Overview
The challenge of starting and running a business is immense: translate your product or service into reality while designing the entire business ecosystem within which your ideas and your team can thrive. What transforms a good idea, service, or product into a good business is a deep understanding of sales, marketing, taxes and accounting, legal and HR, operations, infrastructure, and a solid framework for future innovation. The Certificate in Entrepreneurship is a rapid and high-impact education in all the nuts and bolts of running a successful business.
Who Should Pursue This Certificate
If you’re a small- or medium-sized business owner or you want to launch a new business, this program is designed for you.
Benefits
Our Certificate in Entrepreneurship teaches all the fundamental aspects of running a business and exposes participants to Seattle’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. We focus on Lean Business principles to empower business owners and entrepreneurs just starting out in all aspects of starting and operating a company, including:
- Best practices in legal, tax, corporate structures, infrastructure, organizational structure, and design
- Application, testing everything from the creation of an online presence to pitching company ideas to actual investors and guest lecturers
- Leadership and the role of innovation as a business grows
Program Details
Length: 2 Quarters (20 Weeks)
Attendance: Thursdays from 6pm-9pm
Start Date: Thursday, September 28
Cost: $2,400
Location: SPU Campus
Questions? Talk to an enrollment coach.
What You’ll Learn
The Certificate in Entrepreneurship teaches you all the nuts and bolts of running a thriving business. The program will equip you to implement Lean Business principles for a range of different business and individual needs with consideration of the following:
Formation, Legal, and HR
Sales and Marketing
Tax and Accounting
Operations and Infrastructure
Leadership and Innovation
A variety of industry tools to produce high-quality analysis of your business efforts for continuous improvement
Program Schedule & Timeline
Length of certificate program: 2 quarters (20 weeks)
Start date: Thursday, September 28, 2017
Attendance: 1 evening class per week: Thursdays from 6pm-9pm (Thanksgiving week off)
Instructor: Taylor Black (Operations Analyst at Intellectual Ventures: Invention Science Fund, Partner at Fizzy Inc.) Read an interview with Taylor.
Location: Seattle Pacific University Campus
The Certificate in Entrepreneurship is comprised of two courses:
Fall Quarter 2017: Entrepreneurship I (10 weeks)
Winter Quarter 2018: Entrepreneurship II (10 weeks)
The course is structured to build competency areas (Client Management, Content Management, Inbound Lifecycle, Tool, Role, Group/Team, and Presentation). Course work will be taught through:
- Lectures and Guest Lectures
- Individual & Group Activities
- Exercises
- Demonstrations
- Readings
Admission
There are no formal prerequisites required for registration. To enroll, click below to be taken to Seattle Pacific University’s secure continuing education enrollment site.
Program Cost: $1,300/quarter OR $2,400 for the full certificate paid prior to the Fall Quarter start date ($400 savings)
Blog & Resources
Interviews from the field, notes from instructors, and resources to equip skill building