Business model canvas
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Business & management · 61Beginner
Startup Founder
Project owners or future founders.
Accounting and ethics for founders, design thinking, creativity and launching a business, then customer acquisition through digital channels.
317hours of coursework
32weeks at 10 h
4steps
21courses
2universities
Target skills
InnovationJourney MappingEntrepreneurshipDesign ThinkingCreativityCreative ThinkingStrategic ThinkingIdeationCustomer InsightsFinancial StatementsBalance SheetFinance
Skill labels as listed on Coursera.
Target jobs
- Startup founder
- Entrepreneur
- New product lead
Progression
- 1University of VirginiaBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Financial Accounting Fundamentals Beginner 13 h 4.8 (2,913) Ethical Leadership Through Giving Voice to Values Beginner 11 h 4.7 (617) New Models of Business in Society — 5 h 4.7 (4,080) Innovating with the Business Model Canvas Beginner 4 h 4.6 (324) - 2University of VirginiaBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Design Thinking: Insights to Inspiration Beginner 14 h 4.7 (156) Design Thinking: Ideas to Action Beginner 14 h 4.6 (86) Design Thinking: Discovery Tools Beginner 14 h 4.7 (43) Experiencing Design: Deepening Your Design Thinking Practice Beginner 11 h 4.7 (71) - 3University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginner
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) Strategic Innovation: Building and Sustaining Innovative Organizations Beginner 14 h 4.8 (1,311) Strategic Innovation: Managing Innovation Initiatives Beginner 14 h 4.8 (742) Creativity Toolkit I: Changing Perspectives Beginner 21 h 4.8 (658) Creativity Toolkit II: Creative Collaboration Beginner 22 h 4.8 (414) Entrepreneurship I: Laying the Foundation Beginner 12 h 4.8 (1,334) Entrepreneurship II: Preparing for Launch Beginner 12 h 4.8 (771) - 4University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBeginnerDigital Marketing Tools
Stated prerequisites: No prior experience required
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Course Level Length Rating (reviews) The Digital Marketing Revolution Beginner 26 h 4.7 (1,829) Marketing in a Digital World Beginner 29 h 4.7 (17,096) Digital Marketing: Customer Engagement Strategy Beginner 13 h 4.5 (4,829) Digital Marketing: Platforms, Data, and Technologies Beginner 12 h 4.5 (3,363) Digital Marketing Strategy: Navigating Emerging Media and AI Beginner 19 h 4.4 (2,897) Digital Marketing Implementation: Executing Strategies in a Connected, Data-Driven World Beginner 19 h 4.6 (3,177) Digital Marketing Capstone Beginner 18 h 4.5 (610)
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Projects to build
Customer interviews
Run ten interviews with potential customers and build a prototype from them.
Investor pitch
Prepare a ten-slide pitch with three-year financial forecasts.
Free textbooks
EntrepreneurshipOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)
Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial AccountingOpenStaxFree (OpenStax)