Starting a startup involves hundreds of different activities. There’s a whole lot of time you and your co-founders will spend doing each of the following:
- Coming up with a good idea to try
- Researching your idea
- Finding a place in the market for your idea
- Filling paperwork and signing documents
- Testing your idea with the market you’ve chosen
- Turning your idea into a tangible product or service
- Hiring people
- Marketing and selling your product or service
- Raising dough to get more of your product or service into more hands
- Trying new ideas to capture more market share
- Trying new ideas because the old one(s) aren’t working as well
N.B. These can happen in any order.
There are probably hundreds of books covering each of these topics and many other activities I didn’t list. Given that you didn’t ask for online courses about specific parts of starting a startup, I’ll suggest three excellent online courses that are more “general” in scope.
These are online courses that give a general overview of key activities / good-to-know’s of starting a startup.
- How to Start a Business from Treehouse
The basics of what you should know if you’re interested in starting a business. Takes about three hours to cover and more time if you need to take notes (you should if you’re completely new to startups).
Costs $25/mo. to take courses at Treehouse, but there’s a 7-day trial during which you can easily finish this course. - How to Validate your Startup Idea from The University of New South Wales
Everyone’s got ideas. How do you know if yours is worth pouring sweat, tears, and money into? This course teaches you how to find that answer (by asking questions to important people—customers, investors, etc.—and by testing ideas with the market).
Cost: Free (but you can receive a certificate for $49, optional) - Entrepreneurship from University of Pennsylvania
This a four-course specialization focused on startups from Wharton. It’s relatively intense compared to the other two options and takes about 16 weeks to complete, but it’s well worth it if you’re serious about starting a startup. This course covers everything from ideation, to startup launch, to growth and finance. There’s also a capstone where the top scoring ideas are presented to venture capital (VC) firms.
Cost: $79/mo (free 7-day trial, but you’ll need to extend to complete the course)
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