The College of Business wants to help aspiring entrepreneurs get a jump start on their business ideas.
UCCS will offer an online course, the Practical Entrepreneurship Program, in coordination with the Business StartUp Institute, Colorado Springs. The program features curriculum developed and presented by Tom Duening, El Pomar Chair of Business and Entrepreneurship, and director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.
“This program will further our vision of building successful futures for our stakeholders who are interested in starting their own businesses,” Venkat Reddy, dean, College of Business, said.
The Practical Entrepreneurship Program consists of 21 lessons delivered via a digital chalkboard providing video, illustrations, templates, downloadable attachments and learning tools. The content of the program is arranged around three core areas: developing a business plan, launching the business, and growing and planning an exit.
A list of lessons is available at http://www.uccs.edu/~business/onlineprograms.html. Individual lessons are $29. The entire21-lesson program can be purchased for $299.
“We wanted to make this non-credit program available at a reasonable price so that beginning entrepreneurs could beat the learning curve and succeed with their first startup business,” Duening said. “I share my experiences and what I’ve learned through years of research and teaching.”
While a college graduate student, Duening launched his first business in 1984 and has started seven businesses in his career. He has written 12 books on business, management and entrepreneurship.
The Business StartUp Institute is a subsidiary of Businesses2Learn, LLC, a Colorado Springs-based company founded in 2009 by entrepreneur and inventor Jim Holley. Holley realized that the many lessons he learned in building his consumer product company would be valuable to other aspiring entrepreneurs.
— Jana Hyde
Sounds like a great course I would love to hear how the students get on. When I started as an entrepreneur I thought I could do it without any education but soon learnt that there are business skills that can be taught and will help an entrepreneur succeed quicker with a lot less mistakes with the basic business fundamentals.