DIGITAL Business Entrepreneurship
Have you thought of the possibilities of starting a business? Do you ever wonder how people sell online – on Amazon, the world’s largest Internet Company by revenue? How can you find the products in demand?
How you may do all this – before you even go to college? Now you can! Our mentors and advisors will take you through the full experience of crowd funding, product research, product branding, pricing strategy, manufacturing sourcing, product listing on Amazon, operational order processing and fulfillment and MUCH MORE!
Come join us today…and improve your teamwork, prosperity, and inventiveness towards your entrepreneurship excellence. This experience will prepare you for any endeavor you may take in your life’s journey!
According to Entrepreneurship Action Plan (European Commission, 2013), investing in entrepreneurship education is one of the highest return investments a country can make. Surveys suggest that between 15% and 20% of students who participate in a mini-company program in secondary school will later start their own company, a figure that is about three to five times that for the general population.
Such a training is important regardless if they actually found a business or a social enterprise. Once through entrepreneurial learning, students develop business knowledge and essential skills and attitudes including creativity, initiative, tenacity, teamwork, understanding of risk and a sense of responsibility. This is the entrepreneurial mind-set that helps entrepreneurs transform ideas into action and also significantly increases employability.
The three categories of skills include the following:
• Managerial: opportunity recognition, problem solving, business planning, marketing, financial projections, pitching
• Communication & Relational: Communication and Presentation techniques, Team building and team working, Networking techniques, and Collaboration and Empathy
• Personal: Creative Thinking, Idea Generation, Flexibility and Stress Management
Our training methodology is inspired by the lean startup philosophy. It does focus on real-world problems and challenges described by international experts in the thematic fields which provide unique opportunities for the participants to be engaged with.
The methodology also exploits the basic dimensions of the lean startup tactics: participants in our program are trained to build a minimal version of a new product/service which allows the team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers.
Teams are engaged with real potential customers by various means (e.g. sending emails to relevant companies, taking feedback by individuals outside the facilities, receiving guidance by mentors/entrepreneurs in the specific ICT themes, etc.) while during the Academies are creating and testing their hypothesis about their idea.
Our modules integrate entrepreneurship awareness modules with value-producing practices: teams will be guided to produce ideas, measure their effectiveness in the real-world, and learn from that experiment performing and integrated and iterative learning cycle.