Becoming an Entrepreneur
Curious about entrepreneurship, but not sure where to start? Becoming an Entrepreneur is designed in partnership with MIT to guide people of all ages and backgrounds through the process of founding a company. With enrollment in the hundreds of thousands, this course is as engaging and accessible as it is informative.
Becoming an Entrepreneur will provide you with inspiration to explore an entrepreneurial path and tools to overcome the initial challenges of building a business.
From developing new business ideas and doing market research to designing and testing your offering and pitching, this course follows LaunchX’s successful approach to entrepreneurship that leverages MIT’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship, lean methodologies, and design thinking. There will be a combination of short videos and activities that will challenge you to get you away from your computer screen and into the community to make a real impact.
No previous business or entrepreneurship experience needed. Join us to embark on your entrepreneurial journey.
What you'll learn
- Overcoming the top myths of entrepreneurship
- Defining your goals as an entrepreneur and startup
- Identifying business opportunities
- Performing market research and choosing your target customer
- Designing and testing your offering
- Planning your business logistics, plus pitching and selling to customers
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Rating | 4.7★ based on 118 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 6 weeks, 1–3 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $69 |
From | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MITx via edX |
Instructors | Laurie Stach, Martin Culpepper |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business |
Tags | Business & Management |
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very good
course content is very good instructor is good Provider is excellent.
This course is very good to motivate me become entterpreneur.
I'm enrolled on other courses right now and I hope their gonna be so good as this one This course is very good, I clearly understood the concepts, I found it very didactic.
I really love this course Thank you MIT :) Laurie Stach is Very good in teaching things with her Pretty smile.
Everything is very good.
the course was very good and i learned a lot.
It was a very good exposure to the bussiness world.
Hope there will be more similar ones It very good, I like the practical examples and guidelines given.
This course gave me very good knowledge and motivation to proceed further.
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high school
You may have a high school student with no grading experience grading the ideas of a person with an MBA or professional business person who is just taking the course to learn the content.
Please don't look down on this course just because it's intended for high school student, it's full important info and very motivating.
I study a little beat about enterpreneurship in high school and now am doing agriculture in the University wih a passion of becoming an entrepreneur, a future boss for my self through serving my community.
As a high school student, I took this course in order to challenge myself.
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will help
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I enjoyed it a lot & hopefully the knowledge I gained will help me a lot in future excellent, i had the great experience while doing this course, the content was very awesome and instructors explained it really very well the way they make me understood that is commendable.
My uncle runs the family business and i hope this will help him too!
Since I am about to start my own venture very soon, I learnt a lot from this course and hope this will help me in my future venture Fue muy constructivo, y excelente experiencia de aprendizaje.
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really enjoyed
I really enjoyed this.
Thanks a lot for the opportunitty to take this course, I really enjoyed every minute and hour dedicated to this course.
I really enjoyed the course.
I really enjoyed the course, now I have more knowledge of entrepreneurship and this will really help in my career.
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lot from
Eventhough i don't finish the assigmnent and my score is bad, but i learn a lot from this course.
regards George GO This course was fantastic and i learned a lot from it, i regret not being at pace with the classes and finishing after the course ended.
Really concise and I definitely learnt a lot from the course.
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Careers
An overview of related careers and their average salaries in the US. Bars indicate income percentile.
Statistician, Market Research $58k
Assistant Market Research $61k
Analyst-Market Research $61k
Analyst/Market Research $62k
Market Research Professional $72k
Market and Research Analyst $72k
Market and Research Analyst $72k
Market Research Project $73k
Market Research Operations $77k
Market Research Officer $91k
Market Research & Analysis $102k
Market Research Vendor $152k
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Rating | 4.7★ based on 118 ratings |
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Length | 6 weeks |
Effort | 6 weeks, 1–3 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $69 |
From | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MITx via edX |
Instructors | Laurie Stach, Martin Culpepper |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Business |
Tags | Business & Management |
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