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Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Course Overview

A month-long Entrepreneurship Essentials certification is a course that is developed by the Harvard Business School Online. This is a self-paced course that is designed to be taught online by renowned faculty mainly to budding entrepreneurs. This course is here to give introductory ideas on the road ahead for students to start off their entrepreneurial journey. They will be enlightened about finding a new idea, developing it, financing it by raising capital from venture capitalists, and finally gaining traction in the marketplace.

Entrepreneurship Essentials training will explain how entrepreneurs can make experiments so that they can get their ideas and business strategy refined, and validated. This course will help aspiring entrepreneurs and even investors so that they are able to make their final decisions for creating value. This course also provides a completion certificate that will help the candidates delve into the entrepreneurial world, and grow their business to new heights.

The Highlights

Programme on entrepreneurship
4 weeks course
Sessions held online
7-8 hours weekly classes
Introductory course
Completion certificate by Harvard Business School

Programme Offerings

4 Weeks Course. Online Format
completion certificate
Faculty Videos
Self-paced
Career Development
Self-Improvement

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate Availability	Certificate Providing Authority
yes	HBS Boston

The Entrepreneurship Essentials certification fee is $1,750. With Harvard Business School, online candidates will be allowed to make payments using either their credit cards, Western Union Money Transfer, eCheck, or even using bank loans. Again irrespective of what mode of payment is used, the amount has to be paid in US Dollars only. Sometimes the candidates are offered scholarships, once eligibility is confirmed. Again, sometimes candidates may be allowed to split their payments into 2 separate credit card transactions provided they make the first payment of $350.

Entrepreneurship Essentials Fee Structure

Description	Amount in USD
Programme Fee	$1,750

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

No matter what background of education candidates have, being accustomed to English is an important requirement.

Age Requirement

The minimum age that a participant must be is 18 years to apply successfully.

Certification Qualifying Details

Receiving the Entrepreneurship Essentials certification by Harvard Business School Online will be based on participants attending, and completing all 4 modules, within a given time frame.

What you will learn

Entrepreneurial skills

Here’s what the ‘Entrepreneurship Essentials’ certification syllabus will be teaching the candidates:

Candidates will be assessing the market by evaluating, and identifying ideas.
Learners will be understanding the capital raising process, by learning to speak to investors.
Candidates will be refining their business strategies by experimenting so that their ideas get validated.
Learners will get a great opportunity to learn from successful venture capitalists and Entrepreneurs.
There are tons of risks, and rewards that come with Entrepreneurship, that can be appreciated by the learners.
When a venture is in an early stage, firm decisions must be taken which are learnt by the candidates.

Who it is for

Entrepreneur

Below are the groups of people who can participate in this course:

Caddies who are early-stage entrepreneurs or have an idea of a start-up can take part so that they are able to learn the language of these businesses.
Entrepreneurs who have just started out can learn how to manage, finance, and build up their presence in this competitive business world.
Even students who want to start up on the journey of being an entrepreneur can learn a lot in detail from this programme.

Admission Details

Run through the admission process written below:

Step 1: Visit the Entrepreneurship Essentials course official site: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/entrepreneurship-essentials?delta=0.

Step 2: Next comes scrolling, and clicking on ‘Take Course’.

Step 3: Then the candidates are redirected to another page where they locate the ‘Apply Now button, and click.

Step 4: Then all the candidates have to do is create Harvard Business School accounts for logging in.

Step 5: Next they need to log in again to clear off the fee, and once everything gets verified by the Harvard team, admission gets confirmed after one week.

Application Details

Candidates need to enter some details which are their mailing address, age and name, to start their process of learning by signing through to the Harvard Business School website.

The Syllabus

Case Studies

Dr. John’s Spinbrush

Takeaways

Identify an entrepreneurial idea
Evaluate an entrepreneurial idea
Gain comfort with twists and turns

Key Exercises

Sizing the market
Estimate willingness to pay

Case Studies

Rent the Runway

Takeaways

Apply the POCD (People, Opportunity, Context, Deal) framework
Manage risk and reward through experimentation
Make decisions with the future in mind

Key Exercises

Evaluating POCD elements and fit
Designing and learning from tests
Anticipating change and reacting to new information

Takeaways

Determine how investment can help you create value for yourself and your investors
Consider risk and reward through various forms of analysis
Discover when to solicit investment and how much you will need to seek out

Key Exercises

Understanding and presenting key financial metrics
Determining investment needs

Case Studies

Intuit

Takeaways

Understand the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with different sources of financing
Defining key financing terms
Apply the tools of valuation to start-up ventures