Start-ups are designed to grow quickly, but successful start-ups grow smart. This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the essential elements of successful scaling, including an overview of demand generation, customer acquisition, adoption, diffusion and forecasting demand. You’ll also learn how to market effectively using best practices of digital marketing, social media, PR, SEO, and pricing. Finally, you’ll cover the nuts and bolts of building a sales process, partnerships and supply relationships, and examine the crucial components of attracting, developing and retaining talent. By the end of this course, you’ll have an outline of an expansion strategy for your idea or enterprise, and also be ready for Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability
Building the Right Culture for Growth
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Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies
University of Pennsylvania
Cours 3 sur 5 dans Specialization Entrepreneurship
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Module 4: Creating and Scaling Company Culture
This module explores the best approaches for attracting and retaining talent, creating a company culture that is conducive to growth, and how company founders and early employees can learn to delegate authority and manage the people-based growing pains that many start-ups experience. You'll learn how to scale up strategically, and how to you decide whether to expand to different segments once you establish a foothold in your target segment. You'll also examine the differences between vertical expansion and horizontal expansion, and learn how to decide which path to pursue. By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to make the tough decisions required to manage a start-up’s personnel roster and strategic direction as your business grows.
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Kartik HosanagarProfessor
Wharton School
Lori RosenkopfVice Dean and Director, Wharton Undergraduate Division
Simon and Midge Palley Professor of Management
David HsuRichard A. Sapp Professor of Management
The Wharton School
Laura HuangAssistant Professor
Management
Ethan MollickAssociate Professor
Associate Professor of Management- Wharton School
David BellXinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor, Professor of Marketing
Marketing
Karl T. UlrichVice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Wharton School
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