Entrepreneurship: Do your Venture

By Prof Suresh Bhagavatula | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

Learners enrolled: 2940

This hands-on, action oriented business and management course will introduce you to a systematic, scientific and an easy process of testing your ideas and opportunities you envision.

You will learn the “DO your Venture” ideology, which will teach you common paths entrepreneurs take when launching their own venture. You will also learn the tools and techniques for generating ideas and then test your ideas in the field and gather feedback.

What you'll learn

How to integrate a strong action philosophy in developing entrepreneurial ideas, focusing around the "DO Your Venture" ideology
Common paths taken by successful entrepreneurs
Pre-venture idea creation and evaluation
How to rapidly develop and test ideas by gathering quick customer feedback
Tools to successfully launch your venture including Lean Canvas

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	6 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	31 Aug 2020
End Date :	02 Oct 2020
Enrollment Ends :	20 Sep 2020
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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to DO Your Venture

You will learn about Do Philosophy, myths of entrepreneurship, equifinality, and types of entrepreneurs

Week 2: Opportunities and Idea Generation

You will be introduced to multiple toolkits for Idea Generation, Antecedents Of Opportunities and Jobs To Be Done Framework

Week 3: Idea Validation and Evaluation

Introduction to importance of Idea Evaluation and also tips from entrepreneurs and mentors on Idea Validation

Week 4: Lean Canvas

You will learn about traditional Business Plan versus Lean Canvas model and how to use effectively use Lean Canvas to document your venture progress.

Week 5: Effectuation

Introduction to effectuation and how effectuation principle helps in entrepreneurial intent and action

Instructor bio

Prof Suresh Bhagavatula

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

Prof Suresh is passionate about teaching entrepreneurship and has been associated with NSRCEL (http://www.nsrcel.org) at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore since 2007 where he has been interacting with many different types of entrepreneurs, but mostly operating within the technology domain. His interest in entrepreneurship has genesis in his formative experiences with helping Women Entrepreneurs help set up micro-ventures in Kenya while pursuing his Masters. These experiences have set him on a life-long pursuit of understanding the determinants of entrepreneurial success, and more importantly entrepreneurial failure. He hails from Vizag, did his Bachelors in Engineering from Shivaji University, pursued a Masters from University of Flensburg, Germany and earned his PhD from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. At a personal level, he enjoys traveling, knowing more about traditional arts and crafts and biking around the verdant IIM Bangalore campus during his free time!