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Oxford Saïd: Oxford Entrepreneurship: Venture Creation Programme

Explore the venture creation process and gain the skills to deliver a clear value proposition and leadership vision for your business idea.

Explore the venture creation process and gain the skills to deliver a clear value proposition and leadership vision for your business idea.

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Enroll by Apr 29, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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6 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Starts Apr 23, 2025
Enroll by Apr 29, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Whether it’s a startup with the potential to scale up, a niche business venture, or an initiative within a large corporation, launching a new enterprise can be challenging. But with the right skills and insights, businesses have a better chance of succeeding.

The Oxford Entrepreneurship: Venture Creation Programme is designed to support business owners at various stages of the entrepreneurial process. It offers practical guidance in your entrepreneurial journey, from identifying a market opportunity and developing a business model to learning how to launch and pitch your venture. You’ll examine the critical customer-facing and operational aspects of laying out a business model, as well as the activities related to launching a venture and achieving product-market fit. The course offers insight into how to best contribute your unique talents and skills and engage with the nuances of putting together a founding team.

Aimed at those planning or currently involved in the early stages of a new business venture, this course offers comprehensive guidance throughout the entrepreneurial journey. Aspiring or first-time entrepreneurs seeking to develop their business ideas will benefit from the support and feedback of like-minded professionals and leading faculty. Learners will gain essential skills for how to effectively present and prepare their venture as they take the next steps in their business. Intrapreneurs within an organization will learn to exploit new opportunities for value creation.

Course curriculum

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Identify and transform a business idea into a successful early-stage venture as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Identifying business opportunities

Module 2: Understanding your entrepreneurial talents

Module 3: Analyzing customers and markets

Module 4: Crafting a business model

Module 5: Launching a venture

Module 6: Pitching a venture

About the certificate

Craft a compelling presentation for your business concept and earn an official certificate of attendance from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the programme handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the programme.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

#4

The U.K.’s ranking among the top five best countries for entrepreneurship in the world.

U.S. News (2020).

#1

The main reason why businesses fail is because there’s no need in the market.

Small Biz Genius (Jun, 2023).

Why choose GetSmarter?

GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.