Creating and Developing a Tech Startup
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Creating and Developing a Tech Startup at Coursera Overview
Duration | 11 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Creating and Developing a Tech Startup at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Approx. 11 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Creating and Developing a Tech Startup at Coursera Course details
- This course will allow you to identify and evaluate opportunities for creating a tech business, and to better understand its principal issues on a human, technical, commercial, environmental and financial level.
- As such, you will obtain solid foundations either for building your own tech business, or for joining one.
- Deciding to create or to join a tech business in these early years is an out-of-the-ordinary adventure, and it certainly won?t be straightforward: you need to be ready to accept that not all "good" ideas will lead to success, and that only a very small number of projects lead to great success. You must learn to overhaul your relationship with failure, which is a valuable source of experience and should be managed according to the logic of ?acceptable loss?: the entrepreneur loves uncertainty, not excessive risk. The creation of tech businesses gives you a genuine opportunity to change the world, but requires you to adopt a particular state of mind and to be able to acquire knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills.
- You will have the chance to work alongside passionate and exciting people from a whole multitude of backgrounds. From a technological point of view, these women and men have constructed numerous companies of a global scale.
- The development trajectory of a tech business is full of mishaps which require you to be both agile and greatly prepared to build on a strong idea, choose your market, develop your proposal, assemble a team worthy of the task in hand, and finding financing.
- The course is made up of methodological sessions as well as first-hand accounts from entrepreneurs and people who have succeeded in creating tech businesses themselves. You will thus be able to get to know the essential dilemmas with which high-tech business creators are confronted with, beginning with the initial decision to set up your very own structure, which itself represents a significant life decision.
- You will also see that the creation of a tech business is much more a collective adventure than an individual one.
- In the English version, all of the reading content, quizzes and assesments will be in English, whilst the videos will have French audio and English subtitles.
Creating and Developing a Tech Startup at Coursera Curriculum
From laboratory invention to formulation of an innovative concept
1.1 Introduction
1.2 From laboratory research to the decision to create an innovative company: the experience of a researcher-entrepreneur.
1.3 Innovative design, a mix of methods and practices stemming from ?sciences of the artificial?.
1.4 Creating an innovative company with several associates: what are the selection criteria?
1.5 Methods and recommendations for defining and assessing an opportunity to create a tech company.
Syllabus
Biography Week 1
Week 1
Fostering the development of your concept
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The key steps to bringing an innovative project to fruition.
2.3 The fundamentals of the company?s strategy.
2.4 Innovative strategies: the typology and value perceived by the customer.
2.5.1 The challenges of intellectual property to exploit an innovation 1/3
2.5.2 The challenges of intellectual property to exploit an innovation 2/3
2.5.3 The challenges of intellectual property to exploit an innovation 3/3
Biography Week 2
Week 2
Identifying the actors of technological innovation
3.1 Introduction
3.2 From science to industry: the purpose of a technology transfer service.
3.3 From PhD to a navigation startup: the case of Sysnav.
3.4 Building a team, the key to success for a startup.
3.5 The outlook in social sciences research for entrepreneurs.
Teaser Sounds Good
Biography Week 3
Week 3
How to calculate your financing needs and to find funding
4.1 Introduction
4.2.1 An overview of your financing needs and financial sources for innovation 1/4
4.2.2 An overview of your financing needs and financial sources for innovation 2/4
4.2.3 An overview of your financing needs and financial sources for innovation 3/4
4.2.4 An overview of your financing needs and financial sources for innovation 4/4
4.3.1 What leads an individual to fund a tech startup? 1/2
4.3.2 What leads an individual to fund a tech startup? 2/2
4.4 From wavelet theory to the ?Let It Wave? startup: financing the launch.
4.5 How does a venture capital fund decide to finance a breakthrough technology?
Biography Week 4
Week 4
Defining your business model
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Making the leap from the academic to the business world: a researcher/entrepreneur explains.
5.3 From the technology to the value proposition and business model.
5.4 The business plan: its importance and limitations for the creators of an innovative company.
5.5.1 From the creation of a startup to the IPO: the example of Cellectis 1/2
5.5.2 From the creation of a startup to the IPO: the example of Cellectis 2/2
Biography Week 5
Week 5
End of the course and final exam
Final exam
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