The 10 Best Entrepreneurship Courses of 2011 Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results. After each hurdle, students are force-ranked, so someone always lands on the bottom. Midway through the semester, the class stages a trade show at which venture capitalists stroll around writing fictitious checks. Some students make out like bandits, while others are publicly stiffed. For the lesson on presentation skills, a television news crew is invited to record three-minute segments about the aspiring entrepreneurs' companies. Oh, and all the companies are real, because students incorporate within the first two weeks. "It's all about building up your tolerance for risk," says Perry Klebahn, an associate consulting professor who, together with professor Michael Dearing, designed and teaches Launchpad. Best Courses 2011: Founders' Dilemmas at Harvard Business School
How to Become an Social Entrepreneur: An Introduction|Udemy Social entrepreneurs are leaders that attempt to solve great social challenges with disruptive strategies that are impactful, sustainable, and scalable. Successful social entrepreneurs explore and develop new models and bring transformative approaches to pressing societal challenges. This “How to Become a Social Entrepreneur” course is offered as an entry point for those interested in learning more about social entrepreneurs, their strategies and tools, and their expanding role in global problem solving. This is an introductory course. Although the concept of social entrepreneurship was discussed in the 1980s and 1990s, the field of social entrepreneurship is relatively new having experienced dramatic growth over the last decade. Young people around the world aspire to be social entrepreneurs. This course also reflects the countless scholars who have pushed this field forward over the last few decades and made their ideas and works available to colleagues and practitioners globally.
Create a Killer Business Plan - Martha Stewart Career and workplace You've got the idea, now package it well! The way you present your company and vision will determine whether you get the right financial partners and the right deal. Marketing Your IdeaLife is marketing. We're constantly being pitched to as consumers, yet we also market our products, our ideas, and ourselves personally and professionally. But where do so many early-stage entrepreneurs go wrong? They fail to sell their start-up effectively. As a former entrepreneur and a start-up consultant today, I've certainly seen more business plans than I care to remember. Make your business plan shine with the three "Cs" to success: Be ConciseA concise plan provides a simple explanation for why the business is a great idea, as well as how it will be executed. Be CompellingThe goal is to make your company appear to be deeply compelling. Be CompleteYou must have a trusted third party review your plan to ensure it addresses all possible issues an investor may have. Wow!
Syllabus | Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Sloan School of Management Social Entrepreneurship Online Course Unite For Sight Enroll in the Social Entrepreneurship Certificate Program Social Entrepreneurship Online Course This online course describes the defining characteristics of the social entrepreneur, the difference between social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship, the way in which social entrepreneurship differs from charity, the role of innovation in social entrepreneurship, and how to measure the success of a social venture by assessing its impact. This course is freely and publicly available. Online Course Unite For SightInternational Headquarters234 Church Street 15th FloorNew Haven, Connecticut 06510United States of America
Entrepreneurship Training Entrepreneurship can play a critical role in creating economic opportunity and changing lives. AMIDEAST is committed to working with local, regional, and international partners to advance entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa through programs and initiatives that raise awareness and provide training opportunities for men and women alike. Cisco Entrepreneur Institutes Under a new partnership with the nonprofit arm of Cisco Systems, AMIDEAST centers in five countries ― Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Tunisia, and the West Bank/Gaza ― offer the Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute’s cutting edge entrepreneurship training curriculum to students and aspiring entrepreneurs. [ + ] Arab Women's Entrepreneurship Project (AWEP) In partnership with Citi Foundation, AMIDEAST is providing women entrepreneurs from underserved backgrounds with training that will help them start a new business or expand an existing one [ + ]. HSBC Finance and Entrepreneurship Awareness Program
Social Entrepreneur Coach: Coaching Entrepreneurs to Make a Difference Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East: Christopher M. Schroeder: 9780230342224: Amazon.com C.J. Hayden » Entrepreneurship I have a passion for entrepreneurship that dates back to selling handmade jewelry at age 11. I’ve owned and managed several small businesses and have been continuously self-employed for over twenty-three years. For the past 20+ years, I’ve been helping entrepreneurs and independent professionals to succeed, as a coach, author, and trainer. I’ve written dozens of articles on entrepreneurship topics, and taught entrepreneurship classes for a wide variety of organizations. My current focus is on helping entrepreneurs get strategic and get things done. On this site, you’ll find a selection of my entrepreneurship articles (below), details about my books and audios, and announcements of upcoming events. There is some territory I am feeling compelled to explore these days with my readers, clients, students, and colleagues. Those of you who, like myself, are small business owners, solo entrepreneurs, and self-employed people have a particular dilemma. Congratulations!
An Overview on Entrepreneurship efforts in Egypt and the Arab World: Rania Al-Maghraby: Amazon.com Google selects 200 Egyptian startups as finalists in its nationwide competition Google MENA has announced the 200 finalists for the Start with Google (or Ebda2) initiative that was launched in Egypt in September. Google will be giving up to $200,000 to one Egyptian startup as part of the company’s efforts to boost the entrepreneurial scene in the country. The 200 finalists were chosen by a panel of judges from over 4,000 applications. The judges, experts in varied fields including finance, private equity, management, marketing, medicine, IT, retail and more, hail from a variety of companies and organizations including the Amerian University in Cairo, Ericsson, Vodafone, Schneider, USAID, ICANN and Oracle. Selecting the finalists, each judge reviewed over 100 applications, rating them based on a predetermined set of criteria including innovation, social impact, market size, business model, team and presentation. After the preliminary assessment, applications went through a second round of judging, and the final selections were made.
Instructional System Design Concept Map Click map area for more information on ISD, such as Learning Environment, Design, or Knowledge. ID and ISD Models The main goal of an ID (Instructional Design) model or process is to construct a learning environment in order to provide the learners with the conditions that support the desired learning processes. ID models differ from an ISD (Instructional System Design) model in that ISD models are more broad in nature. Analysis Design Development or Production Implementation or Delivery Evaluations. Formative and Summative Evaluations Formative evaluations are embedded in each of the five phases for judging the value or worth of that process while the program activities are "forming" or happening. Instructional Design Templates Note: On some browsers you need to right-click the file to download the RTF (Rich Text Format) and Excel files to your hard drive. Once you have downloaded the template you can then view and edit them with just about any word processor or text editor, however, MS Office normally works best for keeping the original formatting. Analysis Templates (rtf) A number of templates for assessing training needs, including: System Overview Instrument Business Outcome Job List Instrument Job Description Instrument Task Inventory Instrument Task Survey Instrument Employee Survey Supervisor & Manager Training Survey Task Selection Instrument People, Data, Things Instrument Task Performance Measure Instrument Training Analysis Overview Report Course Evaluation (Word document) A guide for evaluation learning platforms. Training Estimator Spreadsheet (MS Excel) A spreadsheet for making rough estimates of training development time and costs. Lesson Plan Template (rtf) Presentation Template (rtf)
Mount Royal College - Curriculum Development and Instructional Design Certificate Program Curriculum An Instructional Design Strategy Template Methods of instruction are the domain of the instructional designer. In developing instructional designs, they need to develop designs on the basis of learner needs. To do so, they have to put aside the temptation to develop designs based on pizzazz, fun, successful designs by other designers, personal past design success and comfort, and the ease of design. This section provides an instructional strategy design template that can be applied for different types of learning. Adapted from Smith, P.L., & Ragan, T.J. (2005). Each phase has specific components. In the next section that describes the template in more detail, the examples provided suggest that the designer can either link the examples to a specific component or apply the activity to more than one component. Introduction Phase The introduction phase prepares the learner for the activity. Body Phase Conclusion Phase Assessment Phase < Return to Unit 1 Curriculum Menu