What’s Your Big Idea?

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Professor Buck Goldstein +1 more instructor

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

What’s Your Big Idea?

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

About this Course

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Whether your interest lies in solving the world’s biggest problems, creating the next commercial success or addressing something closer to home, this course will give you a toolbox to vet your ideas and test them in the real world.

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Approx. 11 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

Instructors

Instructor rating

4.85/5 (7 Ratings)

Professor Buck Goldstein

University Entrepreneur in Residence and Professor of the Practice

Economics

16,174 Learners

1 Course

Dr. Holden Thorp, PhD

Provost and Professor of Chemistry and Medicine

Chemistry

16,174 Learners

1 Course

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Approx. 11 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish

Offered by

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is known around the world for innovative teaching and research. Regularly ranked as the nation’s best value for academic quality, UNC has produced the most Rhodes Scholars for the past 25 years among U.S. public research universities.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Think

We start at the beginning with your big idea and where it comes from: your everyday experience

2 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 57 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Listen

This second phase of the entrepreneurial lifecycle encourages you to take the big idea you’ve

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 69 min)

11 videos

Listen to Your Customers4m

The Importance of the Listening Phase 7m

The Purpose of a Business2m

Setting Up Customer Meetings5m

Running Customer Meetings3m

Your Total Product 6m

Listening to Suppliers7m

Conclusion4m

Jud Bowman: Cold-calling and Listening for a Customer's Problem1m

Desh Deshpande: Talking to Customers6m

6 videos (Total 21 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

1 hour to complete

Reverse Pitches (Optional)

In these optional videos, experts from UNC Chapel Hill and Washington University in St. Louis offered

1 hour to complete

9 videos (Total 78 min), 1 reading

9 videos

Mark Katz: Pitching Challenges in the Arts8m

Alice Ammerman: Pitching Challenges in Food Systems19m

Jim Johnson: Pitching Aging & Demographic Changes 12m

Matthew Rascoff: Pitching Problems in Higher Education6m

Steve Malik: Pitching Problems in Healthcare13m

Nancy Morrow Howell: Pitching Changes in Employment with Aging4m

Michael Sherraden: Pitching Universal Identification4m

Jeff Gordon: Pitching Problems in Childhood Undernutrition3m

Marcus Raichle: Challenges in Brain Development4m

1 reading

Reverse Pitch Guest Bios10m

Reviews

4.6

37 reviews

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3 stars
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2 stars
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TOP REVIEWS FROM WHAT’S YOUR BIG IDEA?

by ARAug 13, 2015

Definitely helpful. Highlights the most important points very quickly and succinctly. Would have wanted a little more detail and examples which is why I withhold the 5th star.

by TDSep 10, 2016

Great online course, really learned some new technics - others got refreshed. Looking forward to start my own venture using this course as the first buildingstone.

by PGApr 10, 2018

Very practical course with clear information to go from the idea to the launch of the business or project. Thanks for all that you gave us, it was very useful.

by AAOct 12, 2015

Good course, the ideas are organized , some many real example have been explained. I recommend this course for all people who have ideas in their minds.

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