📊Startup School Y Combinator via Independent

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌10 weeks
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

We believe the barrier to entry for people to start a startup is still too high.

Startup School is a free 8-week massively open online course (MOOC).

Got a startup?

For founders actively pursuing your own startup, we welcome you to participate in the course.

📣Taught by Eric Migicovsky and Kyle Corbitt

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🕯How to Start a Startup

Stanford University and Y Combinator via Independent

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

🖥 Overview

CS183B is a class we’re teaching at Stanford. It’s designed to be a sort of one-class business course for people who want to start startups.

Videos of the lectures, associated reading materials, and assignments will all be available here. There will be 20 videos, some with a speaker or two and some with a small panel. It’ll be 1,000 minutes of content if you watch it all.

We’ll cover how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more.

📣Taught by Sam Altman

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✔️How to finance and develop your startup - without venture capital

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

This course will introduce you to five models for financing your business which have been used successfully by business superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson. These models are rarely discussed but will be explained through real stories of creative entrepreneurs in interviews with founders, investors, and others.

📣Taught by John Mullins

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✔️Becoming an Entrepreneur

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

Curious about entrepreneurship, but not sure where to start? Becoming an Entrepreneur is designed in partnership with MIT to guide people of all ages and backgrounds through the process of founding a company. With enrollment in the hundreds of thousands, this course is as engaging and accessible as it is informative.

Becoming an Entrepreneur will provide you with inspiration to explore an entrepreneurial path and tools to overcome the initial challenges of building a business.

📣Taught by Laurie Stach

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✔️New Enterprises

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

This course covers the process of identifying and quantifying market opportunities, then conceptualizing, planning, and starting a new, technology-based enterprise. Students develop detailed business plans for a startup. It is intended for students who want to start their own business, further develop an existing business, be a member of a management team in a new enterprise, or better understand the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial process.

📣Taught by
William Aulet
Howard Anderson
Prof. Matt Marx

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✔️Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

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.

📣University of California, Irvine via Coursera Help

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✔️ Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But there are other models to support new businesses. In transitioning markets (where entrepreneurs do not have much access to private sector financing), government officials, donors, and business leaders are experimenting with creative approaches to support the growth of entrepreneurs.

📣Taught by Michael Goldberg

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✔️ Technology Entrepreneurship: Lab to Market

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

In this introductory course, developed in collaboration with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard and the University of California San Diego, you’ll explore how entrepreneurs match promising technology with customer needs to launch successful new businesses. Using real-world examples, you’ll apply critical thinking to commercialize technologies, and you’ll learn about the venture creation process from founders, funders, and industry experts.

📣Taught by Karim Lakhani and Vish Krishnan

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✔️Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical components of creating a start-up, Entrepreneurship 2: Launching the Start-up, provides practical, real-world knowledge about the lean approach, the minimum viable product, when to pivot, when to quit your day job, the art of the pitch, building and managing a team, allocating equity, and building your external team, advisory board members, professional services, and entrepreneurial strategy.

📣Taught by David Bell, Ethan Mollick, Laura Huang

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✔️Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses pt.1

📌Free Online Course
📌English
📌On-Demand

⌛Overview

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, focuses on challenges faced by existing private businesses when they attempt to grow substantially.

📣Taught by Edward D. Hess

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