Business Planning Courses
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MyOwnBusiness.org
Course is free, with option to pay for textbooks and certification. As the website describes:
“My Own Business, Inc, (MOBI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to helping new businesses succeed in every community. Our course is geared toward the entrepreneur who wants to start his or her own business, and the individual who has an established small business and would like to see that business grow and expand. Most people fail in business because they make avoidable mistakes! This free course teaches you what those mistakes are and how to avoid them.”
Product Design and Development
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology FREE Downloadable Course in Product Design and Development covers all aspects of new product development, including examing market and technical feasibility of product manufacturing. Well worth undertaking if you are considering starting up a new business to support a new product.
Course Objectives
The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. The course is intended to provide you with the following benefits:
- Competence with a set of tools and methods for product design and development.
- Confidence in your own abilities to create a new product.
- Awareness of the role of multiple functions in creating a new product (e.g. marketing, finance, industrial design, engineering, production).
- Ability to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary tasks in order to achieve a common objective.
- Reinforcement of specific knowledge from other courses through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting.
- Enhanced team working skills.
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