Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree - Google

Our Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree program teaches you the skills you need to create your own revenue-generating app, and build a successful business around it. You’ll learn to succeed the Silicon Valley way!

Built in partnership with Google, this program mixes theory and practice to show students how to transform ideas into market-ready products.

• Project P1: Validated Product Design

  This project will help you design a product people will love. By the end of this project, you will be able to summarize your product idea, build out wireframes or prototypes, articulate what you learned from user testing, and highlight metrics that will be important to measure for your product.

  Supporting Courses

  Product Design

  Project P1: Validated Product Design

  This project will help you design a product people will love. By the end of this project, you will be able to summarize your product idea, build out wireframes or prototypes, articulate what you learned from user testing, and highlight metrics that will be important to measure for your product.

• Project P2: Monetization Plan

  This project will help you figure out how your product will make money! With this project, you’ll identify how your product will generate revenue (your monetization strategy) and dig into the details of implementing that strategy and your rationale for choosing it.

  Supporting Courses

  App Monetization

  Project P2: Monetization Plan

  This project will help you figure out how your product will make money! With this project, you’ll identify how your product will generate revenue (your monetization strategy) and dig into the details of implementing that strategy and your rationale for choosing it.

• Project P3: Interactive Prototype

  In this project, you’ll go through the iterative prototyping process – starting with a low fidelity prototype and using feedback to build a medium fidelity prototype. By the end, you’ll have an amazing prototype to share and a really insightful list of talking points for potential investors about the feedback from your UX research experiments.

  Supporting Courses

  Rapid Prototyping

  Project P3: Interactive Prototype

  In this project, you’ll go through the iterative prototyping process – starting with a low fidelity prototype and using feedback to build a medium fidelity prototype. By the end, you’ll have an amazing prototype to share and a really insightful list of talking points for potential investors about the feedback from your UX research experiments.

• Project P4: Marketing & Distribution Plan

  With this project, you’re going to come up with a plan to acquire users and grow! By the time you’re done, you will have a robust marketing plan, which will also give you a lot of material for your final capstone project. Including a slide deck with a description of your value to your customers, how you stack up against competitors, who your target audience is, and how you plan to get distribution.

  Supporting Courses

  App Marketing

  Project P4: Marketing & Distribution Plan

  With this project, you’re going to come up with a plan to acquire users and grow! By the time you’re done, you will have a robust marketing plan, which will also give you a lot of material for your final capstone project. Including a slide deck with a description of your value to your customers, how you stack up against competitors, who your target audience is, and how you plan to get distribution.

• Project P5: Your Story

  You often only get one chance to tell someone (an investor, an accelerator, or a customer) about your business. This project will help you do that in a powerful, succinct way. This is the polished culmination of everything you’ve done and learned during the Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree. You’ll use this story to pitch your company to potential investors, incubators or accelerators, friends and family, and even new customers.

  Supporting Courses

  Get Your Startup Started

  Project P5: Your Story

  You often only get one chance to tell someone (an investor, an accelerator, or a customer) about your business. This project will help you do that in a powerful, succinct way. This is the polished culmination of everything you’ve done and learned during the Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree. You’ll use this story to pitch your company to potential investors, incubators or accelerators, friends and family, and even new customers.

• Project Optional: PitchTank Submission

  Submit the pitch deck you created in Project 5 and a short video for the chance to pitch to a top investor and win $1,000 prize!

  Project Optional: PitchTank Submission

  Submit the pitch deck you created in Project 5 and a short video for the chance to pitch to a top investor and win $1,000 prize!