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Trailer for Startup-Journey: Geschäftsmodell erstellen
General Course Information
The language of the videos is mostly German, subtitles are available in
English. For the translated version please activate the English
subtitles.
Content
Course Content
There are
many people with many ideas, which are just waiting to be implemented and to
create a new company/startup. The path from the initiation of an idea to its
implementation in a business model raises many questions. Entrepreneurial
thinking and acting is an obligatory prerequisite for founding a company. The
main content of this course is the generation of a business model to be used
for your own idea in order to deal with some important business issues. Therefore,
basic knowledge and methods as well as their handling are imparted to have
knowledge about the creation at the end of the course.
Course Goals
The participants get an overview of helpful methods for their start-up project and are able to create a business model for their own start-up idea. Specific learning objectives are:
- I know what a business model framework or business model is.
- I can illuminate my business idea with learned (creativity) methods from the customer's perspective in order to adapt it even better to my (future) customers.
- I am able to identify the desired customer benefit for my business idea with the help of learned methods and to work out the Unique Selling Point (USP).
- I am able to create a business model (canvas) for my own idea.
Previous Knowledge
No special
requirements; possibly your own founding idea.
Course Procedure
The course
consists of 8 units of which 2 videos are offered weekly. An important step in
the foundation process is the creation of a business model. In this course, you
will learn what a business model is and how to create one. Additionally,
elements and methods are explained step-by-step, which result in the business
model at the end. The focus is on the lighting of customer benefit, the reason
why customers want to consume or purchase the product or service.
Certificate
For actively participating in the course you will receive an automatic confirmation of participation (certificate) which includes your username, the course title, course duration as well as the hours required to complete the course. We want to point out that this certificate merely confirms that the user answered at least 75% of the self-assessment questions correctly.
Licence
This work is licensed under a CC BY-ND 4.0.
The MOOC can be completed at the TU Graz as part of a course entitled "MOOC zu "Start-Up Journey: Geschäftsmodell erstellen"" (course number 372.008) which can be used as a freelance or elective subject according to the curriculum and is therefore also provided with an EC. For crediting of the course, it is necessary to be a student at TU Graz and to follow the instructions for crediting according to the course description in TUGonline.
Important note: Please register for the MOOC with your eduID in any case. This is absolutely necessary for the issue of a certificate.
Course Instructor
Martin Glinik
Martin Glinik is a university project assistant at Graz University of Technology and leads the Entrepreneurship course together with colleagues at the Institute of General Management and Organization. He is also involved in research projects dealing with the teaching of entrepreneurial skills. His dissertation project and research interests lie in the areas of business models, entrepreneurship and sustainability.
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