Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland, College Park

Launch your startup! Learn how to turn great ideas into successful companies by identifying, analyzing, and launching. Develop the skills required for success.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת ביזמות של אוניברסיטת מרילנד

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Entrepreneurial thinking and skills
  • Indicators of innovative opportunities
  • Critical steps for bringing innovation to market
  • Innovation strategies for establishing and maintaining competitive advantage
  • Principles of financing new initiatives
  • Capital structures and term sheets
  • Negotiation management
  • Differences between early-stage and late-stage financing
  • Creating winning investor presentations
  • Common mistakes in presenting ideas
  • Closing deals

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • entrepreneur
  • Product Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Marketing Manager
  • Business consultant
  • Investment Analyst
  • Finance Manager
  • Innovation Manager
  • Sales Manager
  • Business key

Entrepreneurship Specialization – 4-Part Course Series

Develop your entrepreneurial thinking and skills, learn how to bring innovation to market, and design a business model to succeed in launching your new business.

Main topics:

  • Entrepreneurial thinking and skills
  • Indicators of innovative opportunities
  • Critical steps for bringing innovation to market
  • Innovation strategies for establishing and maintaining competitive advantage
  • Principles of financing new initiatives
  • Capital structures and term sheets
  • Negotiation management
  • Differences between early-stage and late-stage financing
  • Creating winning investor presentations
  • Common mistakes in presenting ideas
  • Closing deals

In the final project, you will apply the tools and concepts from the internship courses by designing a comprehensive business model validated by customers, and creating a business plan and presentation to investors.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Developing innovative ideas for new companies: The first step in entrepreneurship

Course 1

8 hours
4.7 (1,383 ratings)

What you’ll learn

This course helps entrepreneurs develop ideas for successful companies. In an era of strong economics, the need to develop skills to develop innovative business opportunities has become critical.

  • Identify and analyze entrepreneurial opportunities;
  • Improve entrepreneurial mindset;
  • Improve strategic decision-making;
  • Build innovative business models.

Skills you will acquire

  • Identifying opportunities
  • Management
  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship

Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Market

Course 2

10 hours
4.6 (681 ratings)

What you’ll learn

Developing insights into the innovation process, from generating ideas to implementing them in the market.

  • Key indicators for innovative opportunities;
  • Critical steps for bringing innovations to market;
  • Innovation strategies for new ventures.

Skills you will acquire

  • Market research
  • Business Model
  • Value proposition

Financing new ventures: Investment financing for entrepreneurs

Course 3

20 hours
4.6 (457 ratings)

What you’ll learn

Understanding how to obtain financing for a company. The course will explain dominant concepts in the world of financing.

  • Many financing options;
  • Fundamentals of financing and valuations;
  • Developing winning investor presentations.

Skills you will acquire

  • Venture capital
  • Investor
  • investment

Graduation project in entrepreneurship

Course 4

9 hours
4.7 (258 ratings)

What you’ll learn

Combining the tools and concepts to develop a comprehensive business plan. Developing a comprehensive business model validated by customers.

Skills you will acquire

  • Venture capital
  • Financial report
  • Financing
  • Entrepreneurship

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