Terrible experience. The course is all AI bullshit and they expect you to interview 100 people during the course, as well as bi-weekly presentations, during a whole semester. The evaluation is completely arbitrary and depends if professor Luis Caldas (who is terrible btw) likes your idea or not. I would not recommend taking this course at all, and I only took it because it is mandatory for MEEC students. It is the most bullshit and nonsense course I have ever taken.

Cadeira mal organizada onde os professore demonstram não saber como as coisas funcionam no mundo real.

Cadeira semestral, no meu caso, o professor das práticas gostou do projeto durante todo o semestre e depois fez umas perguntas para "entalar" na apresentação final, à frente de todos. Não é preciso dedicar muito tempo à cadeira a nível de estudo, mas convém não deixar tudo para a última. É mais importante focar na parte de business do que na parte de engineering

A prototype goes a long way to make the work better

The goal of this course is to give a "step-by-step how to build your startup." I'll start by saying that I don't want to build a startup, so you know how biased I am in this review.

I think the theoretical lessons were really boring, but the good news is: you don't need to go to any of them. I skipped 50% of them during the semester, and it was completely okay just reading the slides by myself. If I were to do the course again, I would skip 90% of the theoretical classes :p. The professor is good however, the contents of the classes, at least for me, had no interest at all.

For the problem...

General Thoughts

I'm going to start out by just straight saying that if you don't plan to create your own company, I think you're not going to like this course.
This course teaches you how to create your product and how to iterate it according to the market needs, by going outside and talking to people. This is a good exercise for someone who may want to create his own company in the future.
With that said, the amount of work the teachers expect you to put in is insane, specially taking into account you also have other courses parallelly, but I'll talk more about that later in the...