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