Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial opportunity. Topics include: how creativity, opportunity and feasibility are best evaluated; business strategies for new businesses; importance of a business plan; achieving success in a new business. At the end of the course students will have the skills and confidence to evaluate starting a business, in addition to becoming more enterprising in how they approach their roles should they decide to work in organizations.
Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action
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Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action
This course is part of Career Success Specialization
Instructor: David Standen, MBA
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What you'll learn
Describe the entrepreneurial process and how to manage it
Recognize opportunities to develop new business ideas
Apply entrepreneurial approaches, concepts, and methods
Understand operational challenges involved with creating new business ventures
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“The course is really informative & helps me alot to understand my strengths and weaknesses as well as development needs. I am thoroughly enjoying it while learning.
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Reviewed on May 7, 2020
The teacher explained the topic in brief manner. It kept the interest in the course. Definitely it will help all those who learn it and pass it on as well.
KR
Reviewed on Apr 13, 2020
Very useful course to those who teaches entrepreneurship subject and those who take intiation to start business before what are the important inputs to analye the person
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