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How To Quit Your Job & Start A Business

Take the Leap from Employment to Entrepreneurship
Rating: 3.5 out of 53.5 (1 rating)
36 students
Created by Robin Wang
Last updated 11/2014
English
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What you'll learn

  • Determine if entrepreneurship is right for you and how to prepare for your journey
  • Select the right options for funding your business and taking money out
  • Increase your odds for success by understanding, managing and mitigating the risks involved.
  • Develop a 10 step action plan for quitting your job and starting a business.

Requirements

  • Have an idea or desire to start a business.

Description

Starting a business can be an exciting, soul-fulfilling endeavor providing entrepreneurs the means to center their lives around their dreams, talents and passions. But quitting a steady job to pursue a risky venture can be daunting. This course will chart a map for aspiring entrepreneurs on how to begin their journey.

Take The Leap from Employment to Entrepreneurship

  • Determine if entrepreneurship is right for you.
  • Increase your odds of success and reduce the risks.
  • Uncover what you need to know about money: putting it in and getting it out.
  • Develop a 10 step action plan for becoming an entrepreneur.

Launch Your Business On the Right Foot: Be Prepared For the Journey Ahead

This course is designed specifically for aspiring entrepreneurs who have an idea for starting a business but don’t know what to do next or how to start. It charts a course for beginning your entrepreneurial journey: how to begin, what to expect, how to prepare, and connects you to resources (many free!) that can help you along the way. It also covers some topics that many other “how to start a business” courses don’t touch upon: the personal considerations of starting a business.

Developed by Robin Wang, a 20+ year business owner and veteran of several new ventures, this course incorporates many of the lessons learned (from both his successes and failures) so that you can make that leap to entrepreneurship with greater confidence, less risk, and improved odds. This does NOT cover the nuts and bolts of starting a business like preparing financial forecasts, developing a launch strategy, or writing a business plan. Rather it lays a solid foundation so that you are much better prepared should you one day take a start-up business course.

Course Content and Overview

This course contains 20+ lectures on a wide variety of related topics centered on transforming your idea into a real, tangible business. It is designed for individuals who have no experience with business (let alone starting one) and is industry agnostic. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you want to open up a bakery, become a freelancer, or launch the next Facebook, Apple or Tesla.

It is designed with a very pragmatic and action oriented approach as there is not much in the form of academic theory or principles. Rather, most of the content comes from lessons learned and experiences garnered on “street of life.”

By the end of this course you’ll have much more clarity around your business idea, increased confidence in talking to others about your new venture desires, and have a solid plan for moving forward.

Testimonials From the In-Person Course:

"Robin gave us great information and a lot of resources to go to for more info. He really spells out what it will be like to be an entrepreneur, so we can decide for ourselves whether it is right for us."

"Great opportunity to explore whether you have what it takes and gives an introduction to what to expect. Then pushes you to the next steps of making your dreams a reality and provides the necessary tools. Highly recommended!"

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for aspiring entrepreneurs that have an idea, but do not know where to go from there. It provides a firm foundation of knowledge and skills and helps entrepreneurs plan for their own entrepreneurial journey.
  • This course is relevent for any type of business in any type of industry: from freelancers to service to retail to hi-tech
  • This course does not cover the nuts and bolts of actually starting a business (e.g. creating an initial marketing plan or launch strategy). There are plany of other, great resources for that.
  • Starting a successful venture takes a lot of planning, persistence, and development, this course is NOT for those that want to quit their job and launch a business in 24 hours.

Course content

6 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 39m total length

  • Preview01:52
  • Preview03:54

  • Preview03:28
  • Preview04:06
  • Employee vs Entrepreneur
    04:31
  • Giving Entrepreneurship A Try
    05:01
  • Go Solo or Partner?
    07:24

  • Understanding, Managing & Mitigating Risk
    05:46

  • Funding & Capital Fundamentals
    10:02
  • Putting Money In: Making the Investment
    08:26
  • Taking Money Out
    04:43
  • Why Businesses Fail
    2 pages

  • The Start-Up Process
    04:46
  • Step 1: Put It On Paper To Craft A Business Model
    01:51
  • Step 2: Talk, Research & Validate Your Idea
    02:52
  • Step 3: Write a Business Plan OUTLINE
    02:23
  • Step 4: Assess & Improve Business Skills
    01:28
  • Step 5: Put Your Personal Life in Order: Money, Relationships, Time
    03:14
  • Step 6: Create Your Employment Transition Plan
    06:29
  • Step 7: Research Funding Options
    07:18
  • Step 8: Get a Support Network
    03:54
  • Step 9: Set Up Your Business
    01:48
  • Step 10: Play Minor League Games
    01:15

  • Some Parting Thoughts & Final Advice
    01:10

Instructor

Robin Wang
Helping Entrepreneurs Achieve Happiness
Robin Wang
  • 3.5 Instructor Rating
  • 1 Review
  • 36 Students
  • 1 Course

Robin Wang has been involved with early stage businesses and a business owner for over 20 years. In that time, he has experienced many of the highs and the lows that entrepreneurship has to offer. Earlier in his career, he left a promising career at a Fortune 50 company to join a new venture only to close up shop 9 months later. Later, he joined another start-up where he contributed to the prospectus for a successful IPO on the Paris Stock Exchange. More recently, he sold his media business promoting sustainable lifestyles after owning it for 10 years. Today, Robin teaches at several early and mid-stage business accelerators and has been an active advisor to many new businesses and entrepreneurs across many different industries.

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