{"id":46994,"date":"2023-10-20T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/five-great-online-courses-for-start-ups-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:52:02","slug":"five-great-online-courses-for-start-ups-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/five-great-online-courses-for-start-ups-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Five great online courses for start-ups – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting the skills and knowledge needed to run a business no longer requires that you take time away from your entrepreneurial activities to study at university.<\/p>\n

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A growing range of online courses are now available to start-ups, enabling entrepreneurs to build businesses while they learn.<\/p>\n

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Best of all, many of them are free \u2013 this week, Melbourne University struck a deal with US company Coursera to provide a range of online courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So which of the courses on offer are most useful to start-ups? We\u2019ve picked out four of Coursera\u2019s best subjects for early-stage ventures, as well as a further course from Stanford University.<\/p>\n

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To check out an overview of each course, click on the tabs below:<\/p>\n

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1. Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies<\/h2>\n

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Dr James V. Green<\/b><\/p>\n

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For budding start-ups, this course hits the sweet spot. It covers the important steps in identifying great ideas and how to commercialise them.<\/p>\n

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Creating a winning business plan and raising funding is also part of the course, which sets out two core skills it hopes participants will learn: how to use a business model approach to analyse each part of a company, and, secondly, how to use a customer development orientation to see if anyone really wants the product.<\/p>\n

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The course, run by a University of Maryland academic, will run for five to seven weeks and include quiz questions in the videos.<\/p>\n

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