Duration of the online course: 43 hours and 30 minutes
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Starting a business is exciting, but the path from idea to impact is rarely straightforward. This free Entrepreneurship course helps you build the mindset and practical decision-making needed to move from early inspiration to a scalable, market-ready venture. Whether you want to launch your first startup, validate a side project, or strengthen your business thinking for a career in business and marketing, you will learn how entrepreneurs spot opportunities, act under uncertainty, and keep momentum through real-world constraints.
You will begin by exploring the entrepreneurial journey and discovery process, clarifying what separates entrepreneurial behavior from traditional professional management. This foundation helps you understand how opportunity recognition works, how entrepreneurs approach risk and learning, and why some ventures endure while others fade. You will also reflect on personal traits and working styles to better identify how you operate in teams, make choices, and persist through ambiguity—skills that matter as much as any tool.
From there, the course shifts into action. You will practice ways to generate strong concepts and shape them into testable solutions through ideation and prototyping. Instead of relying on assumptions or lengthy reports, you will focus on learning quickly from real people, reframing problems, and translating insights into simple prototypes that can be improved. You will also consider practical innovation concerns, including when intellectual property and patents may matter, so you can make informed decisions as your concept evolves.
Next, you will dive into testing and validation, where promising ideas meet evidence. You will learn how minimum viable products help reduce wasted time and budget, and how entrepreneurial teams can make smarter product decisions by measuring what customers actually do. The course then connects these learnings to commercialization and growth, highlighting what startups must prioritize when entering markets and how disruption can occur—plus why established firms often prefer sustaining innovations over disruptive moves.
By the end, you will be able to talk clearly about your value proposition, prototype and test solutions with purpose, and make better go-to-market choices. If you are looking for a structured, free course that builds entrepreneurial competence and job-relevant business skills, this program is a strong step toward launching ideas with confidence.
Video class: Entrepreneurial Journey Part 1
32m
Video class: Entrepreneurial Journey Part 2
29m
Video class: Entrepreneurial Journey Part 3
40m
Video class: Entrepreneurial Discovery Part 1
29m
Video class: Entrepreneurial Discovery Part 2
29m
Exercise: What distinguishes an entrepreneur from a professional manager according to the understanding of entrepreneurship?
Video class: Entrepreneurial Discovery Part 3
35m
Exercise: What is a key characteristic of successful entrepreneurs in perpetuating their entrepreneurship over time?
Video class: Entrepreneurial Discovery Part 4
34m
Exercise: Which type of personality is considered most advantageous for entrepreneurial success according to the MBTI methodology discussed in the text?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 1
27m
Exercise: What distinguishes a start-up from an entrepreneurial firm in terms of goals and activities?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 2
27m
Exercise: What is the primary focus of design thinking in entrepreneurship compared to traditional market research?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 3
24m
Exercise: What is one ideation technique mentioned in the text that reverses traditional roles in processes?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 4
27m
Exercise: What is a primary focus of an ideation workshop in an entrepreneurial setting?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 5
33m
Exercise: What is a key aspect of prototyping in entrepreneurship?
Video class: Ideation and Prototyping Part 6
36m
Exercise: What are the three main criteria an invention must meet to be granted a patent?
Video class: Testing and Validation Part 1
34m
Exercise: What is one of the critical considerations for product development in entrepreneurial firms?
Video class: Testing and Validation Part 2
40m
Exercise: What is the key benefit of developing a minimum viable product (MVP) for a startup?
Video class: Commercialisation and Disruption as Success Drivers Part 1
42m
Exercise: What is emphasized as a key priority for startups during commercialization?
Video class: Commercialisation and Disruption as Success Drivers Part 2
32m
Exercise: What is the primary reason that established firms focus on sustaining innovations rather than disruptive innovations?
Video class: Commercialisation and Disruption as Success Drivers Part 3
28m
Exercise: What triggers market disruption according to the video transcript?
Video class: Commercialisation and Disruption as Success Drivers Part 4
31m
Exercise: Which of the following Indian start-up companies is known for disrupting the online retail market and achieved a high valuation through strategic investments and market growth?
Video class: Commercialisation and Disruption as Success Drivers Part 5
31m
Exercise: What is a key factor for the success of many start-ups mentioned in the text?
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Course comments: Entrepreneurship course
Shadrack Mgiba
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Sujal Gupta
thank you sir