Starting your own business is one of the most rewarding — and daunting — things you can do. By the end of this course, you'll be able to generate viable business ideas from the problems you encounter every day, build a scrappy MVP, calculate your market size, choose a revenue model that fits, and assemble the co-founder team to pull it off.

Creating a Business of Your Own

Creating a Business of Your Own
This course is part of Starting a Business Specialization

Instructor: Madecraft
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Recommended experience
What you'll learn
How to identify real-world problems worth solving and turn them into viable business ideas you can start testing this week.
How to build a lean go-to-market strategy using Build-Measure-Learn, so you can launch, get feedback, and iterate toward product-market fit.
How to articulate a competitive edge, size your market, price for ROI, and assemble a co-founding team that can go the distance.
Skills you'll gain
- Lean Methodologies
- Market Analysis
- User Feedback
- Fundraising
- Business Development
- Business Modeling
- Market Research
- Brainstorming
- Team Building
- Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Business Strategy
- Market Opportunities
- Go To Market Strategy
- Entrepreneurship
- New Business Development
- Ideation
- Customer Insights
- Business Planning
- User Research
- Performance Measurement
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