Launch your innovative venture (Lancez votre projet innovant)

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•   Innovation
•    OPENCLASSROOMS
•    Chargée de formations en Innovation
•    Innovation , Entrepreneuriat

Objectifs

Once you’ve built the foundation of your venture, the next challenge is to “get up and get going”. That stage raises a number of new issues: preparing your venture for fund raising, actually closing the funding, and managing the project, leading the team.

Goals of this training:

• Model a market campaign

• Model various elements of an enterprise using a dataset

• Identify revenue structure for an enterprise

• Identify a company's explicit expenses

• Understand the concept of fixed costs

• Understand the standards for financial statements

• Understand the elements of an enterprise's expense report

• Understand the nature of launching a venture

This training receives government funding managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (National Agency for Research) under the plan France 2030, with the reference ANR-21-EXES-0004.

Public

Researchers, teachers, PhD students, and anyone interested in innovation in all its forms.

Pré-requis

- Basic Arithmetic calculation with Excel practice to complete the exercices - To have followed the previous trainings: Decode the entrepreneur's DNA and Develop your venture

Programme

Part 1: Convert your idea into numbers

1. Start from this idea : "Projections are always wrong"
2. Build a decision model
3. It all starts with sales
4. The 3 classes of sales model
5. Some examples
6. Conclusion
7. Quiz : Build a decision model of a fitness club (study case)

Part 2: Produce the financial statements for your venture

1. Describe your expense structure
2. Model the cost structure
3. Produce the financial statements
4. Assess your funding requirement
5. Analyze your funding requirement
6. Quiz
7. Quiz : Calculate the expense structure of a pastry shop (Study case)

Part 3: The Business plan : write the story

1. Is the Business plan really useless ?
2. Anticipate on the chasm in funding your project
3. Understand the rejection process from investors
4. The canonical Business Plan template
5. A few writing tips
6. Discover storytelling

Part 4: Master the art of pitching

1. Introduction to the art of pitching
2. The structure of a pitch
3. The principles of public speaking
4. Tell your story in front of an audience

Part 5: Early stage management : survival principles in a hostile environment

1. Early stage management challenges
2. Leadership throughout time
3. Rules and principles for surviving in a hostile environment
4. Some testimonial
5. Quiz

Méthodes pédagogiques

It's an e-learning course in english that takes place on the OPENCLASSROOMS platform with full independence. You have three months to complete it.

The course is punctuated by videos covering all the key notions of the training and texts that go into greater depth on the subject.

A certificate of achievement will be issued by the OPENCLASSROOMS platform when you have completed the course. To confirm that you have completed the course, please send this certificate by email to formations.innovation@u-bordeaux.fr.

WARNING: you must wait to receive the link to create your account before you can start the course (email sent by OpenClassrooms). Only this account will activate the license that will allow you to obtain the certificate of achievement to send to us. Training completed with an account other than this one will not be considered valid.

Registration for this course commits you to completing it (we pay a license), so please only register if you are sure you will complete the course.