumen.
Go to Market Startegy
Go to Market offers a comprehensive introduction to launching products and services successfully. Students explore frameworks for market entry, including pricing, distribution, customer segmentation, and localization. The course integrates real-world case studies and planning exercises to help students build actionable GTM plans aligned with business objectives.
Finance for Entrepreneurs
Finance for Entrepreneurs delivers a hands-on approach to understanding startup finance. Students will learn to evaluate funding options, build credible financial models, and navigate the legal and structural aspects of fundraising. With real-world cases and market insights, the course prepares students to engage confidently with investors and financial stakeholders.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
In a world shaped by disruption and accelerated change, traditional models of success are no longer sufficient. Entrepreneurial Mindset equips students with the tools to thrive—building resilience, adaptability, and strategic foresight. Through experiential learning and deep reflection, students learn to challenge assumptions, transform adversity into opportunity, and lead with vision in uncertain environments.
Strategic Messaging for Startups
Effective messaging is central to gaining traction as an entrepreneur. In this course, students study how global brands and startups master the art of communication. From pitch decks to social media, students learn to tailor their messages for different audiences. The course culminates in the development and presentation of “Brand Briefs,” where students apply learned strategies to test and refine their own messaging.
Fundamentals of Product Management
The Fundamentals of Digital Product Management offers a clear and structured introduction to the field, blending academic insight with industry best practices. Students examine how successful companies manage digital products, while learning the terminology, tools, and mindsets required to contribute to cross-functional product teams. This course lays the groundwork for deeper study in the evolving discipline of product management.
Technical Product Management
This course has two parts: (1) building and launching a user-facing software product with a special emphasis on understanding user needs, and (2) applying data-driven product development techniques to iteratively improve the product. Students will learn how to transform an idea into software requirements through user research, prototyping, and usability tests, and then they will proceed to launch the MVP version of the product. The students will apply an iterative, data-driven approach to developing a product, integrate event analytics, and run controlled experiments.
Growth Hacking (Growth Strategies in Tech)
This course prepares students to lead growth initiatives in fast-moving tech ventures. Combining customer psychology, performance metrics, and agile strategy, students learn how to craft and execute high-impact growth plans. Case studies from top startups and scale-ups illustrate the challenges and opportunities of building and scaling customer-centric products.
International Business Law
This course offers a legal framework for understanding international commercial transactions. Through in-depth analysis of foundational agreements—such as NDAs, MOUs, joint ventures, and licensing contracts—students will gain fluency in legal vocabulary and contractual structures. The course culminates in an examination of how emerging technologies, including AI, are reshaping legal norms in global business. Particular attention is given to the role of law in enabling, constraining, and interpreting cross-border transactions.
Product Analytics Fundamentals
Product Analytics Fundamentals is a comprehensive course that covers the essential elements of analytics, including applied statistics, programming skills, AB-testing, visualization, and understanding data. This course is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in analytics so they can make data-driven decisions. Students will learn how to collect and analyze data using statistical methods, how to extract insights from data, how to conduct AB-testing to optimize product performance, and how to visualize data to communicate insights effectively.
Finance at a Glance
Designed for students from diverse backgrounds, this course demystifies finance by explaining its core functions and real-world relevance. Topics range from consumer finance and corporate transactions to monetary policy and financial markets. Students will gain a clear understanding of how finance shapes businesses, economies, and everyday decisions.
Doing Business in Asia
Doing Business in Asia offers an in-depth exploration of the dynamic and fast-evolving Asian market. The course covers economic trends, technological innovations, and the cultural nuances that are critical to establishing and growing a successful business in Asia. Students will learn to navigate the challenges of geopolitical tensions, regulatory landscapes, and market dynamics while identifying strategic opportunities in one of the world’s most diverse and promising regions.
Wealth Management Technology
Wealth Management Technology explores the evolution of savings and investment services through the lens of FinTech innovation. Students will examine emerging business models, digital advisory platforms, and the technologies reshaping wealth management. The course prepares students to navigate the shift from traditional banking to data-driven, client-centric investment solutions.
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Collaborative & Cross-disciplinary
Work with students from other fields to tackle real-world challenges from multiple angles. These electives are designed to stretch your thinking and build collaborative problem-solving skills.
Creative Writing, Storytelling, and Creative Performing
Creativity is the engine of the 21st century. The contemporary world is full of ideas, concepts, products, and people trying to find their way through this maze. Every start-up has to have not only the idea and (future) product but first of all the story to tell both to the potential investors as well as users, now and future, which brings us to the necessity of creativity and storytelling. Whatever you do, you have to have a story. Another intent of this course is bringing together people of different backgrounds and knowledge, to engage them in working towards a common goal in a new way – through writing a piece of fiction and performing it. Uniting those two fields gives students the possibility to try out their abilities in a safe environment as well as cooperate with other students, bringing in new viewpoints and experiences. This is one of the best ways of establishing teams that have innovation at their core.
Leadership
This course is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills to cultivate long-lasting leadership influence and make a meaningful impact, even in the face of change, crises, and criticism. While technical or "hard" skills may secure high-potential individuals top positions, this course focuses on the development of "real skills" that enable leaders to build, sustain, and thrive in their leadership roles. The course will empower future leaders with the transformative Three Pillars of Leadership: Awareness, Behavior, and Visibility to take their leadership to the next level.
English Business Communication
This course is a business English course for business people. It consists of authentic topics of great interest to everyone involved in or studying international business. The course reflects the latest trends in the business world. If you are into business, the course will greatly improve your ability to communicate in English in a wide range of situations. If you are a student of business, the course will develop the communication skills you need to succeed in a professional environment and will broaden your knowledge of the business world. Everybody studying this course will become more fluent and confident in using the language of business in a variety of contexts.
Building and Thriving in High-performing Teams (Hannes Chopra)
This course explores the dynamics of high-performing teams and the practical skills required to contribute to and sustain them. Students will engage with theories of collaboration, team formation, and leadership, while reflecting on their own roles within team environments. Case studies, group exercises, and peer feedback will support the development of strategies for effective teamwork across organizational contexts.
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Free Electives
Take courses outside your programme to broaden your perspective. As long as you meet the technical requirements and there's space, you're welcome to explore new topics and expand your toolkit.
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