About Coach

Edward “Coach” Weinhaus, Esq. has taught entrepreneurship at five major American universities at both the graduate and undergraduate level. He has founded some of the most enigmatic startups in the early part of this millenium, three of which have found their way to the pages of the Wall Street Journal since 2020. Throughout his career, he has also worked for some of the largest companies in the world (AEP and UBS) as well as beating the nation’s top law firms in litigation. Coach has earned five degrees from the London School of Economics, the University of Chicago, and Washington University in St. Louis. He is a licensed attorney as well in three states and represents plaintiffs in employment litigation as a side practice, congruent with his strong advocacy for fellow team members in the entrepreneurial setting. 

Coach’s main academic claim to fame has little to do with his doctoral research. Rather, it’s the student protest (Don’t Poach Coach Protest) when UCLA sought to change instructor for the highly successful entrepreneurship Capstone course as part of its competitive undergraduate minor in entrepreneurship. The “Don’t Poach Coach” Protest, led by student body president Naomi Hammonds, is the only recorded march on the Dean of UCLA’s Anderson office on behalf of faculty in the school’s history.

What were the students marching about? Coach’s mentoring and leadership as they were about to enter the working world. Coach is the only faculty member to have taught the course since its founding, and had achieved remarkable reviews (Mgmt 169 Evaluation), as he had in its less rigorous predecessor (Mgmt 195 Evaluation).

UCLA’s “own goal” has been other schools’ gain, allowing Coach to create C4fe, which had started as a project for his students to “examine” in a Social Entrepreneurship course (Our Story).

Now, Coach mentors cohorts of member schools to teach them the same course curriculum that UCLA students had fought so hard to keep.

But it’s his ability to get the most out of interns and managers alike that turns students into leaders.