Welcome to our Self-Paced Entrepreneurship Learning Center!
Starting a new venture but don’t have much experience in innovation and entrepreneurship? You’ve come to the right place.
Tufts University’s Self-Paced Entrepreneurship Learning Center provides you with the concepts, frameworks and skillset needed to build a new venture from scratch. Feel free to go in order or start exploring any module at will.
Entrepreneurship 101: Building a new venture
Module 1: Entrepreneurship Fundamentals
Define your “why”, choose a problem to solve, build a founding team, and master entrepreneurship frameworks.
Module 2: Market and Customer
Choose a beachhead market to start with, build knowledge about your customer and understand their needs and goals
Module 3: Solution and Differentiation
Define your solution and value proposition, test for problem-solution fit, and ensure it is different and better than the alternative
Module 4: Go To Market Strategy
Develop buyer personas and map their buying process, and understand your sales funnel
Module 5: Finances, Risks, and Opportunities
Develop financial models, assess risks and opportunities, and explore ways to raise capital
Module 6: The Venture’s Journey
Adding to the team, forging a culture, address legal, finance and operations concerns, and build a toolkit for the future
Additional Resources
Educational Videos
View recorded Zoom videos from an entrepreneurial bootcamp held at DEC covering time tested entrepreneurial concepts
Self-Guided Accelerator
Follow the structure of our 10-week-long accelerator and make progress on your venture
Pitching resources
Learn to put forward your very best pitch
Templates
See our custom curation of templates for executive summaries (aka one pagers) and more