5 entrepreneurial courses you can take while working from home
As the number of coronavirus cases has increased, so has the number of enterprises asking their employees to work from home.
In Singapore, at least 70% of the workforce works from home. This is the moment when commuting time has been reduced, giving you more time to enroll in self-improvement classes.
Here’s a list of short entrepreneurial courses you can take during this Work – From – Home (WFH) Pandemic period.
Course Overview
This 27-hour program provides participants with a grasp of the fundamental ideas required to start and run a business. This entrepreneurship program is for people who want to learn how to become successful entrepreneurs and build the information, attitudes, and abilities needed to do so. The program will benefit the participant’s entrepreneurial endeavors.
What you’ll learn:
– Starting a new business
– Operational planning
– Branding and Marketing
– Funding of business
Duration: 27 hours
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Course Overview
This course walks you through the steps of becoming a fashion entrepreneur, from identifying a prospective business opportunity to articulating a concept and creating a basic business plan. This course will help you better grasp the trajectory of a fashion start-up through lectures from fashion industry experts and the examination of real fashion business cases.
Who should apply:
– Art students
– Junior fashion designers
– Entrepreneurs
– Marketing personnel and/or anyone keen on fashion entrepreneurship
Duration: 8 classes
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William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
He an entrepreneur and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, teaches Harvard Business Online’s Entrepreneurship Essentials course, which is geared toward students, aspiring entrepreneurs, and rising entrepreneurs.
Course Overview
It has 25-30 hours of content that covers the entire entrepreneurial process, from concept generation to capital raising. Real-world, case-based learning, as well as the teaching of the “People, Opportunity, Context, and Deal” framework, are among the course’s highlights.
What you’ll learn:
– Identify a business opportunity
– Evaluate an idea and assess the market
– Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship
– Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy
– Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a startup
– Understand the process of raising capital and how to speak to investors
Duration: 4 weeks
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Course Overview
This curriculum aims to assist students in developing an entrepreneurial attitude. Students will work in multi-disciplinary teams to solve problems that will allow them to assess their business skills and commitment required to run a successful entrepreneurial firm, as well as analyze the obstacles and rewards of entrepreneurship.
Students will learn about entrepreneurship from a socioeconomic standpoint, as well as business model canvas, lean startup technique, and disruptive innovation.
What you’ll learn:
– Design Thinking for Business
– Business Model Generation & Validation
– Building Prototypes
– Marketing Plan & ROI
– Finance Management
– Exit Strategies
– Legal Aspects of Starting a Business
– Business Plan Development
– Pitching for Investment
Who should apply:
– Personnel and professionals from any industry with a keen interest and passion in entrepreneurship.
Duration: 60hours / 15 sessions
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5. NUS – Digital Marketing: Online Display Ads
Consultant/Trainer, NUS Business School
Eu Gene has served as a consultant and trainer for digital marketing at NUS Business School since 2012. He has more than 26 years of marketing experience and has trained 12,000+ professionals and business owners over the last 12 years.
Course Overview
Every day, billions of people browse digital media, websites, social platforms like Facebook and Instagram, and mobile phone games. These platforms are now monetizing their ‘stickiness’ by using display banners, sponsored videos, and other methods to generate advertising revenue.
Businesses may learn to optimize their display advertising spending to reach specific target markets on these platforms by acquiring and analyzing consumer data.
What you’ll learn:
– Online Display Ads Marketing Campaigns
– Rise of Native Advertising
– Contextual Targeting
– Re-targeting
– Creating Ads Campaigns
– Ad Buying Mechanisms
– Programmatic Advertising
– Ad Networks and Exchanges
– Privacy Issues in Display Ads
– Estimating Return on Investments (ROI) on Display Ad Campaigns
Who should apply:
– Marketing managers;
– Advertising professionals;
– Consultants
– Business owners
– Data analysts
– Managers in non-marketing functions who wish to grow into marketing roles
For more information on the course, click here
