This course will explore the earlier stages of the entrepreneurial venture process across four modules. The modules will examine the nature of growth and error in entrepreneurial settings and how to manage resources in those settings. In addition, the modules will explore the emergence of entrepreneurial opportunities, the formulation of ideas in relation to those opportunities, and how those opportunities and ideas influence entrepreneurial phenomena. Finally, the course will focus on how business concepts underlie compelling entrepreneurial missions that provide guidance to the evolution of a venture’s business model and future strategic planning. You will be able to: - Develop a foundational understanding of the entrepreneurial process - Consider the relationship between growth and error - Understand how particular opportunities influence entrepreneurial phenomena This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.
SS
A lot new ideas and business technique learnt from this course. This course will help me to go ahead in the business.
CD
Very usefully course with great combination of theory and practice. Assignment is well lay-out for thought process.
DD
Great course provides insights on finding the product market fit and capture the appropriate market depending on the nature of the startup.
DR
The course material is excellent and relevant to the times. The interviews with former students and entrepreneurs provides a real world view of the application of the knowledge disseminated in course.
ZK
Felt the the material covered a great range of information. Would highly recommend reading the suggested books as well. Some very great insights are in each.
OB
The course materials are very much engaging and practical, I like it very much. It'll help me a lot with my new business.
PT
The course is great to me. Useful knowledge with practice case study from real companies under a comprehensive instruction of Mr. Tom Parkinson. Highly recommend!
MD
Thank you very much for giving me an opportunity for participating the course Entrepreneurship I laying the foundation.
IL
Highly recommended course for those Entrep-spirited people...very knowledgeable...high credits to our Professor/Discussant...God bless and more power!
SG
Excellent course, informational, hands on and a perfect glimpse into what an entrepreneur is up against. Also, a superb teacher with great insights.
BA
I had an amazing experience. I learnt that in order to call your startup a business you need a paying customer.
TL
it was best on line learning and my time dint go wasted.. its really informative, interesting moreover you learn alots.. thank you very much.. ILLINOUS
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Felt the the material covered a great range of information. Would highly recommend reading the suggested books as well. Some very great insights are in each.
I am too much impressed to get such a International course in online platform. Thank you so much my Prof. Mr. Parkinson and my classmates to help me to complete this course successfully.
This course is very practical and packed with the essential details to help everyone be a results oriented entrepreneur. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn this new skills.
The course material is excellent and relevant to the times. The interviews with former students and entrepreneurs provides a real world view of the application of the knowledge disseminated in course.
This is not the course I was expecting. There is lack of content. Very short videos, not many real life examples. Interview with entrepreneurs are nice but it seems like an advertisement. This course seems more like data collection of your ideas and help other entrepreneurs.
Course 5 (Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation) of the Innovation: Creativity to Entrepreneurship is insightful and provides immense knowledge on the several layers of considerations entrepreneurs need to analyse before putting their plan and strategy into action. Kudos to Professor Tom Parkinson for this wonderful course!
This course does give you an insight of what it takes to be an entrepreneur and honestly, some might think that it is hard but if you get to know or have proper knowledge of the concepts or practicalities. You would definitely want to be an entrepreneur.
the course had really good content and relevant materials. Took this course to understand more about the world of entrepreneurship such as all the different processes, expectations and even jargons. great foundation course.
Very good course. Wish I did this before starting my company 10 years ago. I advise entrepreneurs to do this course and the next Entrepreneurship II course as well. In fact, the entire specialization will be very useful.
I love this one it opens me up something i never been experience and trying to interview people that i dont know and im surprise that i did and i evolve because of what i learn from here.
amaazzzing
the only problem is with the Peer-graded assignments because of the time constraints. you really need to change that
Very usefully course with great combination of theory and practice. Assignment is well lay-out for thought process.
The course is excellent and very interesting to learn new concepts which is very insightful for students.
Great course! I'm starting my own venture and this has been a huge help on what I need to do.
Awesome content, it really help you to put track ideas properly.
Pretty helpful and not to hard so far. Thanks
It was a wonderful experience learning from Thomas E. Parkinson. He explains things so vividly that one can learn fast without any difficulty. The types of assignments given were very useful for clearing the concepts.
This course was awesome. Course co-coordinator was fantastic. I had no knowledge about Entrepreneurship before. I have learned many things from this course. Now i have the basic knowledge of Entrepreneurship.
it was best on line learning and my time dint go wasted.. its really informative, interesting moreover you learn alots.. thank you very much.. ILLINOUS
Great course provides insights on finding the product market fit and capture the appropriate market depending on the nature of the startup.