Course Curriculum
Youth Venture Program
Click here to access the course textbook. Below you will find a video, worksheet, and slides for each course session.
Session One: Personal Budget
Lesson Title: If It Don't Make Dollars, then It Don't Make Sense: Insights into Business and Personal Finance
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you should understand the importance of financial literacy and planning, and how business could be use to create and grow wealth.
Session Two: Business and Strategic Plan
Lesson Title: Business Dream to Business Plan: Basic Tools Needed for Planning a Successful Business
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you should be able to identify what information goes into the different plans and be able to construct the different plans using templates.
Session Three: MVP
Lesson Title: Entrepreneurship 101
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you should be able to identify how to produce a product or service from scratch and improve that product or service over time.
Session Four: Customer Journey
Lesson Title: Express Yourself! The Building Blocks to an Effective Marketing Strategy
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you should be able to take a minimal viable product and turn it into something your customers can't live without.
Session Five: Team Building
Lesson Title: Managing Teams: Leadership for the Future
Learning Objectives: By the end of this section, you should be able to build and evolve a team from the most talented people in your network to create or grow your company.
Session Six: SMART Accounting
Lesson Title: Show Me The Money! An Introduction to Business Accounting Tools
Learning Objectives:By the end of this section, you should be able to identify the needed documents to track your company's performance and the items contained in each document.
Session Seven: Tech Stack
Lesson Title: You're Still Focusing On Facebook? Insights into Cutting-Edge Business Technology
Learning Objectives:By the end of this section, you should be able to identify the needed technologies to facilitate efficient and effective performance in vital business functions.
Session Eight: Legal Compliance
Lesson Title: Keep it Legal, Stay Compliant: An Introduction to the Legal Requirements of Doing Smart Business
Learning Objectives:By the end of this section, you should be able to identify the required documents to establish a legally compliant business.
Session Nine: Promises
Lesson Title: Word is bond: the power of keeping promises
Learning Objectives:By the end of this section, you should be able to identify the relevant business promises and learn to never over commit or under deliver.
Session Ten: Business Ethics
Lesson Title: Ethical reasoning and social responsibility: doing business right
Learning Objectives:By the end of this section, you should be able to identify major ethical issues in business and the foundations of social responsibility.