Best 3 Courses for Entrepreneurs - FREE

Best 3 Courses for Entrepreneurs - FREE from Stanford University ,University of London International Programmes , London Business School and Wesleyan University

1. How to Start a Startup

provider Stanford University and Y Combinator  with Sam Altman

CS183B is a class we’re teaching at Stanford. It’s designed to be a sort of one-class business course for people who want to start startups.

Videos of the lectures, associated reading materials, and assignments will all be available here. There will be 20 videos, some with a speaker or two and some with a small panel. It’ll be 1,000 minutes of content if you watch it all.

We’ll cover how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more.

You can’t teach everything necessary to succeed in starting a company, but I suspect we can teach a surprising amount. We’ve tried to take some of the best speakers from the past 9 years of Y Combinator dinners and arrange them in a way that will hopefully make sense.

We’re doing this because we believe helping a lot of people be better at starting companies will be good for everyone. It will hopefully be valuable even for people who don’t want to start startups.

Talks like these have really helped Y Combinator founders create their companies. We hope you find it helpful too!

To get this course click on the link :  How to Start a Startup

2. How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

provider University of London International Programmes and London Business School  with John Mullins



If you’re an entrepreneur at any stage of your journey, or even an aspiring one, and you need money to start or grow your business, this course is for you.

This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five models through which your customers can – and will, if you ask them! – fund your business. These five time-tested models have been put to use by entrepreneurial superstars like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and more. Sadly, though, the five models are rarely talked about and not widely understood. Until now! The five models will be brought to life by the real-world stories of an inspiring collection of incredibly creative entrepreneurs from around the world – including successes and failures – through a series of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with founders and others, and investors, too.

Introduction: Why this course?

A widely-held notion in entrepreneurial circles is that the way to start and grow a thriving business is to come up with a great “idea”, write a great business plan, raise capital from angels or VCs, flawlessly execute the plan, and (Voila!) get rich! But it hardly ever happens that way. In fact, the vast majority of fast-growing companies never raise any venture capital. How do they do it, and how can you do it? This MOOC holds the answer. So let's get going!

Module 1: Why taking venture capital is a bad idea

Welcome to Module 1! As you can see by the title of this first module, I hope to convince you in this chunk of the course that seeking (and taking) money from an angel or VC investor, at least early in the life of your venture, is an exceedingly bad idea. Here we go!

Module 2: Matchmaker models

Welcome to Module 2! In this module we're going to focus on matchmaker models (sometimes called marketplaces - eBay, Airbnb, and Uber and the like) and how you can put them to work in your business. We'll see examples of both successes and failures and, as in Module 1, we'll get several perspectives other than mine, including that of a VC investor who knows this kind of business intimately. Ready? Let's go!

Module 3: Pay-in-advance models

Welcome to Module 3! In this module we'll see that taking a problem-solving perspective will be useful as we look at how to put pay-in-advance models to work in your business. You're also going to learn from another failure story, this one in India - from rags to riches and back to rags again - as well as travel to Latin America to get the lay of the land there. And you'll see that social entrepreneurs can use customer-funded models, too, even one tackling a problem as challenging as youth literacy! Here we go!

Module 4: Subscription models

Welcome to Module 4! In this module we'll dig into the economics of subscription models, while exploring the key building blocks that underlie many other kinds of e-commerce models, too. Because subscription models have been, in my view, over-hyped, you're going to hear about a handful of failure stories in this module, along with the story of a fast-growing online wine business that's put a subscription model to work in a novel way. Are you ready for this one? Let's go! John

Module 5: Scarcity models

Welcome to Module 5! In this module, we're going to look at the most counter-intuitive of the five models: the scarcity model. You'll get the story of a fashion retailer that's making life difficult for others in its industry, you'll get an extensive advice-laden interview with an entrepreneur who used scarcity to his benefit, and we'll travel to India to explore today's funding environment there. Let's go!

Module 6: Service-to-product models

Welcome to Module 6! In this module, we're going to hear from an entrepreneur who started with nothing in 2003 and sold his business less than 8 years later for nearly $100 million. We'll also hear from his partner, whose entry into the business midway into its journey raised its sights, and from a growth capital investor who backed the business in its later days without actually putting any capital into the business. Why? The customer-funded business didn't need their money! The three sides of a deal - a very special story that will surely inspire you. Here we go!

Module 7: Putting a customer-funded model to work in your business

Welcome to Module 7! In this final module we're going to draw the learning of this entire MOOC together and get started on implementing one or more of the five customer-funded models in your business. And you're going to hear an interview with someone who can get you up to speed in understanding customers well enough that you can get to what is called product-market fit - sooner instead of later! Even better, I'm going to tee up some final questions to get you started on what I hope will be a customer-funded journey that takes you wherever you'd like to go. I'm looking forward to wrapping things up and setting you off on your journey!

To get this course click on the link :  How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

3.How to Change the World

provider Wesleyan University  with Michael Roth


How can we use the things we share in common to address some of the most challenging problems facing the world? This course examines issues concerning poverty, the environment, technology, health care, gender, education and activism to help us understand better how to initiate positive change.

Syllabus

What are Social Goods? From the Commons to Moral Revolutions
Discussion about what our social good is, how we define it and how it can be sustainably used.

Poverty and Development

Discussion about poverty and the relationship of poverty to philanthropy and to foreign aid, actions taken to mitigate the effects of poverty, of major theorists and economists working in this area and , also, a new approach to this subject through randomized experimentation.

Climate Change and Sustainability

Discussion about political and economic ramifications of climate change, including how to think big about sustainability

Disease and Global Health Care

Discussion about health care and poverty, considering major challenges that disease presents around the world and the global role of healthcare

Women, Education and Social Change

Discussion of gender issues and the upward mobility of women, across business and education.

Looking Back, Looking Foward

Reflections on where we have been and where we are going

To get this course click on the link : How to Change the World