Entrepreneurship & Small Business Online Classes

Explore 19 curated entrepreneurship & small business online classes for homeschoolers and educators. Each resource has been reviewed for quality before being listed.

If you're going to start a business, make sure you're prepared. No matter what you're making, providing, or selling, you'll need to know the basics of business plans, marketing, accounting, and operations.

What Is Entrepreneurship?

What does it mean to be entrepreneurial? What virtues do entrepreneurs have and what behaviors do they exhibit? What kind of character do successful entrepreneurs tend to have? What is the specific role of entrepreneurs in the economy? What do entrep...

User Innovation: A Path to Entrepreneurship

We’ll let you in on a secret. Innovation isn’t confined inside the walls of research labs swarming with PhDs. More often than not, innovation is about ordinary people solving problems that matter to them personally. This could be you. First, think a...

Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies

About this Course The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But the...

Start Your Own Business Capstone - Action

It is a cliché, but nevertheless very true. Experience is the best teacher. It is also the best confidence builder. It is time for you to take action! The concepts and skills presented throughout the courses in the specialization are applied in this...

New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs

New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs is for aspiring or active entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure funding for their company. This course will demystify key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entr...

Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System

New ideas based on high-technology research have a high failure rate because they hit the ground running with lopsided priorities and misalignments. Students complete this course with an Innovation Creed (“Why are you doing this?”) and a customized I...

BUS305: Small Business Management

This course will introduce you to entrepreneurship and business planning. By way of introduction, the word entrepreneur originates from the French word entreprendre, meaning to undertake. Today, we define an entrepreneur as an owner or manager of a b...

Forging Christian Entrepreneurship

Members get access to 190+ professionally-produced videos that explain proven practices and principles such as: sales, marketing, accounting, finance, business law, human resources, business planning, business communications, operations, technology,...

Action-Driven Business Plan: From the ‘Classroom’ to the World

This assignment asks you, our learner, to pull together all you have learned in the three startup entrepreneurship courses that comprise “Cracking the Creativity Code” specialization. This project promotes deep understanding of the action...

Entrepreneurship Capstone

Integrate the tools and concepts from the specialization courses to develop a comprehensive business plan. Choose to enhance new venture concepts previously explored in specialization courses, or develop a new concept for this capstone project. Devel...

Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship

This course assists aspiring and active entrepreneurs in developing great ideas into great companies. With strong economies presenting rich opportunities for new venture creation, and challenging economic times presenting the necessity for many to ma...

Developing An Entrepreneurial Mindset: First Step Towards Success

This course is the first in a series on starting a business. Though new venture creation is the focus of the specialization, this course is important for everyone. It provides learners with insights to reframe their thinking in order to maximize thei...

Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace

Develop insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialization. Build knowledge on how to create strategies to bring innovations to market. Develop an innovation portfolio and business model canvas for your venture. W...

Business of Games and Entrepreneurship

As well as a form of art and entertainment, games are about business. Whether you want to work at a game studio, start your own business or make games as a hobby, recognizing the dynamic landscape of the videogame industry is critical to finding your...

How to Start A Business

This specialization is a guide to creating your own business. We will cover a progression of topics necessary for successful business creation including: mindset, ideation, planning, action and strategy. Rather than just describing what to do, the fo...

Interviews with entrepreneurs

Personal lessons and insights from accomplished entrepreneurs are the basis of this interview series produced by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Khan Academy....

Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action

Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial oppor...

Become a Small Business Owner

Start your own business and get it right the first time. Learn everything you need to become a small business owner, from understanding the responsibilities of entrepreneurship to figuring out the legal, financial, and operational aspects of your fut...

Entrepreneurship

Personal lessons and insights from accomplished entrepreneurs are the basis of this interview series produced by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Khan Academy....