Overview
Stage 1 of ASU Startup School is a valuable opportunity for all types of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial thinkers to advance their ideas into sustainable ventures, including small businesses, social enterprises, high-tech startups, corporate innovators, and community organizers. Our goal is to help entrepreneurs find their path to delivering and capturing value.
About this course
Adopt and practice an entrepreneurial mindset. An entrepreneurial mindset is characterized by a positive attitude and outlook regarding the following activities:
- Handling ambiguity and new situations
- Focusing on serving end-users
- Being dedicated and persistent
- Analyzing opportunities and risk
- Trying new things and failing
- Problem-solving and viewing problems as opportunities
- Building relationships
- Being a leader
- Being a team member
- Understand, apply, and synthesize entrepreneurship terminology and the various components of the entrepreneurial process and mindset
- Understand how to access and leverage resources available at Arizona State University and the broader community that may be used to support startup creation
- Create a successful startup of any form (nonprofit organization, for-profit business, small business, technology startup, social enterprise, etc.) using knowledge and resources learned in Startup School
- Create solutions to real-life problems by synthesizing new and existing information and resources using the entrepreneurial process and mindset
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