New Venture Creation for Innovators
An online course providing a practical framework for identifying, evaluating, and developing the commercial potential of your innovation.
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Build Entrepreneurial Self-Awareness
Learn to Evaluate Early-stage Innovation-based Businesses
Tell your Innovation's Commerical Story
Templates for Modeling, Architecting, and Story-Telling
Create A New Business With Your Innovation
New Venture Creation for Innovators is for anyone seeking to commercialize an innovation or to start their own innovation-based business. This includes
scientists, engineers, physicians, and technologists; students, faculty, and staff at research institutions; and even home-based inventors.
This course provides you, the innovator, with a practical set of tools for evaluating, developing, and communicating the commercial potential of your innovation.
Six Information-packed Learning Modules
Each module contains multiple sessions covering all stages of commercializing an innovation, from mindset to operationalizing a new company.
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Think like an entrepreneur
Mental models of entrepreneurship and exercises to help you clarify your entrepreneurial objectives.
Finding and Managing Opportunities
find good ideas
How to find good business ideas and the power of product/market fit. Learn to balance and advance multiple commercialization opportunities in parallel.
Due Diligence Framework
IS this innovation valuable and is it worth the effort to commercialize?
Learn tools for conducting a detailed evaluation of the commercial potential of a business opportunity.
New Venture Architecture
design your future business now
Project planning, financial modeling, and ownership models for your business.
NEW VENTURE Storytelling
communicate your innovation's valUE
Condense all you've learned so far into telling the story of your innovation or venture. Learn to use different storytelling tools for different audiences and settings.
New Venture Construction
Pull it all together and get going
Go from thinking, planning, and talking about your venture, to actually building it.
What Our Students Are Saying
This class was incredibly well organized and had so much information! Each class was invaluable and really helped me solidify my new
business. Terry was amazing[...]! Very impressed and I highly recommend to anyone wanting to start a company!
This was truly eye-opening experience for myself, a total novice about the entrepreneurship and the business world. Only in 6 weeks, I feel l learned so much from this workshop led by Dr. Russell. The materials that he put together and shared with us are extremely helpful (I should review those again). Overall, I highly recommend this to some other faculty member like me who is interested in delving into the startup with their ideas. I benefited it so much.
The New Venture Creation for Innovators Course was extremely insightful. A lot of times you are creating a business, its easy to get so caught in the product & idea that you forget about the business or personal aspects. I feel as if this program was definitely the eye opener for me.
Your Instructor
Terry Russell, PhD
Terry is the Managing Director of Interface Ventures, a venture studio building companies in healthcare, energy, and critical infrastructure security. Over his career he has co-founded, financed, and led multiple technology-based startups. He has advised US and foreign government agencies, universities, and corporations on new venture creation. Terry has a PhD in Physics from Boston University and conducted his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. He is an active mentor and educator in the startup community, teaching at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.
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