- Age Group13-15 years
- Course Duration8 hours
- Session Duration1 hour
- CompletionYes
- Sessions8 Sessions
- FrequencySelf-Paced
- Course Valid TillForever
About The Course
- There is an entrepreneur within each one of us, just waiting to be discovered. You are at your creative best in your teenage years, and it is the best time for you to start discovering your entrepreneurial strengths. Students who are exposed to the right entrepreneurial thinking and experiences go from being mere consumers of information to becoming creators and change makers and from being job seekers to future job creators.
- Every entrepreneurial journey starts with an IDEA!
- In this course, you will learn from seasoned entrepreneurs and discover the entrepreneur within yourself. You will understand what sets an entrepreneur apart from an employee. You will also take the first step on your own entrepreneurial journey and develop and pitch your very own First Business Idea.
- At the end of this course, you will begin to see a world full of opportunities and become adept at coming up with your own business ideas. You will also learn the frameworks and techniques to evaluate and develop your business ideas and identify your ideas’ unique value proposition.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is specifically designed for students aged 13–15 and will add tremendous value to their career paths and assist them in their aspiration to be future entrepreneurs, land corporate jobs or be in the civil services.
Course Objectives
The Entrepreneurship Essentials course will help you:
- Gain an understanding about Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Learn to identify business opportunities and generate business ideas
- Evaluate your business ideas using the Idea Funnel and DFV frameworks
- Use brainstorming techniques, such as SCAMPER and Six Thinking Hats
- Understand how to perform competitive analysis and identify Unique Selling Propositions (USPs)
- Create your own business idea pitch
Curriculum
Who Is an Entrepreneur?
- 00:20:00
Who Is an Entrepreneur?
- 00:12:00
Who Is an Entrepreneur? (Quiz)
- 00:15:00
Entrepreneur and Employee
- 00:16:00
Entrepreneur and Employee (Quiz)
Entrepreneur Success Stories
- 00:37:00
Entrepreneur Success Stories
- 00:10:00
Entrepreneur Success Stories (Quiz)
Entrepreneurial Mindset
- 00:08:00
Entrepreneurial Mindset (Part 1)
- 00:10:00
Entrepreneurial Mindset (Quiz 1)
- 00:06:00
Entrepreneurial Mindset (Part 2)
- 00:10:00
Entrepreneurial Mindset (Quiz 2)
Getting Ideas
- 00:15:00
Getting Ideas (Part 1)
- 00:14:00
Getting Ideas (Quiz 1)
- 00:15:00
Getting Ideas (Part 2)
- 00:12:00
Getting Ideas (Quiz 2)
Brainstorming with Six Thinking Hats
- 00:11:00
Brainstorming with Six Thinking Hats
- 00:12:00
Brainstorming with Six Thinking Hats (Quiz)
Idea Evaluation Using DFV and Idea Funnel
- 00:10:00
Idea Evaluation Using DFV
- 00:08:00
Idea Evaluation Using DFV (Quiz)
- 00:09:00
Idea Funnel
- 00:10:00
Idea Funnel (Quiz)
Identifying Your Value Proposition
- 00:07:00
Identifying Your Value Proposition
- 00:12:00
Identifying Your Value Proposition (Quiz)
Pitch Your Idea
- 00:07:00
Pitch Your Idea
- 00:12:00
Making a Pitch (Quiz)
Instructor
Sanjeeva Shivesh
Founder, The Entrepreneurship School; Co-Founder and Program Director, ThinkStartupSanjeeva Shivesh is a Serial Entrepreneur, the Founder of The Entrepreneurship School and Co-Founder and Program Director at ThinkStartup. Sanjeeva has served as a civil servant with the Government of India. Subsequently, he worked as Strategy Consultant with Booz & Co. at their London Office. His passion lies in teaching Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design Thinking. He has been Adjunct Professor at MDI Gurgaon, FMS and TERI University, besides teaching at Singapore Management University, IIM Rohtak, IIM Kashipur and IIT Delhi. He is an active panellist on economic affairs and policies on CNN News, India Today TV, Doordarshan and AIR. Sanjeeva is a B. Tech from IIT, Delhi and an MBA from the Cranfield School of Management, U.K.