Starting a new business begins with an idea that needs to evolve through experimentation, iteration and interactions with people. This course is for existing and potential entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance and support to make their ‘great idea’ a reality. In addition to reviewing the basic principles of entrepreneurship, this course guides you through the process of actively validating your idea in the market. We encourage you to identify and communicate good opportunities and to create and capture value from these opportunities. By working through the course and completing the activities you’ll learn how to get feedback that systematically tests different parts of your business idea. You will learn how to do this through interacting with potential customers, suppliers, partners and investors outside the course. Along the way, you will also become more confident in pitching your idea. By the end of the course you should have a validated business idea that you can start right away.
How to Validate your Startup Idea
proposé par
UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
À propos de ce cours
4.4
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Compétences que vous acquerrez
Lean StartupValue PropositionInvestmentEntrepreneurship
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
1How can you learn entrepreneurship?
In the first week, you'll be learning about some basic concepts in entrepreneurship. Specifically we're going to introduce the business canvas and the lean method, two key frameworks that will be used to structure your activities throughout this course.
2 vidéos (Total 6 min), 4 lectures, 6 quiz
2 vidéos
Video: How will your business idea evolve? The Lean Startup Method4 min
4 lectures
About this course10 min
Reading: Introduction to Entrepreneurship10 min
Activity: The Lean Startup Method and Business Model Canvas10 min
Reading: Mentors, who needs them?10 min
Semaine
2How is your idea valuable?
This week you'll learn to articulate and test your value proposition by drawing on three concepts: the strategy canvas, persona and minimum viable product (MVP). The strategy canvas emphasizes the uniqueness of your value proposition. The 'persona' represents who you think your typical customer is, which is useful for identifying real customers. The MVP is a simple prototype, which is a key tool to to get feedback from potential customers about the value you are providing them.
1 vidéo (Total 5 min), 4 lectures, 2 quiz
1 vidéo
4 lectures
Strategy Canvas: Mapping how you are different10 min
Creating your first Persona and Customer Journey Map10 min
Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)10 min
Measuring and Learning from your MVP10 min
Semaine
3How will you reach more customers?
This week we'll help you think beyond your first customers, to scaling up your business across multiple segments of customers. The core concepts for this module are the diffusion of innovation and developing partnerships.
1 vidéo (Total 3 min), 2 lectures, 3 quiz
1 vidéo
2 lectures
Growing your business: Segmenting and targeting your niches10 min
Partners and resources10 min
Semaine
4How profitable is your idea?
This week is an introduction to financial literacy. We'll show you how to build an income statement, how to develop financial models and financial forecasts. We'll also introduce you to some metrics to track the viability of your business that complement the traditional accounting metrics.
1 vidéo (Total 3 min), 3 lectures, 2 quiz
1 vidéo
3 lectures
Income Statements10 min
Forecasts and models10 min
Metrics10 min
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par RH•Jan 22nd 2017
I am loving it so far.\n\nMy only concerns are about the platform, would love to have a help chat or somebody who I can talk to.
par RS•Aug 30th 2016
Its a great course for entrepreneurs before they get into the market with their idea's..
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Allya Koesoema
LecturerUNSW Business School
Martin Bliemel
Senior LecturerUNSW Business School
À propos de UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
UNSW Sydney, based in Sydney Australia, was established in 1949 and is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching universities with more than 50,000 students from over 120 countries. UNSW Sydney aspires to provide students with an outstanding educational experience, which both reflects our strong traditions of excellence, innovation and social justice, and builds on our strengths in scientific, technological and professional disciplines.
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