How to Build an Entrepreneurial Mindset for Startup Success
Enhance Your Ability to See and Act on Entrepreneurial Opportunities
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What if you could identify opportunities to create new products and services, and lead their launch in a startup or corporate venture?
Here's a secret: You can.
The truth is, nothing changes if nothing changes. If you want to achieve your entrepreneurial goals, then you need to do something different than what you've already been doing.
Take a moment and imagine a world where you could:
- Dramatically improve the number of new entrepreneurial opportunities that you see;
- Authentically stand out from others in your ability to see and act on opportunities; and
- Feel more confident in your ability to take the first steps towards establishing a startup or corporate venture.
You can achieve all of this success by simply building your entrepreneurial mindset.
Entrepreneurial opportunities require the discovery of new relationships and interactions in the marketplace. Entrepreneurial mindset is vital to the discovery of new relationships and interactions in the marketplace that are uncertain and dynamic. Strong entrepreneurial mindset dramatically improves entrepreneurial success.
Entrepreneurs must make quick, high-stakes decisions with incomplete information in dynamic markets. This course assists aspiring and active entrepreneurs with:
- Learning how to identify and analyze entrepreneurial opportunities for innovative ventures by first understanding yourself and your decision-making factors;
- Understanding why entrepreneurial mindset is critically important for aspiring and active entrepreneurs;
- Developing your entrepreneurial mindset to dramatically improve your likelihood of success as an entrepreneur.
Your Instructor
Dr. James V. Green leads the education activities of the University of Maryland's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) as the Director of Entrepreneurship Education. He leads the designing and teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, seed funding programs, and managing of residential entrepreneurship programs for students. In 2011, he earned first prize in the 3E Learning Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Competition presented at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) annual conference to recognize college educators who have created new and challenging learning activities that actively involve students in the entrepreneurial experience.
Prior to the University of Maryland, Dr. Green held founder, executive, and operational roles with multiple startups to include WaveCrest Laboratories (an innovator in next-generation electric and hybrid-electric propulsion and drive systems), Cyveillance (a software startup and world leader in cyber intelligence and intelligence-led security), and NetMentors.Org (the first national online career development eMentoring community).
Dr. Green earned a Doctor of Management and an MS in Technology Management from the University of Maryland University College, an MBA from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.