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Business Modeling: Improving a Start-up’s Chance of Success

The modeling process discussed in this course is a dynamic approach that helps the entrepreneur adapt and change their business model.

Created byJeffrey Cornwall
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BeginnerUpdated Feb 26, 2021
Business Modeling: Improving a Start-up’s Chance of Success

About This Course

Building a strong business model is the key to improving the chance that a new business will have a successful launch and survive over the long-term. The business modeling process discussed in this course is a dynamic approach that helps the entrepreneur adapt and change their business model as new information is discovered from prospective customers.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand how to build an idea model
  2. Learn how develop a lean business model canvas to prepare for launch
  3. Recognize the importance of testing and refining a business model
  4. Learn how to develop a traditional business model canvas and use it as a foundation for a business plan

Your Instructor

Jeffrey Cornwall
Jeffrey Cornwall

Entrepreneur / Professor / Author

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Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also was founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, and led the Center for the first ten years of its operation. He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics for a nine year “sabbatical” to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC. Dr. Cornwall has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching, and in 2013 he was named the National Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year by the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. He has published ten books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship.

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