Starting a Company? 8 Free Online Courses You Can't Miss

Entrepreneurial education is slowly but surely becoming more mainstream. Traditional universities are offering entrepreneurs more tools than ever before. But education start-ups such as Coursera and Udacity have taken this a step further--offering in-depth classes on entrepreneurship taught by industry heavy-weights such as Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Steve Blank for free. Here are eight classes that every entrepreneur should take. How to Build a Startup Steve Blank, author of The Startup Owner’s Manual and The Four Steps to the Epiphany, teaches this nine-lesson class. “We used to think of startup as a smaller version of a large company,” says Blank on Udacity’s website. Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies Taught by James V. Startup Engineering This 10-week course, taught by Balaji Srinivasan and Vijay Pande of Stanford University, gives entrepreneurs the skills they need to build a tech start-up from the ground up. Introduction to Finance Law and the Entrepreneur

WTO Publications Announcements :: Academy of International Business (AIB) 2/27/2014 - AIB Announces 2014 Board Election Results The Executive Board Election results are in! The current AIB Executive Board and the AIB Secretariat congratulates the following officers who will serve on the AIB Executive Board from August 1, 2014 to July 31, 2017 in various capacities: President-Elect: Rosalie Tung Vice President Program-Elect: Charles Dhanaraj Vice President Administration: Sumit Kundu Please visit the 2014-2015 Executive Board page to see the bios of these new board members as well as those members that will continue to serve on the AIB Executive Board for the next year. 1/10/2014 - 2013 Q4 Newsletter and Insights Now Online Volume 19 (2013), Issue 4 of the AIB Newsletter and Volume 13 (2013), Issue 4 of the AIB Insights are now online. 11/5/2013 - AIB members now receive a 40% discount on Palgrave Macmillan books Did you know that AIB members now receive a special 40% discount on Palgrave books in Business & Management? 4/25/2013 - JIBS Factsheet Now Available