Evaluate the potential success and failure of your own business opportunity

When launching a startup, what does success look like – and how can you foresee failure?

On this entrepreneurship course, you’ll have the opportunity to find out the reasons why entrepreneurs fail and identify the key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.

You’ll have the chance to learn how to consider business startup innovation and entrepreneurship in different contextual environments by analysing startup success in different entrepreneurial environments, such as the content of a developing country and transition economies.

You’ll also get the opportunity to evaluate the potential success and failure of your own business opportunity developed in the previous course.

How to learn from failure

If you’re looking at how to start a business, you’ll need to know the importance of failure.

You’ll take an in-depth look at entrepreneurial success and failure, explore business failure statistics and get to understand why startups fail and what failure looks like.

Discover the key to new business success

What’s the single biggest reason that startups succeed? The course will examine this question in detail.

You’ll look at what makes an entrepreneur succeed or fail, consider different business environments and economies, look at case studies and explore the business success and failure grid.

You’ll also ask the fundamental question: is the entrepreneur ultimately responsible for a startup’s success or failure?

What topics will you cover?

Introduction to business failure
Internal and external causes of failure
Likelihood of failure amongst start-ups
Indicators of business success
Exploration of different entrepreneurial environments

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Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Identify the various causes of business failure and success
Apply knowledge of business failure and success to different innovative and entrepreneurial environments
Identify strategies for business success

Who is the course for?

This ExpertTrack is designed for anyone interested in applying entrepreneurship principles to their daily lives.

It will be of particular interest to people in business development, recruitment and business management roles looking to take their career to the next level.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured gold in the UK Government’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and is University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

Established
1992
Location
Coventry

About this ExpertTrack

Gain expert knowledge in developing and evaluating your own business opportunity in a range of entrepreneurial environments.

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