À propos de ce cours : 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.

Créé par : UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales)

Enseigné par : Allya Koesoema, Lecturer
UNSW Business School
Enseigné par : Martin Bliemel, Senior Lecturer
UNSW Business School

Engagement	6 weeks of study, 2-4 hours/week
Langue	English
Comment réussir	Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours.
Notes des utilisateurs	4.5 étoiles Note moyenne des utilisateurs 4.5Voir ce que disent les étudiants

Programme de cours

SEMAINE 1

How 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, 4 lectures

Reading: About this course
LTI Item: (OPTIONAL activity): How do you learn?
LTI Item: Activity: Are you ready to be an entrepreneur?
Reading: Reading: Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Vidéo: Video: How will your business idea evolve? The Lean Startup Method
Reading: Activity: The Lean Startup Method and Business Model Canvas
Peer Review: (Optional activity) Your first Business Model Canvas - Show it off to your peers!
Reading: Reading: Mentors, who needs them?
LTI Item: Offline Activity: Finding a mentor to validate your idea
LTI Item: Activity: Lessons learned from your mentor
LTI Item: (OPTIONAL activity): Ouch! Feedback can hurt. How sensitive are you?

SEMAINE 2

How 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, 4 lectures

Reading: Strategy Canvas: Mapping how you are different
Reading: Creating your first Persona and Customer Journey Map
Reading: Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Reading: Measuring and Learning from your MVP
LTI Item: Offline Activity: Finding a potential customer to validate your value proposition
LTI Item: Activity: Lessons learned from your customer

SEMAINE 3

How 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, 2 lectures

Reading: Growing your business: Segmenting and targeting your niches
Reading: Partners and resources
LTI Item: Offline Activity: Finding a potential partner to validate the scalability of your idea
LTI Item: Activity: Lessons learned from your partner

Noté: Midpoint Assignment: Self-assessing your Business Model Canvas

SEMAINE 4

How 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, 3 lectures

Reading: Income Statements
Reading: Forecasts and models
Reading: Metrics
LTI Item: Offline Activity: Finding a potential supplier
LTI Item: Activity: Lessons learned from your supplier

SEMAINE 5

Is investment capital right for you?

This week you'll learn some basic investment capital strategies for new ventures, illustrated using a simple capitalization table.

1 vidéo, 2 lectures

Reading: How will you finance your startup's growth?
Reading: Valuations
LTI Item: Offline Activity: Finding a potential investor
LTI Item: Activity: Lessons learned from a potential investor

SEMAINE 6

How will you pitch your idea?

This week pulls together all the elements and evidence of your business idea so far to develop a coherent and succinct business pitch

2 vidéos, 5 lectures

Reading: Pitch structure: What key ingredients do you need?
Reading: Activity: Example pitch decks - Learning from the greats (& not so greats)
Reading: Contextualising and delivering your pitch
Reading: Activity: Example pitches - Learning from the greats (& not so greats)
Vidéo: Watch UNSW students pitch 'crumplemap'
Reading: Activity: Developing your pitch
LTI Item: Exit survey

Noté: Final Assignment: Self-assessing your pitch

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Coursework

Each course is like an interactive textbook, featuring pre-recorded videos, quizzes and projects.

Help from Your Peers

Connect with thousands of other learners and debate ideas, discuss course material, and get help mastering concepts.

Certificates

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Créateurs

UNSW Australia (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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