Entrepreneurship - Certificate Class

Entrepreneurship
Certificate Program

Course Description:

The course will give the student the ability to evaluate business opportunities, to assess the skills needed by the business team, to calculate the resource requirements for the new venture, to identify appropriate sources of finance, and to present the business plan to private equity, venture capital, bank, and other sources of startup capital.

Who Should Attend:

Any manager who wants to be able to evaluate the business model of his or her enterprise division, or expert who wants to use the technical knowledge he or she has developed in years of study and business practice. It is designed to help the business manager stop working for other people and start declaring economic independence.

Course Overview:

Over five hundred eighty-eight thousand businesses started last year, while five hundred twenty-eight businesses closed. Only four point three million of the self-employed are minorities or women. With this high failure to success rate, successful entrepreneurs, of any race or sex, must learn to plan their enterprises to meet a market need, and to present their case to significant sources of new venture finance. The High Technology Entrepreneurship Certificate Program is designed to prepare your team for success in launching a business.
The course materials include current Internet references, current business publication article references, and two time-tested books. Exercises within the books, walk through each of the calculation and self-analysis steps needed in planning the business venture.

Learn To:

assess the viability of a new business concept or idea

identify the critical assumptions underlying a new business concept and the milestones in implementing the business concept

develop strategies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage for the new venture

understand the implications of the overall strategy for sales, marketing, finance, legal requirements, operations, human resources and other business functions and the interrelationships among the different functions

develop a business plan and startup scenario to facilitate the implementation of the business idea or concept

communicate effectively the strategic vision for the business and its strategies that will serve as a road map for initiating and growing the business

develop an understanding of your personal entrepreneurship strategy

Instructors:

William A. Price is an Attorney-at-Law in private practice and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship for Illinois Institute of Technology. Through his business law and entrepreneurship classes, Bill has taught graduate students in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business and Law how to source and negotiate venture and other finance for high technology and biotech deals.
Jerry R. Mitchell, a “serial entrepreneur,” as described by Fortune Magazine because of the many companies he has assisted in going public, brings 40 years of computer industry and business experience as salesman, industry marketing manager, director of sales and marketing, vice president of marketing and president/CEO to mentoring other entrepreneurs. Jerry is President of the Midwest Entrepreneurs Forum, board member of The Illinois High School Academic Decathlon Association and President/CEO of Jerry R. Mitchell and Assoc., Inc.

Entrepreneurship Schedule

Information & Registration:
To register or for additional information contact us by phone or email
Chicago 312-906-5632
Wheaton 630-682-6035
reif@iit.edu