7 of the Best Free Online Business Classes for Aspiring Entrepreneurs By Je Haden
• How to pitch and sell to customers Time involved: Six weeks, approximately one to three hours per week.
How to Start a Startup Stanford (Sam Altman) (http://startupclass.samaltman.com)
More a series of videos than a class, "How to Start a Startup" covers a wide range of topics-and includes startup founders like Reid Ho man (LinkedIn), Emmett Shear (Just.tv and Twitch), Marc Andreessen (Netscape), Aaron Levie (Box), and Paul Graham (Y Combinator.) What will you learn? • How to build a team • How to build a product and talk to users • How to raise money • How to build a great culture • How to build services that scale • How to manage, operate, and be a great founder Time involved: 20 videos, approximately 50 minutes each.
Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans Sloan School of Management (MIT) (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-
Want to start a business but don't know where s21-nuts-and-bolts-of-business-plans-january-iap-2014) Maybe you won't need a business plan--plenty of to start? A little education can go a long way, people argue you don't. Or that your business plan especially when it's free. Here are seven great online classes for aspiring will start changing the first week. Even so, understanding the basics of a business entrepreneurs--from some of the top business schools in the country (United States of America). plan will definitely help bring focus to your idea and your first steps--so what better than the course Becoming an Entrepreneur that has been taken by every MIT MBA student for Massachusetts Institute of Technology over two decades? (www.edx.org/course/becoming-an-entrepreneur?source=a What will you learn? w&awc=6798_1595420600_33f03b14bdcda2cb6befb0740e5 818af&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate_partner&utm_ • How to refine and present your idea • How to create marketing and sales plans content=text-link&utm_term=78888_Skimlinks) • How to choose the right business model What will you learn? • How to develop financial projections • How to overcome the most common myths of • How to plan for legal, accounting, copyright, entrepreneurship etc. issues • How to define your goals as an entrepreneur • How to execute your plan and a startup Time involved: Six videos of approximately • How to identify business opportunities an hour each, plus extensive lecture notes and • How to conduct market research and choose supplemental material (if you want more). your target customer • How to design and test your o ering Launching Your Startup
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