KCL London - Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action

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Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action
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Overview

Improve your knowledge of entrepreneurship and discover how to plan, develop, nurture, and build a successful business

Duration	4 weeks
Total fee	₹4,450
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Beginner
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Credential	Certificate

Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action

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Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action
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Highlights

Earn a certificate from King's College London

Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Soft skills

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for refugees, displaced people and the communities supporting them in the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) region who wish to study an entrepreneurship or business related course at a university in English

This course will also be of interest to anyone looking to start their own business and develop their knowledge of entrepreneurship

It will be helpful for those looking to improve their English language vocabulary and communication skills in a business setting

What are the course deliverables?

Explain the different characteristics of an entrepreneur

Describe how you have come to know yourself better, and the role that you and your enterprise can play in wider society

Develop ideas from many different sources of inspiration and decide on a suitable idea to take forward to develop for this course

Improve an entrepreneurial idea to express more detail, including your business structure, target customer, and resource requirements

Summarise your own vision and mission statement for your enterprise

Identify how you might raise finance to develop your enterprise and develop your pitching skills to acquire finance and/or sales

Explore your own action plan for the future, thinking about the importance of short term and longer future planning. Test your idea as a minimum viable product

Produce your own self-development plan. Recognise, appreciate, and apply many different forms of feedback and resources in your entrepreneurial journey

More about this course

On this course, you'll enhance your understanding of business and improve your skills in entrepreneurship for university study and work.
You'll develop yourself as an entrepreneur by learning how to approach key stages of entrepreneurship, from coming up with a business idea to writing a business plan.
Using case studies of local businesses and entrepreneurship in the MENA region, you'll learn how to apply business concepts and ideas to different contexts.
You'll also practice pitching your business ideas and learn about developing your enterprise within an entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Paid certification course

Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action
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Curriculum

How to understand yourself as an entrepreneur, and create a self-development plan

Sources of business ideas and inspiration

The business idea and how to develop it, including: the business model canvas; the minimum viable product; the value of having a mentor; resource requirements; raising finance

Pitching skills and tips; communication and language skills

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, including leadership and management; using feedback for development; family business models; working in a team; customer service; networking’ marketing basics.

Putting plans into action: the action plan, thinking long term about your enterprise and using resources for continuous development.

Entrepreneurship: From Business Idea to Action
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Faculty details

Sabrina Mistry

Sabrina's main interests are business innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity. She holds an MSc in this area, and is nearing completion of her PhD.