Startup Courses

Y Combinator

Startup School

42 reviews

Learn how to start a startup with YC’s free 8-week online course.

• Independent
• 10 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs

9 reviews

This course is for aspiring or active entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure funding for their company. This course will demystify key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs a guide to secure funding. Examine t…

• Coursera
• 20 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Startup Valuation Methods

644 ratings at Coursera

How do different types of investors think about an investment opportunity? What kind of securities and contracts do they offer? How should a company decide what is a "good deal"? This course is designed to introduce you to the challenges and pitfalls of…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Financing for Startup Businesses

195 ratings at Coursera

This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies for your startup company and dete…

• Coursera
• 6-7 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

University of New South Wales

How to Validate your Startup Idea

141 ratings at Coursera

Starting a new business begins with an idea that needs to evolve through experimentation, iteration and interactions with people. This course is for existing and potential entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance and support to make their ‘great idea’…

• Coursera
• 21 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Stanford;  Y Combinator

How to Start a Startup

17 reviews

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…

• Independent
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Why Scale a Startup?

If you want to find out how to begin to scale up a company, this course is for you! This course will guide you through all the key questions you need to ask yourself to prepare to scale up a startup, provide you with the necessary frameworks to begin th…

• Coursera
• 8-9 hours worth of material, 4 weeks long
• 27th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

École Polytechnique;  HEC Paris

Creating and Developing a Tech Startup

92 ratings at Coursera

This course will allow you to identify and evaluate opportunities for creating a tech business, and to better understand its principal issues on a human, technical, commercial, environmental and financial level. As such, you will obtain solid foundation…

• Coursera
• 11 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

KAIST

Design Thinking and Global Startup

96 ratings at Coursera

This course offers a systematic engineering design methodology: Stanford Design Thinking for preparing global startup. The course empathizes the whole Stanford design thinking process, "Empathy-Define-Ideation-Prototype-Test," for building a startup with…

• Coursera
• 7-8 hours worth of material, 6 weeks long
• 3rd Apr, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

How to Build a Startup

24 reviews

Learn what it takes to build a successful startup using the Customer Development process, where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather and iterate on feedback.

• Udacity
• 4 weeks long
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Microcredential

Startup Success: How to Launch a Technology Company in 6 Steps

Serial Entrepreneurs Michael Stonebraker and Andy Palmer share their years of start-up experience in six (not so) easy steps.

• edX
• 2-3 hours a week, 4 weeks long
• Paid Course

University of London International Programmes;  London Business School

How to Finance and Grow Your Startup – Without VC

445 ratings at Coursera

Who? 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. What? This course will introduce, and help you put to use in your startup, the five mod…

• Coursera
• 23 hours worth of material, 7 weeks long
• 21st Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Getting Started with Startups

This course describes what it means to be an entrepreneur and clarifies some of the distinguishing characteristics of technology entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial concepts, processes, & support systems are introduced from a holistic perspective. Methods…

• Coursera
• 40 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Forming, Funding, & Launching a Startup Company

This course starts with a close look at entrepreneurial finance, revenue models, and sources of startup funding. Learners will build a revenue model, create a Financial Plan for a new startup idea, and prepare an investor presentation for raising capital…

• Coursera
• 39 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Creating a Startup Company

The course starts by exploring entrepreneurial ecosystems and systems thinking. The Technology Adoption Life Cycle is introduced to help explain market dynamics and support developing business strategy. Market research concepts and tools are presented th…

• Coursera
• 34 hours worth of material, 5 weeks long
• 20th Mar, 2023
• Free Online Course (Audit)