Successful ventures rarely begin with a business plan. They begin with an opportunity. In this course from the University of Maryland, you'll learn how entrepreneurs identify opportunities, evaluate uncertainty, analyze industries, understand customer needs, and create value through innovation. Whether you're interested in launching a startup, developing a new product, driving innovation within an existing organization, or exploring new venture opportunities, this course provides practical frameworks for evaluating ideas before investing significant time and resources. You'll learn how to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities, assess risk and uncertainty, evaluate market and industry conditions, identify customer needs, and develop strategies for creating competitive advantage. Throughout the course, you'll have the opportunity to apply what you learn to a real idea, challenge, or opportunity through a series of optional Opportunity Assessment activities. By the end of the course, you'll have developed a structured approach for evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities and making more informed innovation and venture decisions.
DX
Teaching was made easy with real life illustrations. It made it easy to understand the course. I had a good time learning this first course.
NR
Great course! I learned so much about what an entrepreneur is all about. I highly recommend this course if you are planning to start your own business.
DB
It is very flexible. The course helps to gather more information and teaches the actual proceedings of how the industry in working at present. The exams and assignments were fun to do too!
MG
I am keep learning new things .So this will helped me a lot to developed a new things and now I am able to take first step to entrepreneurship. Thanks for the team
D
thank you very much i did enjoy a lot the all program was relevant to the current situation of the economy i am really great-full for your courses its time for me to do it in practical
SV
Sir john green has simplified the course so much that even someone who doesn't have any background in entrepreneurship can understand it.Looking forward to learn more from him.
DG
Good Content, and a lot of knowledge its highly recommended to read the opportunity analysis canvas book before watching the videos. the Audio in many Videos is mono not stereo
JM
This is really an Interesting Course which improves and explore our Business ideas for startups and Business startegy and Innovation on the Global market
JJ
Good one with superficial details. I recommend one example for the entire opportunity analysis so that it helps to solve some doubts while we are making the opportunity analysis for our company.
HW
This class gets your mind going. I am new to this area of learning and this class helped lay a foundation for becoming an innovator.
KK
Happy with the content , the course is very well structured for understanding and we also get to set away forward based on our convenience.
KM
This was an excellent intro to entrepreneurship. It isn't just an intro, it gets you into what is means to be an entrepreneur, and how to do it. Really great, thank you.
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It is very flexible. The course helps to gather more information and teaches the actual proceedings of how the industry in working at present. The exams and assignments were fun to do too!
My experience was very good, thank you for designing this course and I hope to put everything I learn into practice in my special coffee project.
This is the most enlightening course I've taken since graduating from Ashford University four years ago. I've been looking for the right place to continue my graduate work and if the next 3 courses in this specialization are nearly as good as Dr. Green's First Step in Entrepreneurship, I'll be magnetized to UofMaryland's Technology Entrepreneurship Masters Degree!
I know nothing about entrepreneurship and after this course I was capable to analyse critically a venture. I learned about risk assessment, competition, customer needs identification and business planning.
I loved the course, very rich of real cases facilitating the understanding
very insightful...lots of examples and sample cases...totally enjoyed it.
They push the University of Maryland way too much, the book and the videos have much of the same content. The book that you buy is written by the professor who runs the course which I do not agree with. The book could be more direct in how it gives you the lessons.
Total waste of time. too superfluous and always try to sell you a book.
An entrepreneur doesn't have time to lost. Please remove this course.
I recommend this course, Extremely knowledgeable, in the beginning i thought it will be just a another book of bore-dome but it covers all the topics and questions in well manner, in every step it proved me wrong and i didn't get up from this course until i had completed it. I am very thank full to "coursera" and Dr, James for this effort.
A very extensive course that gives you the right framework and right mindset in developing innovative ideas for new companies. A must for someone who is a learner who has a vision for the future. I highly recommend this course for everyone planning to build
Thanks for providing this exceptional material, which clarifies and inspires people to launch their dreams into realities. Never is easy, but having this lectures as a tools to achieve them is great.
Good one with superficial details. I recommend one example for the entire opportunity analysis so that it helps to solve some doubts while we are making the opportunity analysis for our company.
thank you very much i did enjoy a lot the all program was relevant to the current situation of the economy i am really great-full for your courses its time for me to do it in practical
Sir john green has simplified the course so much that even someone who doesn't have any background in entrepreneurship can understand it.
Looking forward to learn more from him.
This course gives a spiritual strength to the entrepreneurs by providing the utmost information required to start a business as an entrepreneur.
This is very nice course for the people who wants to start their own startup. This course really helps to make different types of decisions.
Was a very well organized module. Was really more informative than even a few accelerator programs I've been in.
Excellent.....extremely educative with videos and presentations on how a business has to perform.
Amazingly insightful course, especially for beginners like me.
Great professor. Learned so much!