Top Startup Courses you should take in 2025

Courses are a great way to deepen your understanding of a Startup. They are designed to be comprehensive and cover a wide range of topics. Here are the top 15 Startup courses to consider in 2025.

List of Startup Courses

Startup courses are plentiful and varied. Here are the top 15 Startup courses to consider in 2025.

The Lean Startup Seminar

How to create a system of "innovation accounting" within your company so that everyone is building products that meets customers needs. The easiest and fastest ways to build minimum viable products so you can get your product launched as quickly as possible.

How to Build a Startup

The main idea in this course is learning how to rapidly develop and test ideas by gathering massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback. Many startups fail by not validating their ideas early on with real-life customers. In order to mitigate that, students will learn how to get out of the …

Sam Altman: How to Start a Startup

Everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts. How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014.

The Ultimate Guide to Startup Business Development

Learn and master the function of business development in this practical, actionable, and content-rich training course.

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Discover, Validate & Launch New Business Ideas with ChatGPT

A Comprehensive Entrepreneurship Course to Find, Evaluate and Launch Innovative Business Ideas with the help of ChatGPT

Startup Entrepreneurship Specialization

The Startup Entrepreneurship specialization focuses on issues of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. It leads the students through the entire process of creating a start-up from an idea.

YCombinator Startup School

Learn how to start a company, with help from the world's top startup accelerator - Y Combinator. Meet with other founders through weekly live video chats and share tips on how you've grown your startup. Keep track of your startup's progress with weekly updates and get ready to launch your produc…

Entrepreneurial Operations: Launching a Startup

This startup operations course will examine the real-world operational challenges and execution risks associated with getting a new venture started. We will consider start-up ventures in a variety of industries. The course will provide you with a set of steps, frameworks, and tools that can be used…

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How to Build a Startup

Learn what it takes to build a successful startup using the Customer Development process, where entrepreneurs "get out of the building" to gather and iterate on feedback.

Business Growth: Start-Ups, Investment and Negotiation

This free online business course will be of great interest to anyone thinking about starting up a company. Business leaders and entrepreneurs offer their teachings on a range of subjects, from the importance of corporate culture to effective negotiation. They also discuss how to find angel investor…

Financial Projections for Early Stage Start-ups

By the end of this 1-hour long guided project, you will be able to create well-structured financial projections for your start-up idea to be used to attract investors. Firstly, you will learn how to calculate sales projections for your start-up. Afterwards, you will learn how to calculate start-up…

Entrepreneurship: How To Start A Business From An Idea

Business and entrepreneurship fundamentals! Strategies to turn your startup or business idea into a successful business

Digital Marketing Agency | Start a Social Media Business

Build a Digital Marketing Agency Business with Social Media (SMMA), ChatGPT, Facebook Ads, Instagram, WordPress, SEO

Startup Marketing: Dekker's 0-1 Million Startup Entrepreneur

Learn how to grow your startup from the early to mid stages with an 14-year marketing veteran from a family of successful entrepreneurs. Learn the easiest marketing techniques get real results without a lot of budget. This course is for entrepreneurs and marketers selling business OR consumer produ…

Build Your Startup with No Coding (Design, Develop & Ship)

Learn to design, structure, and deploy a SaaS startup with Bubble.

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I currently run my own sales consulting & coaching company. When you're ready, I can help you to overcome your most pressing sales challenges. I specialize in turbocharging commercial teams and am passionate about helping people get better at SALES, a seriously misunderstood craft. In the past, I've helped over …

$380 / month

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Hi there! My name is Sebastiano, and I'm an experienced engineering leader with a passion for helping others grow in their careers. I'm currently a Director of Engineering at Upwork, and over the years, I've led multiple teams at companies like Pinterest, Paypal, Snap, and Spotify in domains ranging from …

$110 / month


Do you want to speed up your career or successfully transition to the leadership role? Do you need to define the product strategy or expand the operations? Let's work together! MY EXPERIENCE: I have 15 years of experience in Tech including 12 years in Google; a tenured leader with experience …

$150 / month

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As a mentor with a background in both research and industry, I have a wealth of experience of 10+ years to draw upon when guiding individuals through the field of machine learning. My focus is on helping experienced software engineers transition into ML/DS, as well as assisting machine learning engineers …

$230 / month

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Welcome to my mentoring page! My name is Nikola and I am an experienced researcher/engineer in Machine Learning / LLMs based in Switzerland. I have a PhD in NLP from ETH Zurich (top 10 CS school) and over 9 years research and development experience in deep learning and AI. I …

$420 / month

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*** Not accepting new mentees from Feb 15, 2025 - June 30, 2025: on paternity leave *** *** Still available for single sessions, reach out if you have any questions! *** I manage a small data science team for a startup (<40 people) and can help you learn about data …

$600 / month

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