What you'll learn:

ASU Startup School is a comprehensive and proven framework for developing ventures. Startup School is a series of facilitated workshops wherein entrepreneurs learn what they need to do in order to develop a successful venture.

Stage 1 of ASU Startup School is a valuable opportunity for all types of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinkers to advance their ideas into sustainable ventures, including small businesses, social enterprises, high-tech startups, corporate innovators, and community organizers.

Our goal is to help entrepreneurs find their path to delivering and capturing value.

Learning Objectives:

• Adopt and practice an entrepreneurial mindset. An entrepreneurial mindset is characterized by a positive attitude and outlook regarding the following activities:
• Handling ambiguity and new situations
• Focusing on serving end-users
• Being dedicated and persistent
• Analyzing opportunities and risk
• Trying new things and failing
• Problem-solving and viewing problems as opportunities
• Building relationships
• Being a leader
• Being a team member
• Understand, apply, and synthesize entrepreneurship terminology and the various components of the entrepreneurial process and mindset.
• Understand how to access and leverage resources available at Arizona State University and the broader community that may be used to support startup creation.
• Create a successful startup of any form (nonprofit organization, for-profit business, small business, technology startup, social enterprise, etc.) using knowledge and resources learned in Startup School.
• Create solutions to real-life problems by synthesizing new and existing information and resources using the entrepreneurial process and mindset.

Who is this course designed for:

Entrepreneurs