Entrepreneurship & Small Business Resources for College & Adult

Explore 30 curated entrepreneurship & small business learning resources designed for College & Adult students. Browse curricula, apps, videos, worksheets, and more to find the perfect fit for your learner.

The Making Of A Young Entrepreneur: A Kid's Guide To Developing The Mind-Set For Success

A 16-year-old earning $60,000 a month working with such clients as IBM and Microsoft? A 14-year-old earning $1.2 million in a year . . . making jam? The number of child entrepreneurs has increased unimaginably over the past 20 years, and this rate wi...

Turn Your Idea into a Funded Business

Wharton's Entrepreneurship Specialization covers the conception, design, organization, and management of new enterprises. This four-course series is designed to take the you from opportunity identification through launch, growth, financing and...

Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up

Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical co...

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...

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...

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A collection of tutorials, introductions, and podcasts from successful entrepreneurs....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Discovering the Entrepreneur in You

Discovering the Entrepreneur in You Discovering the Entrepreneur in You will allow you to experience the thrill of being in business for yourself! This course will teach the basic principles of business by showing you how to really do it with a hand...

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,...

Wharton Entrepreneurship Capstone

In this capstone project, you will be assembling a pitch deck for a new venture, including the key deliverables (e.g., customer needs, concept description, financials, and so forth). You will review your peer’s projects according to a rubric develop...

Agile Development Capstone

The Capstone project provides a guided opportunity for you to practice your agile development skills. Using the venture design process that frames the four courses in this Specialization, you will apply agile processes to a project of your choice or...

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...

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...

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...

Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability

Start-ups can benefit from a wide variety of financing options on the path to profitability, but how do you know which one to choose? This course explores different financing models, including bootstrapping, organic growth, debt and risk capital, and...

Entrepreneurship 1: Developing the Opportunity

How does a good idea become a viable business opportunity? What is entrepreneurship and who fits the profile of an entrepreneur? This introductory course is designed to introduce you to the foundational concepts of entrepreneurship, including the def...

Entrepreneurship 3: Growth Strategies

Start-ups are designed to grow quickly, but successful start-ups grow smart. This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of the essential elements of successful scaling, including an overview of demand generation, customer acquisitio...

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...

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...

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....

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...

SBA Learning Center

Collection of free videos and resources intended to help anyone start a business. Topics range from creating business plans, evaluating competitive advantage, buying a business, customer service, human resources, market research, marketing, and...

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....

Young Entrepreneurs

This course introduces young entrepreneurs to the basics of creating and financing a successful business. You will learn to evaluate your ideas, choose the best financing options and legally register your business. The course will point you to...