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.
This course is part of the Career Success Specialization
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About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Describe the entrepreneurial process and how to manage it
Recognize opportunities to develop new business ideas
Apply entrepreneurial approaches, concepts, and methods
Understand operational challenges involved with creating new business ventures
Skills you will gain
- Strategic Management
- Management
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
Feasibility Studies
Skills and Strategies
Starting a Business
Reviews
- 5 stars71.92%
- 4 stars20.61%
- 3 stars5.68%
- 2 stars0.98%
- 1 star0.80%
TOP REVIEWS FROM ESSENTIALS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THINKING & ACTION
It is very important to know an entrepreneur, what to do before starting a business and this course will help them much better to perform in the future.
I enjoyed learning all the basic one needs to be guided by when starting your own business. It was indeed a privilege to be able to do this course.
The teacher explained the topic in brief manner. It kept the interest in the course. Definitely it will help all those who learn it and pass it on as well.
very well informative and organised course for beginners or non business students. I think a little more topics add on to it makes this course perfect
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