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Duration

12 hours

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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

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Highlights

  • Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
  • 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
  • Course 3 of 5 in the Value Creation Through Innovation Specialization
  • Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
  • Intermediate Level
  • Approx. 12 hours to complete
  • English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
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  • This Innovation and Entrepreneurship course focuses on the interconnection between entrepreneurial thinking and innovation. Specifically, we look at models used in Silicon Valley to grow both start-up companies as well as innovation inside large organizations. Bringing together top Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley faculty, this course addresses critical areas for successful growth, including design thinking, open innovation, business models, product-market fit, and financing. This course will teach you how to think like an entrepreneur and provides the models, tools and frameworks to further develop your business or idea. An emphasis will be placed on the IT space.
  • In this second part, From Design Thinking to Funding, the following areas are included: design thinking; innovation cycle process; business modeling; and funding.
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Curriculum

Innovative design thinking

Course introduction

Introduction to Module 1 to 3

Introduction to design thinking

The broad use of design thinking

Frameworks for our thinking

The brain

A design thinker

Introduction to the innovation cycle

Learning styles

Innovative design thinking

The innovation cycle - part 2

The observation phase

Observing in the field

The insight phase

The ideation phase

Ideation techniques

The experiment phase

Final thoughts

The innovation cycle

Business models - definitions and approaches

Introduction to Module 4 to 6

Introduction

Business model innovation

Business model innovation cases

Why so difficult for incumbents?

Business model disruption

Business models - definitions and approaches

Business models - frameworks and tools

Business model canvas

Business model navigator

Feeehand illustrator

Introduction

Customer discovery process

Case study

Business models - frameworks, tools and customer discovery

Sources of funding

Introduction to module 7 to 9

Family, friends and dentists

Crowd funding and angles

Institutional capital

Introduction

Company purpose and addressed problem

Solution and why now

Funding

Funding your startup - part 2

Market size and competition

Product and business model

Team and financials

About investors

Some final thoughts

Funding your startup

Course finale

Final exam

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    May 25, 2024
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