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Entrepreneurship: How To Start A Business From An Idea by Udemy
Business and entrepreneurship fundamentals! Strategies to turn your startup or business idea into a successful business
Course Highlights
- A-Z roadmap of steps to start a business, gain independence and enjoy the freedom of being your own boss!
- NEW: interactive class project to practice entrepreneurship by starting a business together
- Gain confidence and become decisive about the ideal way to proceed with your business
- Expert help and advice from the instructor in 1-to-1 office hours calls and course discussions. 99% of questions are answered within 24 hours.
- More than 10 practical ways to raise funds for your business
- Alleviate the stress you are experiencing from struggling in business
- Identify highly profitable business niches, develop new business ideas, and continuously improve them to increase your profits
- Write a business plan with winning strategies that prepare your business for growth
- Avoid costly mistakes made by most first-time entrepreneurs, and save precious time and money
- Learn when and how to protect your intellectual property
- Increase your confidence and decisiveness when making crucial business decisions
- Begin your entrepreneurship journey with proper guidance and caring support!
- New and interactive course project where you get to build a business and put your entrepreneurship skills to work
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
7 Topics
How this entrepreneurship course is structured; and the steps for your business
How to get the most out of the best Udemy features
and how to troubleshoot
Correct entrepreneurship mindset to take on and conquer obstacles
Students introductions and rewards - spread the word about your business
Biology and neuroscience of entrepreneurship and starting a business
How to personalize this course for your needs!
3 Topics
How to get feedback on business ideas & how to get expert feedback
Paid options to get business idea feedback
Validating business ideas by starting small and testing them in the market
8 Topics
Introduction to the WaveIfYouLike business plan and our class project
Showing the class project and its three sentence business plan
Exercise: the business case - have I sold you on it? Or do you have doubts?
Artificial Intelligence solving the design problem
You can participate in the project; Facebook group; and the rules
Introduction to accounting with COGS (Cost Of Goods Sold)
Gross Profit and Net Profit
How much demand is there? Starting to calculate the market size
6 Topics
and common business ideas questions and issues
Section introduction - deeper dive into business idea evaluation and theory
Five types of different business risk you must be aware of
Different kinds of business ideas & what you must be aware of with each
What to do if you have too many ideas
Should you follow your passion?
6 Topics
Section introduction - more practical examples of starting different businesses
Starting an agency business...in 4 different valid ways
Practical approach to starting an online business Local business - bookstore
Few more thoughts on the previous video
Client case study: Choosing an influencer niche and monetizing it
If I personally had to start a business from scratch today
7 Topics
50 productivity skills that will help you for the rest of your career
EXERCISE and brief introduction to emotional intelligence; productivity
Five productivity tips to boost quality and quantity of your work
Stress management for entrepreneurs
Your brain and business - which parts of the brain work when
The Marshmallow test - Stanford study of the best predictor of future success
Think how Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg think
4 Topics
How to protect business ideas and your company's intellectual property
How to protect your business by creating a moat around it
For first-time entrepreneurs: More on moats; barriers; being first-to-market
Case study of my decision of whether to get a trademark
17 Topics
Business planning section introduction
What is a business plan
How long should a business plan be?
The executive summary of a business plan
The product section of a business plan
Product mistake
The stage of your business
Your market size section of the business plan
Example of writing the target market and market size part of the business plan
The marketing plan of your business plan
Your business competition
Your revenue streams
Pricing and customer lifetime value (LTV)
Your founding or management team
Your business unit economics
S.W.O.T analysis
S.W.O.T example
6 Topics
The cash flow statement
How to calculate the gross profit; net profit and the bottom line
How to calculate your company profit margin
Example of calculating profit and margin
Balance sheet introduction
When do you need a business plan?
8 Topics
Marketing plan section introduction
Basic marketing plan for an Ecommerce product
Local business marketing plan example
Agency or services (marketing; web development; design) company marketing plan
Marketing plan for a blog or YouTube or podcast or influencer or coach
Marketing plan for a platform or big website domination
Marketing plan for an innovative new product or website
B2B company marketing plan
13 Topics
Fundraising section introduction
How much money you need to raise
WORKSHEET: New business expenses and calculating how much you need to raise
WORKSHEET: Existing business expenses and calculating how much to raise
Fundraising paths worksheet
Bootstrapping your business
Raising money from loans
Raising money from grants
Notes on grants
Raising money from investors
TEMPLATE: Pitch your business ideas to investors or during conversation
Earning money from your own revenue
Creative fundraising: Host events & workshops or selling educational products
4 Topics
Should you register your business
Company registration and formation decision (LLC vs. S Corp vs. C Corp)
Why you need a commercial bank account
What is a nonprofit and difference between for-profit and nonprofit
5 Topics
NEW! 3 ways to do a great product launch
How to choose a great website domain name
How to get a free domain name and extended discounts on common services
How to choose a great business name
How to set up your website quickly; cheaply; professionally; and on your own
3 Topics
Business systems - section introduction
Michael E. Gerber's E-Myth Revisited
Creating a business system with automation and outsourcing
2 Topics
Got a technical business idea? Tips to learn to code on your own!
Nightmares from outsourcing technical product development
3 Topics
My case study part 1: Early entrepreneurship and years of failure
My case study part 2: Finding growth for my business through apps
My case study part 3: Success phase and how I figured out the revenue situation
1 Topic
We've reached the optional part of the course
3 Topics
Section introduction on entrepreneurship books
Think And Grow Rich By Napoleon Hill
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
2 Topics
The 4 Steps To The Epiphany by Steve Blank
The Lean Start-up by Eric Ries
11 Topics
Introduction to building habits for entrepreneurs
How to get more discipline to begin building habits
Using our procedural memory and visualization techniques to build habits
Hack: when we are in action; we get more energy and Dopamine released during
Combining habits you like with new ones you want to form
How to test if you've formed a habit; and determining habit strength
Types of goal setting to help you form habits and find motivation
Thinking about the benefit helps to release Dopamine and give motivation
Sleep; Neuroplasticity; and habits
Research and myths about duration of building habits
Last thoughts on habits for entrepreneurs
4 Topics
Section introduction
To-do list apps
Proper ways to make to-do lists
Two time tracking apps to track where you spend most of your time
5 Topics
Trello for project and task management - section introduction
Section introduction and signing up for Trello
Creating a new board and inviting people to it
Working with tasks and creating todo lists
Starting to work with your team in Trello
12 Topics
Getting business ideas - section introduction
WORKSHEET: Picking an industry and getting started with business idea generation
Identify your business goals
Combining Industry and goals for unique & personalized business idea beginnings
Question that help you start coming up with business ideas
Adding demographics and psychographics to your idea
Bigger checklist: 18-item business idea checklist
Let's compare results from previous exercise - if yours are different; tell me
Examples of innovative and disruptive companies from YCombinator
What are moonshots; and how to balance the search for moonshots within a company
How to come up with physical product ideas
Case study of one of my own ideas I tried that failed
3 Topics
Course conclusion quiz
How to get the certificate for this entrepreneurship course
Thank you for taking this course on how to start a business - parting words
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