This course is part of the Startup Entrepreneurship Specialization

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"Action-Driven Business Plan: From the ‘Classroom’ to the World" is a capstone project, that requires you, our learner, to pull together all you will have learned in the three courses that comprise the "Startup Entrepreneurship" Specialization. This course is in fact the culmination of the process designed to provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate what you have learned on a real-world project of your choice.
During the following six weeks you will gradually create, improve and refine your business plan, moving from one milestone to another. Each week will begin with a short note from Prof. Maital, explaining what the current phase is about and providing you with points to consider while working on the assignments.  We encourage you to practice what you have learned using the self-assessment practice quizzes and brainstorm with your peers in the weekly forums.

During the first week you will create a non-business plan as an initial step towards creating your business plan. In weeks two, three and five, you will be required to submit three assignments for peer evaluation, which will help you to prepare your final business plan. At the end of the course you will prepare and submit your completed business plan and an effective two-minute video describing your idea. Your business plan will include the following sections:  The Need, the Product, Unique Features, The Market and Future Developments, a Gantt chart and a project budget.

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English

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Prof. (Emeritus) Shlomo Maital

Prof. Shlomo Maital Sr. Research Fellow, S. Neaman Institute, Technion

Industrial Engineering

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Welcome & Make a Plan

2 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 12 min), 4 readings, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

2 hours to complete

Zoom Out

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Zoom In

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Shape the Business Design - part 1

1 hour to complete

1 video (Total 1 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

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Excellent course. I wish there were more participants!

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About the Startup Entrepreneurship Specialization

The Startup Entrepreneurship specialization focuses on issues of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. It leads the students through the entire process of creating a start-up from an idea.

Part One deals with ideas, and the creative imagination: discovering new ideas, new products, new services, new and better ways to do almost anything. Part Two focuses on how to build a business (entrepreneurship). This course guides the learner through a series of tools and methods that help take an idea and make it happen, in a way that can sustain the business or organization that delivers it to humanity. Use this course to build a solid business or organization around the idea you developed during Part One. Part Three offers Innovation Career Lessons from a Master of proven achievements. During this course you will follow conversations and interviews with Dadi Perlmutter, who until recently was Executive VP of Intel Corporate, the highest ranking Israeli executive of any multinational company.

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