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    • Status: Free
      Free
      U

      Universitat de Barcelona

      The entrepreneur's guide for beginners

      Skills you'll gain: Entrepreneurship, Market Opportunities, Business Planning, Lean Methodologies, Business Modeling, New Business Development, Business Strategies, Project Finance, Fundraising, Value Propositions

      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      510 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: Free
      Free
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      The State University of New York

      Launch Your Online Business

      Skills you'll gain: Branding, Brand Strategy, Media Production, Entrepreneurship, Content Creation, Marketing, Web Content, Copywriting, Business Modeling, Public Relations, Presentations, Customer Engagement, Promotional Strategies, Value Propositions, E-Commerce, Web Design and Development, Business Planning, Marketing Strategies, Content Strategy, Customer Analysis

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      825 reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Michigan State University

      How to Start Your Own Business

      Skills you'll gain: Financial Statements, Value Propositions, Business Planning, Design Thinking, Ideation, Financial Accounting, Innovation, Income Statement, Entrepreneurship, Brainstorming, Customer Acquisition Management, Business Modeling, Product Development, Balance Sheet, Market Opportunities, Verification And Validation, Creative Thinking, Lean Methodologies, Open Mindset, Resource Management

      4.5
      Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      1.2K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Tableau Learning Partner

      Tableau Business Intelligence Analyst

      Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Exploratory Data Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Ad Hoc Reporting, Data Governance, Data Ethics, Tableau Software, Business Analysis, Data Visualization Software, Data Warehousing, Business Metrics, Dashboard, Statistical Visualization, Extract, Transform, Load, Data Analysis, Spatial Data Analysis, Data Quality, Data Management, Descriptive Statistics, Interactive Data Visualization

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      936 reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • U

      University of Pennsylvania

      Business Foundations

      Skills you'll gain: Operations Management, Return On Investment, Operational Efficiency, Financial Statements, Financial Statement Analysis, Finance, Human Capital, Go To Market Strategy, Process Analysis, Branding, People Management, Financial Reporting, Capital Budgeting, Financial Accounting, Operational Performance Management, Consumer Behaviour, Leadership and Management, Marketing Planning, Peer Review, Analysis

      4.7
      Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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      26K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      University of Virginia

      Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business

      Skills you'll gain: Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Balance Sheet, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Design Thinking, Annual Reports, Innovation, Process Design, Business Modeling, Business Process, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Courage, Leadership Development, Corporate Sustainability, Stakeholder Engagement, Professional Development, Business Ethics, Organizational Leadership

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      7.6K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Google

      Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project

      Skills you'll gain: Project Scoping, Project Documentation, Project Management Life Cycle, Project Management, Goal Setting, Project Management Software, Stakeholder Management, Cost Benefit Analysis, Resource Allocation, Accountability

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      23K reviews

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    • Status: Free
      Free
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      Johns Hopkins University

      Business Analytics with Excel: Elementary to Advanced

      Skills you'll gain: Risk Modeling, Regression Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Business Analytics, Business Process Modeling, Business Risk Management, Business Modeling, Data Modeling, Resource Allocation, Statistical Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Process Optimization, Financial Analysis, Spreadsheet Software, Predictive Analytics, Transportation Operations

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      3.7K reviews

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Microsoft

      Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst

      Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Dashboard, Excel Formulas, Extract, Transform, Load, Power BI, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Microsoft Excel, Data Modeling, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Star Schema, Data Analysis, Data Presentation, Data Visualization Software, Microsoft Power Platform, Data Integrity, Spreadsheet Software, Data Validation, Data Transformation, Data Cleansing, Data Visualization

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      7.1K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

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      Multiple educators

      Machine Learning

      Skills you'll gain: Unsupervised Learning, Supervised Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Machine Learning Algorithms, Machine Learning, Jupyter, Applied Machine Learning, Data Ethics, Decision Tree Learning, Tensorflow, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), NumPy, Predictive Modeling, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Random Forest Algorithm, Feature Engineering, Python Programming

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      4.9
      Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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      33K reviews

      Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

    • Status: AI skills
      AI skills
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      IBM

      IBM Full Stack Software Developer

      Skills you'll gain: Istio, Node.JS, Software Development Life Cycle, Unit Testing, Object-Relational Mapping, Cloud Computing Architecture, Server Side, Application Deployment, React Redux, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, OpenShift, Git (Version Control System), Cloud Applications, Full-Stack Web Development, HTML and CSS, Cloud Computing, Jupyter, Generative AI, Interviewing Skills

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      4.6
      Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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      55K reviews

      Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months

    • Status: Free
      Free
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      Yale University

      Introduction to Negotiation: A Strategic Playbook for Becoming a Principled and Persuasive Negotiator

      Skills you'll gain: Negotiation, Conflict Management, Leadership, Communication, Persuasive Communication, Influencing, Relationship Building, Decision Making, Strategic Decision-Making, Strategic Communication

      4.8
      Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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      5.1K reviews

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      In summary, here are 10 of our most popular starting a business courses

      • The entrepreneur's guide for beginners: Universitat de Barcelona
      • Launch Your Online Business: The State University of New York
      • How to Start Your Own Business: Michigan State University
      • Tableau Business Intelligence Analyst: Tableau Learning Partner
      • Business Foundations: University of Pennsylvania
      • Entrepreneurship: Growing Your Business: University of Virginia
      • Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project: Google
      • Business Analytics with Excel: Elementary to Advanced: Johns Hopkins University
      • Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst: Microsoft
      • Machine Learning: DeepLearning.AI

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