Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone
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Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone at Coursera Overview
Duration | 12 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a Certificate upon completion from Coursera
- Get flexible deadlines in accordance to student's schedule
- Course 5 of 5 in the Building Your Freelancing Career Specialization
Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone at Coursera Course details
- As the final course in the Building Your Freelancing Career specialization, learners will build upon their fundamental skills from courses 1-4 to develop a fully fleshed out business plan, brand and financial model for their real freelancing business, or one they develop just for the purpose of determining whether or not they will be able to launch a new business venture
- Once they have developed their plan, they will be able to submit them for peer review and completion of the specialization
Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone at Coursera Curriculum
Course Overview
Course Introduction
Introduction to Business Plans
Get acquainted with our freelancers
Specialization Overview
Capstone Project Details
About CalArts and Extended Studies
Forum Guidelines
Academic Integrity
Requesting Peer Reviews
Find a Problem with a Hungry Audience
Understanding and Sizing Your Market
Spy on the Competition
Design Your Solution
Build Your Persona
Research Your Ideal Customer
Problem and Ideal Target Customer (Page 2)
Market Sizing
Market Research & Sizing (Page 3)
Step 3 - Assess the Competition
Competition (Page 4)
Discover your customers
Solution (Page 5)
Course 2 Review - Finances
Business Finance
Business Inputs Walkthrough
Could you give yourself a raise?
Testing additional assumptions
Adding more complexity to your inputs
Runaway 3: Design your business budget
Runway 3 continued
Financial Plan (Page 7)
Course 3 Review - Style and Presentation
Preparing Your Business Plan
Branding
Pitch your solution
Add Your Branding
Branding (Page 1 and entire document)
Pitch & Positioning (Page 6)
Course 4 Review - Risks
Risk Management
Passwords & Account Management
Rajib on facing and overcoming obstacles
Nick on balancing finances
Risks (Page 8)
Making a Go/No Go Decision
Go or No Go? (Page 9)
Self Evaluation (Page 10)
Finalize and submit your plan
Evaluating a Business Plan
Giving Useful Feedback
Socks' words of encouragement
Nick's words of wisdom
Rajib's parting advice
Conclusion
Next Steps
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