The Entrepreneur's Guide for beginners and is a course created in collaboration with all Catalan public universities and EIT Health and aims to be the starting point for all those who want to improve their knowledge and skills in the world entrepreneurship. In this course you will be able to identify a business opportunity, develop the business model (and the steps to validate it) and know the main mechanisms to find your business. In addition, you will have the help of experts who will be there to help you resolve any questions that may arise during the course. Sign up!
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Beginner Level
Approx. 6 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English, Catalan, Spanish
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Beginner Level
Approx. 6 hours to complete
English
Subtitles: English, Catalan, Spanish
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Universitat de Barcelona
The University of Barcelona is the most formidable public institution of higher education in Catalonia, catering to the needs of the greatest number of students and delivering the broadest and most comprehensive offering in higher educational courses. The UB is also the principal centre of university research in Spain and has become a European benchmark for research activity, both in terms of the number of research programmes it conducts and the excellence these have achieved.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
1 hour to complete
Entrepreneurship: an overview
1 hour to complete
6 videos (Total 44 min)
6 videos
Welcome1m
1.1 General concepts9m
1.2 Creative process6m
1.3 An entrepreneur, an idea8m
1.4 Teams9m
1.5 First financing6m
1 practice exercise
Entrepreneurship: an overview16m
1 hour to complete
Business Model Canvas
1 hour to complete
5 videos (Total 36 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz
5 videos
2.2 Customers and Value Proposition6m
2.3 Channels, Revenue Streams and Customer Relationships8m
2.4 Key Resources, Key Activities, Key Partners, Cost Structure9m
2.5 Value Proposition6m
1 reading
Business Model Canvas: a tool for organizational planning15m
1 practice exercise
Business Model Canvas30m
1 hour to complete
Business Model Validation: Lean Startup
1 hour to complete
5 videos (Total 23 min)
5 videos
3.2 Lean Startup4m
3.3 Metrics4m
3.4 Customer Validation4m
3.5 Minimum Viable Product and early adopters4m
1 practice exercise
Business Model Validation: Lean Startup30m
2 hours to complete
Business Plan
2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 66 min)
8 videos
4.2 Executive Summary, Strategic Plan and SWOT7m
4.3 Marketing Plan10m
4.4 Organisational Plan7m
4.5 Production Plan8m
4.6 Economic Plan I7m
4.7 Economic Plan II9m
4.8 Legal Plan6m
1 practice exercise
Business Plan30m
Reviews
TOP REVIEWS FROM THE ENTREPRENEUR'S GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS
by FMAug 30, 2020
A very important course that equips entrepreneurs with useful and relevant skills on how to invest wisely special thanks to Universitat de Barcelona for offering this course.
by PFJul 3, 2020
Very concise! An invaluable resource refering back to the professors who presented it, to put an idea into practice. Some transcripts are missing.
by RSep 3, 2020
Make sure that written part of all course is available so that foreign students can easily understand through reading written part.
by FOAug 8, 2020
Very interesting course for beginners in business. Great way to start venturing. Thanks
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