GPCB599 - How to build a startup

Do you have an idea that you would like to explore and test in order to have a plan for a viable startup? Do you wish to enhance your employability skills for the startup world and beyond? Or do you want to simply further your understanding of what it takes to be innovative and entrepreneurial?

District 3 (D3) will guide you to the successful completion of Udacity’s “How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad course” through a hybrid of self-directed online learning and in-person group discussions over four weeks. See: https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245.

This facilitated learning experience will provide you with a proven framework for building a startup concept and help you produce a comprehensive plan for its next steps. Weekly interactive sessions will be facilitated by experienced D3 facilitators, who will keep you inspired and on track to take your ideas and skills further, following completion of the course.
 

The objective of Udacity’s “How to Build a Startup” course is to become aware of the business skills it takes to bring an idea from conception to market. This includes:
- Actively listening and engaging customers to find out what exactly they want in a product and how to deliver it to them
- Gathering, evaluating and using customer feedback to make a product, marketing, and business model stronger
- Engaging customers through the three phases of the customer relationship management lifecycle: get, keep, and grow
- Identifying key resources, partners, activities, and distribution channels required to deliver a product to customers
- Calculating direct and indirect costs for delivering a product