This course builds on previous concepts and outlines strategies and tactics for forming, financing, and launching a new venture. Topics to be addressed will include building the new venture’s initial management team, identifying and reaching out to early customers, developing financial plans, raising startup and initial growth financing, and preparing for and managing rapid growth.
Entrepreneurship II: Preparing for Launch
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Entrepreneurship II: Preparing for Launch
This course is part of Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship Specialization
Instructor: Thomas E. Parkinson
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What you'll learn
Design a go-to-market strategy to approach initial customers.
Develop financial projections for the new venture.
Develop a plan for raising equity capital for the new venture.
Operate and monitor the new venture’s health and scalability.
Skills you'll gain
- Customer Acquisition Management
- New Product Development
- Business Development
- Financial Planning
- Entrepreneurship
- Presentations
- Business Strategy
- Business Metrics
- Financial Modeling
- Business Planning
- Go To Market Strategy
- Financial Forecasting
- Fundraising and Crowdsourcing
- Growth Strategies
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Team Management
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the Innovation: From Creativity to Entrepreneurship Specialization
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This course is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹
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SV
Reviewed on Jul 16, 2020
If you have any aspirations to work as an entrepreneur and you have not done this course - you are wasting your own time!
KD
Reviewed on Apr 19, 2018
i am more than honored to have studied this course, the material is very well done and the lecturer is the best that i seen so far.... love from uganda
KJ
Reviewed on Nov 22, 2020
Good course, gives you things to think about as you build your own business. I just do not like peer reviews where I need to download random files from other students to my computer
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