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.

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 …

The Ultimate Guide to Startup Business Development

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

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

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

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.

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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…

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

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.

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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

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Hi, I'm Rick! With over 10 years as a Software Engineer at FAANG companies and startups, I specialize in Backend Distributed Systems and have a broad skill set in various technologies. I've also founded two startups. In the past, I mentored many engineers/non-engineers through work, volunteering, and bootcamps, focusing on …

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Throughout my seven years in Product Leadership at Royal Bank of Canada, Amazon and Vivint, I have mentored several product managers, and led cross functional teams of 15+ members to launch five products from 0->1 through innovative approaches. I have also led 15+ technical and process improvements with high impact …

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I’m a CTO, founding engineer and leader with over 25 years of experience developing innovative solutions in both corporate and startup environments. I’ve personally architected, deployed and maintained production services utilizing much of AWS, built out the CI/CD infrastructure and scaled out the team to build on it. I have …

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Unlock your potential with a seasoned and multi-faceted leader! Hey, I'm Federico! With 10+ years of experience in biz ops, program management, and strategic leadership, I’ve built and led teams across Finance, Operations, CX, and Strategy at Amazon and AWS. Now, as COO at The Collecting Group, I oversee scalable …

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