Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial opportunity. Topics include: how creativity, opportunity and feasibility are best evaluated; business strategies for new businesses; importance of a business plan; achieving success in a new business. At the end of the course students will have the skills and confidence to evaluate starting a business, in addition to becoming more enterprising in how they approach their roles should they decide to work in organizations. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Learn about the many faces of and contexts for entrepreneurship 2. Learn about the entrepreneurial process and how to manage it 3. Learn about what it takes to be an entrepreneur and your own potential to be one 4. Learn to recognize opportunities to generate and assess your own business idea 5. Explain the business planning process 6. Apply entrepreneurial approaches, concepts and methods to your own business idea 7. Learn about the operational issues in developing new business ventures
This course is part of the Career Success Specialization
Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action
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Learner Career Outcomes
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What you will learn
Apply entrepreneurial approaches, concepts, and methods
Describe the entrepreneurial process and how to manage it
Recognize opportunities to develop new business ideas
Understand operational challenges involved with creating new business ventures
Skills you will gain
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
Feasibility Studies
Skills and Strategies
Starting a Business
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I really enjoyed this class. It has given me serious motivation to start my own company. I liked being able to see an overview of the steps I need to take to start my business off on the right foot.
Course is a great introduction to knowing the mechanics of Entrepreneurship. This course would only be a foundation and first step. Take this course to remember the essentials and build over it.
Instructor
David Standen, MBA
Instructor, University of California, Irvine ExtensionAbout University of California, Irvine
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