New Venture Creation
- Turns Ideas Into Successful Business Ventures
- Taught by Serial Entrepreneurs
- Builds Skills To Minimize Risk and Make Effective Decisions
Through an in-depth understanding of key business models, financial planning, business decision-making, entrepreneurial problem solving, persuasive marketing, and a passion for creation, ideas can become successful business endeavors. These courses are designed for entrepreneurs with big ideas. They teach basic skills, such as circumventing common pitfalls in the feasibility and development stages of starting a business, as well as advanced skills, such as strategically putting ideas into action for a sustainable business model.
Acquisition Basics for Entrepreneurs
Learn how to structure companies and their operations in order to maximize sale value for mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Entrepreneurial Problem Solving
Learn about experiential entrepreneurship—the ability to identify problems and create solutions to them that others value.
Strategy for the Entrepreneur
This workshop, for both entrepreneurs and employees with an idea, outlines the framework and core elements of successful strategic business plans.
Entrepreneurial Skills for New Coaches
Learn how to establish a private coaching practice—one that aligns with your vision and values.
Capstone: Certificate in Food Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Develop your food and beverage product or service venture by creating a mission statement and job descriptions and preparing a business plan.
Food Experience, Design, and Marketing
Gain practical guidance about food and beverage product design, marketing, and consumer experience.
Food Retail Location Analysis
Analyze the critical factors of distribution, wholesale markets, and retail markets for food and beverage products.
Food and Beverage Logistics and Supply Chain
In this online foundation course, learn about recipe creation for the food and beverage product you are looking to introduce to the marketplace.
From Concept to Consumer
This foundation course takes you through food and beverage business planning and concept development.
Sourcing and Managing Global Talent
This course provides an overview of common technology and operational tools to manage and lead global teams in a digital age.
Starting a Successful Art Business
Identify and acquire the skills necessary to launch, sustain, and grow an art business.
Venture Formation and Financing
This course details business creation options available and discusses professional services and financing to consider when starting a new venture.
Entrepreneurship A-Z: Techniques for Operating Your Business
Learn everything you need to know about starting a business.
Advanced Methods for Startup and Corporate Entrepreneurs
Learn to use state-of-the-art tools and methods to discover customers’ unmet needs in your market value chain to gain the competitive edge.
Starting Your Coaching Practice
Learn how to start, build, maintain, and sustain a thriving coaching practice of your own.
Entrepreneurial Marketing
Explore marketing concepts and strategies relevant to start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs as well as established firms introducing new products.
Entrepreneurial PR: Leadership and Organizational Communication Strategies in Today's Startup Culture
Learn how to incorporate innovative PR strategies to create strategic messaging, engagement, and a reputation that resonate with a global audience.
Managing Projects at Startups
Learn how to adapt generally accepted project management techniques to a young company, in which project timelines are compressed.
Entrepreneurship A-Z: Intensive
Learn everything you need to know about starting a business in this accelerated two-day course.
Entrepreneurship and the Arts
Explore the intersection of art and entrepreneurship, and acquire the knowledge needed to create your own arts-related enterprise.
How to Commercialize Your Favorite Recipe with Success
Gain the knowledge and skills to commercialize a specialty food product, whether you want to keep the business small, grow it, or run it as a hobby.
Sports Startup Lab
Learn how to research, prototype, and iterate a product or concept for a sports startup, and get feedback from potential customers/investors.
Starting a Successful Events Business
If you are an event professional ready to start your own company, then this workshop can help you to navigate the path toward business ownership.
Startups in a Digital Ecosystem
Learn how to take advantage of digital marketing channels to test your product and to grow your business.