Name: Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking & Action
Brand: University of California, Irvine
Availability: OnlineOnly
Rating: 4.6 (509 reviews)

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Success in business can be greatly enhanced with an understanding of key entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies solutions. This interactive course provides potential entrepreneurs with the knowledge of succeeding in an entrepreneurial opportunity. Topics include: how creativity, opportunity and feasibility are best evaluated; business strategies for new businesses; importance of a business plan; achieving success in a new business. At the end of the course students will have the skills and confidence to evaluate starting a business, in addition to becoming more enterprising in how they approach their roles should they decide to work in organizations. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Learn about the many faces of and contexts for entrepreneurship 2. Learn about the entrepreneurial process and how to manage it 3. Learn about what it takes to be an entrepreneur and your own potential to be one 4. Learn to recognize opportunities to generate and assess your own business idea 5. Explain the business planning process 6. Apply entrepreneurial approaches, concepts and methods to your own business idea 7. Learn about the operational issues in developing new business ventures...

Top reviews

Nov 7, 2015

I really enjoyed this class. It has given me serious motivation to start my own company. I liked being able to see an overview of the steps I need to take to start my business off on the right foot.

Apr 13, 2020

Very useful course to those who teaches entrepreneurship subject and those who take intiation to start business before what are the important inputs to analye the person

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By Bernhard K

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Nov 30, 2015

Nothing really new. Very good for newbies in the field. Short and easy to handle presentations and topics.

By Gio P

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Oct 18, 2015

Disappointing, not different from a class presentation, poor in content, lousy instructor

By Salih M

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Nov 23, 2025

I've completed around 30 courses on Coursera since 2019, and honestly this is the first time I'm dissatisfied with a course to this extent!!! (I took this single course not the full specialization) The quizzes were not clear, I struggled for around 2 or 3 days to solve the quiz of module 3 mainly the question on break-even point, even though I searched online but I couldn't find the correct answer among the options, I ended up just trying each time with a different answer, also the question about financial projections. but this is not the main issue why I'm not satisfied, the course really didn't teach a lot(compared to what any "COURSE" would do, the videos and reading material are just tooooo little, the concepts are touch too much on the surface that you'll end up in the course just knowing some terms like feasibility study, cash flow statement and maybe "maybe" some definitions, but nothing practically useful. To be honest I don't know what their objective is from this course! Yesterday I watched a video on youtube that is one hour long and it was way more useful than this. I don't really want to disappoint or disregard the efforts of whoever contributed to this course but this is my honest opinion, and I'll never recommend anyone thinking of starting a startup taking this course! For me a good course is one that makes me use my mind and hopefully challenges it, through exercises that - ideally - reflects why I'm taking the course, or the least connect me with fellows where I can engage with discussions and build my network!

By Ravi C

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Nov 19, 2020

Trying to complete the 1st week and can’t pass the quizz because every answer that I put for the 1st 2 questions are always wrong no matter the combination used of right answers

By Blanka T

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Sep 18, 2015

I did not conclude the course because of the fundamentally wrong guidance that this lecturer promotes. Today we know more advanced and useful methodologies for entrepreneurship.