New Venture Creation (Online)

This course covers the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it, and starting again. It exposes you to the vital issues of starting a new venture, immersing you in key learning experiences, such as a critical self‐assessment and the practical development of a business plan. This course is suitable for students who have some work experience and who either want to become an entrepreneur, or have had some experience with starting a new venture and want to benefit from hands‐on experiences to shorten your learning curve and reduce risk.

On successful completion of this short course, you will able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the multifaceted nature of the entrepreneur.
• Craft a personal entrepreneurial strategy.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the entrepreneurial process.
• Demonstrate how to identify, create, shape, screen and seize a sustainable opportunity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of social entrepreneurship and identify the opportunities it presents.
• Apply the requirements needed for writing up a business plan.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the entrepreneurial leader; the building of effective teams and the ethical dilemmas in entrepreneurship.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the different factors that should be considered when financing entrepreneurial ventures.