Course Description
Language of Instruction:English|Category: Business Startups: Business & Professional
“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.”
- Alfred Sheinwold
This holds true especially for new business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking to invest in a new business. On one hand, starting a new business is a great opportunity in today’s booming market scenario and on the other, it involves great amount of risks, especially initially. This course trains you about these inherent risks and how to cope with them successfully.
Hear and learn from the failure and success stories of well known entrepreneurs and see how they converted failure to success!
Designed to give you useful tricks and tips on business growth, this course enables you to learn by knowing the real stories of real businessmen and entrepreneurs who made big.
A LIVE Interactive Online Session personally designed for you will also include time to answer your questions.
What can you look forward in this course:
- Basics of how to search for the business idea
- How to evaluate the idea and business plan
- How to choose the best employees for your business
- Understanding about the business and start-up
- Opportunity to ask questions from experienced entrepreneur
- Opportunity to share and to get ideas about business
Add-on to the course : After the end of course you receive emails with start-up ideas and updates for one month!
What’s in the course:
- 1 LIVE interactive online class + Access to class recording
- 2 videos + 1 PPT + 1 Word Doc + 1 PDFs
- 2 online tests to asses your performance
Course outline:
- Main questions before starting business
- Are you ready to start your business
- Plus and minus of starting business
- Ways to find money for start-up
- Business structures
- Ideas for business
- Name your business
- Business plan
- Buy or start a business
- Workplace
- People at your start-up
- Initial costs
- Tax
- Managing your business
- After start-up
About the instructor:
Ekaterina Shirshikova has been researching and teaching in this area for 7+ years. Her experience as well as highly interactive and creative way of teaching with examples has benefited 1000s of entrepreneurs till date.
Qualifications:
- Master of Business Administration with Distinction from The University of Wales, Singapore, Jan 2011, Dissertation topic “Factors affecting university spin-off formation in India”
- Graduate Diploma in Management with Distinction Exeter University, UK, July 2009
- Specialized in World economy, Achievement an ‘Excellent’ grade for completing a Final Project on ‘Consumer behavior in online environment’
- Diploma in Management of organization from National Open University of St. Petersburg, Russia, April 2008
- Certificate of Business Ethics (2010)
- Certificate of completion of Practical Seminar in Business Planning (2006)
- Research - real estate in India, Customer behaviour online in UK and in Singapore, Faculty satisfaction in India, University spin-off in India
She lives in Israel.