Welcome to Start-up World

An introduction to starting a successful scalable business.

Who will benefit from this program?

Anyone with an interest in scalable entrepreneurship

Considering entrepreneurship

Individuals considering a career in entrepreneurship who would like to learn more about what it takes to become a successful, scalable entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurs

Individual entrepreneurs or teams at the beginning of their start-up journey who want to develop their product-market fit, business plan and financial plan.
Early-stage start-ups

Start-ups raising their first or second round of funding who want to improve their investor materials, accelerate their growth and pitch to investors.

What will I learn in this program?

A short introduction to our entrepreneurship programs

You will have an opportunity to sample some of the content from our full-length entrepreneurship courses and programs. You can view 7 videos and read 7 articles that are included in our regular programs. These samples should give you a flavor of the approach to learning that we take - based on our real-world experience in the SEA enterprise ecosystem for the last 20 years. Topics covered include risk and return, entrepreneurial mindset, what makes a successful entrepreneur and why luck does not matter.

Course curriculum

1

Welcome to the course!
- A message from the instructor
- About the instructor
- Connecting to my network
- About Expara
- Reading: Can entrepreneurship be taught?
- Reading list for entrepreneurs
2

Understanding risk and return
- What is the relationship between risk and return?
- Risk and return
- Reading: Risk and return
3

Welcome to start-up world
- What is an entreprenur?
- What is a scalable business?
- Why become an entrepreneur?
- Starting up in a downturn
- What is an entrepreneur?
- What is a scalable business?
- How to build a scalable business?
- Reading - Two types of entrepreneurs
- Why become an entrepreneur?
- Obstacles to entrepreneurship
- Reading - What makes a successful entrepreneur?
- Reading - Should I work first or just start a company?
- Reading - Why entrepreneurship
- Reading - How important is luck in entrepreneurial success?
- Reading: Is an economic crisis a good time to start or pivot a business?
4

This could be you
- This could be you
- This could be you