MOOC: Launching New Ventures
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Develop your promising idea into a successful business concept proposal, and launch it! Gain practical experience in the key steps of the venture creation process, including marketing and fundraising. Sharpen your entrepreneurial mindset!
Launching New Ventures is a course on Entrepreneurship & Strategy for Technology-Driven Startups designed for professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who are interested in learning more about how to successfully launch their venture idea. Through short, animated lectures, inspiring interviews with entrepreneurs from Africa and around the world, short quizzes, and a practical final project, students will gain a broad overview of entrepreneurship strategy with insights they can apply to their venture regardless of location, industry or venture stage.
Students will be required to complete quizzes, and develop and submit venture ideas as part of the course’s assessment. Eligible top performing students will earn a chance to receive seed-funding for their venture concept. Course material has been developed from practical experience and proven insights gained from cutting-edge entrepreneurship research.
- Learn how to develop your ideas into a venture concept
- Learn how to craft an opportunity exploitation road-map
- Use social media to test market receptiveness to your venture idea and raise money
- Learn how to calculate how much money you need, where to find it and how to manage it
- Learn how to grow your venture (intelligently!)
- Experience the early stages of the entrepreneurial process
- Sharpen your entrepreneurial mindset and learn how it can benefit your organization
In addition to the lectures, quizzes, and forum on Coursera, we encourage you to join the conversation on our course Twitter and Facebook pages. You'll find relevant, interesting links to additional resources, and these are great channels for engaging with other students, the professors, and the Venture MOOC Team.
Starting May 25th: Sign up for this course.