I took it. It was pretty good, I learned a lot from all the lectures and exercises, etc., but a lot of it is group work. Unless you go into it with a team of people you know beforehand and actually have the time to put into it every week, you might not find the experience that great. I was put into a team of other people from my country and we had probably around 10 team members at the start and that dropped to 2 by the end.

Also, in a class like this you really need that feedback from experienced people like professors, but the majority on feedback is just handled by other people in the class. We never got any professor feedback on our final demo and weren't invited to the demo day, so felt a bit left out by the end, even though we thought our idea and presentation was a lot better than some of the other teams.

E145 is ok. I took it in person at Stanford. I think if you have no clue about the ins and outs of tech, it can be a nice starting point. My other recommendation would to just read venture deals and check out jake blakemaster's cs183 essays. I sat in that class and it was phenomenal.