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UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

How to Validate your Startup Idea

UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

About this Course

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Starting a new business begins with an idea that needs to evolve through experimentation, iteration and interactions with people. This course is for existing and potential entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance and support to make their ‘great idea’ a reality. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of entrepreneurship, this course guides you through the process of actively validating your idea in the market. We encourage you to identify and communicate good opportunities and to create and capture value from these opportunities. By working through the course and completing the activities you’ll learn how to get feedback that systematically tests different parts of your business idea. You will learn how to do this through interacting with potential customers, suppliers, partners and investors outside the course. Along the way, you will also become more confident in pitching your idea. By the end of the course you should have a validated business idea that you can start right away.

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Approx. 20 hours to complete

English

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Skills you will gain

Lean Startup
Value Proposition
Investment
Entrepreneurship

Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

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100% online

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Coursera Labs

Includes hands on learning projects.

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Approx. 20 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

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Allya Koesoema

Martin Bliemel

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UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)

UNSW Sydney, based in Sydney Australia, was established in 1949 and is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching universities with more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries. UNSW Sydney aspires to provide students with an outstanding educational experience, which both reflects our strong traditions of excellence, innovation and social justice, and builds on our strengths in scientific, technological and professional disciplines.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

7 hours to complete

How can you learn entrepreneurship?

7 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 6 min), 4 readings, 6 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

How is your idea valuable?

This week you'll learn to articulate and test your value proposition by drawing on three concepts: the strategy canvas, persona and minimum viable product (MVP). The strategy canvas emphasizes the uniqueness of your value proposition. The 'persona' represents who you think your typical customer is, which is useful for identifying real customers. The MVP is a simple prototype, which is a key tool to to get feedback from potential customers about the value you are providing them.

3 hours to complete

1 video (Total 5 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

How will you reach more customers?

3 hours to complete

1 video (Total 3 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

How profitable is your idea?

3 hours to complete

1 video (Total 3 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM HOW TO VALIDATE YOUR STARTUP IDEA

by GLAug 31, 2019

Great course, a complicated subject made simple through great material.

by RHJan 21, 2017

I am loving it so far.

My only concerns are about the platform, would love to have a help chat or somebody who I can talk to.

by RBAug 27, 2020

Thanks to Allya and Martin! This is one of the best and most inspiring courses I've ever done. Such a worthwhile course!

by AAMay 5, 2020

very good and interesting communication and illustration to be an entrepreneur

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