Venture Creation Certificate

Understanding Entrepreneurship

Whether you plan to launch your own business, develop new products, work at a startup or assist with your company’s growth initiatives, the 15 credit hour Venture Creation Certificate adds to your understanding of entrepreneurship. Learn key ways to develop, form and nurture a venture that lays the foundation for success. This certificate is:

Hands on. This certificate is experiential, which means you’ll leave campus to visit and network with entrepreneurs in the community.
Delivered in stages. The sequence of courses follows the journey of creating a venture: the stages of developing; decision-making and understanding how strategy, finance, marketing, operations and other business disciplines interact.
Career focused. The skills you gain from this certificate prepare you to drive innovation in your own venture or in growing companies throughout Indiana.

Are you an entrepreneur?

What does it take to be an entrepreneur—to launch your own venture, develop new products, or work at a startup? A good idea. Money to back it up. Connections.

Kelley alumna Arianna Cruz, BS’18, never thought of herself as an entrepreneur—until she had an idea for a magazine. She wanted to create a space that educates, inspires, and calls people to action. Discover how Arianna’s coursework in the Kelley School of Business at IUPUI gave her the knowledge and skills to validate and create her magazine idea.

Requirements and Qualifications

To qualify for the certificate, you must be an admitted or current student at IUPUI.

You must also:

Complete nine credit hours of core certificate courses on the IUPUI campus.
Have a minimum grade point average of 2.0.
Complete prerequisites for some courses.

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The certificate requires 15 undergraduate credit hours divided between a nine-credit hour core and six credit hours of electives. The core is composed of the following trio of courses, which build upon each other to take you from the initial entrepreneurial idea through launch of a venture.

The courses should be taken in order with W240 as a prerequisite to W250 and both W240 and W250 as prerequisites to W360.

Course #	Course Name	Credit Hours
W240	Venture Ideation Develop an understanding of the entrepreneurial mindset and the challenges and rewards that entrepreneurs face. Generate multiple venture ideas, either in the context of an existing corporation or organization or for independent ventures. Collaborate with fellow students to complete a feasibility analysis on a new venture using both qualitative and quantitative techniques and present the results to others.	3
W250	Venture Validation Perform intensive customer research, including interviews, surveys and data evaluation to understand and identify market needs. Communicate the key value drivers of a new venture idea and business model framework to a variety of potential stakeholders, including customers and users. Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of a venture and develop a high-level financial model for the concept. Understand the competitive landscape of a new venture idea and how it affects the overall new venture model.	3
W360	Venture Creation Communicate the essence of the business and elaborate on its success through an executive summary, business canvas and pitch or presentation Demonstrate the operational and financial feasibility of the venture and develop a high-level financial model for the enterprise. Design and complete a validation plan that moves the venture from idea to minimally viable product and proof of concept	3
	Business Foundations Core:	9

Electives

Choose two Kelley School of Business courses from the following list of electives to complete the remaining six credit hours required for the certificate. The electives deliberately allow future inclusion of disciplinary-specific and industry-specific courses offered by other schools on the IUPUI campus.

Course #	Course Name	Credit Hours
W430	Organizations and Organizational Design	3
Z302	Managing and Behavior in Organizations	3
Z443	Developing Employee Skills	3
M303	Marketing Research	3
M426	Sales Management	3
M432	Digital Marketing	3
F305	Intermediate Corporate Finance	3
F402	Corporate Financial Strategy and Governance	3
P330	Project Management	3
P421	Supply Chain Management	3
P320	Supply Chain Management: Sourcing	3
P431	Supply Chain Management: Logistics and Distribution	3
	Total Hours - Venture Creation Certificate:	15

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To learn more about the Venture Creation Certificate and how it can fit into your professional goals, please reach out with your specific questions.

Barb Cutillo

Lecturer of Management and Entrepreneurship, Venture Creation Certificate Program Coordinator
vcc@iupui.edu
317-274-3942

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