I'm taking that course. It's actually a quite nice coverage of today's online tools and methods.
Unfortunately, it's completely contaminated by what I call the "Stanford School of Startups": Make it all software, grow exponentially fast (they insist on a metric of percent/week), never make a profit, but have an "exit strategy": who will buy you out because they are afraid of you, are afraid of some competitor acquiring you, etc. Ironically, the professor is currently a founding principal at a biomedical HARDWARE startup, but he's completely drunk the Koolaid.
You should expect to see a lot of these in the coming weeks. The main course project is to build a Selfstarter site for a product, and try to raise as much Bitcoin as one can from ones classmates.
I decided early on that I wouldn't take it 'for credit', because I wasn't interested in this approach, but it covered so many technologies/services that I'd never gotten around to learning that I stayed in, just to get the lectures -- which unfortunately the professor doesn't consider very important. They were often posted up to 4 weeks behind the initial syllabus (and homework deadlines) and halfway through he seems to have completely given up on lectures altogether, figuring we'd just read the notes (which were informative when finally posted, with good practical exercises -- but if I wanted to learn that way, I'd have learned it from the web long ago)
All that notwithstanding, I WOULD recommend that course, now that he's finally written the lecture notes [well, we're still waiting for the last set] and recorded some lectures. It was valuable
BTW, completely avoid James Green's entrepreneur course out of UMD. It was dreadful (the only MOOC out of the 30+ that I've taken that I'd call dreadful). I wrote him detailed notes on how to improve it, but even then, it would only be decent. Try Steve Blank's Udacity course instead. It's very clear, very good, and coincidentally elucidates the principles of this week's Amp Hour guest