Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is designed for those of you who have, or desire to have, your own business. Emphasis is on successfully creating and sustaining a competitive advantage in starting, managing and growing a small business. This program focuses on the preparation needed for small business ownership. 

Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the growth of the U.S. economy. It is a process through which individuals identify opportunities, allocate resources, and create value. This creation of value is often through the identification of unmet needs or through the identification of opportunities for change. 

Do you want to start a business? The Business Daily News defines an entrepreneur as “a person who identifies a need and starts a business to fill it.” Entrepreneurs are innovators, a source of new ideas, goods, services or expanding on what’s existing. One risk associated with starting a new business often comes from lack of preparation; is it a viable idea?

The Entrepreneurship Certificate will provide you with the key areas of consideration to ensure you understand the complexities of business startup. You need to manage and market your business, there are courses for that. You may have an employee or even contractors, you need to know a bit about human resources and business law. How will you finance your business? There’s a course for that too. The Entrepreneurship program will open your eyes to what is required to start a new business.

What’s the Job Outlook for an Entrepreneur?

According to the Small Business Administration, there were 33.2 million startups in 2022. Retail dominated at 15.5% of new business, many operate as e-commerce. The number of businesses continuing operations drops considerably over time: Four out of five make it through the first year, while seven out of 10 survive the first two years.

_{Citation: Fortunly – The 21 Most Important Startup Statistics for 2022}

The following positions are similar occupations according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

• Sales Managers
• Top Executives
• Financial Managers