Welcome to your
DUT Entrepreneurship Academy
Free online courses to help you to start and grow your businesses (and much more!)
Welcome to your very own free academy ...
I'm Professor TZ Mthembu and together with the team at Youth Innovation Entrepreneurship Design Institute (YIEDI) we have created this academy filled with lots of world class short practical online courses to help you start or grow your business.
Whether you are thinking of starting a business and want to understand how the world of business works, are looking for funding, need help finding your first clients, want to write a CV or are struggling to get traction, you will find help in here.
Of course no online course is going to solve all your problems! But we hope that with these short practical resources you will find the inspiration as to what you can do to start. We are constantly adding new courses so check in from time to time.
How do these differ from our more formal courses? These are short (15-25 mins) online practical courses to get you started. They are not formal academic courses (so obviously they don't count for grades)... but we hope that they serve an important function in your own journeys, namely to get you started towards owning your own destiny!
There are no costs. No ads. No subscriptions to buy in this academy. Because we want you to have a learning experience free from commercial pressures.
Enjoy!
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Pick a category that fits best with what you are looking for or scroll below to see some of our most popular courses for you!
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Then below are some of our most popular courses for you to try and see if you find something you like or checkout All Courses at the top of this page!
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Understanding the entrepreneurial lifecycle
Course4.7 average rating (83 reviews)Inspired by the book called "Corporate Lifecycle" we applied that knowledge to the entrepreneurial lifecycle and mapped it against our experience supporting startups and small businesses in over 83 countries and found some really interesting insights
Free
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Understanding why the economy matters to your business (and how to use it to your advantage)
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)A powerful short course to explain why the economy matters to your business, why you shouldn't be intimidated by it and how to build a micro, small or medium business within the context of the economy.
Free
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Understanding how CVs work (and how to make them work for you)
Course5.0 average rating (8 reviews)Whether you are looking for a job, starting a business or a seasoned entrepreneur, CVs are enormously powerful, yet hugely misunderstood. This is a course to help you create one that really works for you
Free
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How to find investors: a reality check
Course5.0 average rating (8 reviews)A powerfully honest course to help you understand what investors are looking for, the probabilities around getting funded and help you think differently around how to grow your business if you looking for funding is taking too long.
Free
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Find clients & grow your business
Course5.0 average rating (45 reviews)For professionals, entrepreneurs, startups and those who have lost their jobs who struggle to get commercial traction.
Free
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How to discover your personal value proposition
Course4.5 average rating (15 reviews)This is a course to help you understand what you are good at and how to figure out your value proposition to the world.
Free
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Understanding Money and how to handle it: a course for entrepreneurs
Course4.9 average rating (15 reviews)A powerful and easy to follow course for all aspiring and current entrepreneurs who would like to have a better - and simpler - understanding of how money works and avoid the mistakes that so many of us make.
Free
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How to deal with setbacks
Course4.2 average rating (9 reviews)How to deal with difficult times. A course for every person on how to handle the inevitable setbacks that you will encounter in your entrepreneurial journey.
Free
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250 Business Ideas for you to think about
CourseStuck in deciding what business to start? Then this might help you. It is a collection of 250 ideas for you to search through until you find the one business that really speaks to your passion and talent. Then the world is yours to conquer!
Free
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How to figure out if you have a good business idea
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Perspectives from experienced entrepreneurs and mentors on how to figure out if you have a good business idea.
Free
What to read what others say instead?
Here's a small selection of the thousands of people whose life we touch every month.
Top Class eye and mind opener 10 out of 10
Peter-Hain Kazapua
Amazing Experience
Luisa Allegro
Incredible how much information was packed in such a short course. I feel encouraged and feel ready for more adventures.
Incredible how much information was packed in such a short course. I feel encouraged and feel ready for more adventures.
Read LessBrilliant!!!
Gift Dlamini
Would recommend to everyone in a journey to start a business!
Would recommend to everyone in a journey to start a business!
Read LessEffective overview and basic steps to follow to success
Johann Venter
Thank you for sharing your experience...
Thank you for sharing your experience...
Read LessPerfect and practical
Lunati Kona
Great exercises
Great exercises
Read LessIt was amazing
Sthandiwe Msomi
I've learn so much in this 14 day challenge, the things that I didn't nkow Thank u
I've learn so much in this 14 day challenge, the things that I didn't nkow Thank u
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Lucas Kgosana
I am happy and learned a lot from the course, and mostly it is an eye opener on a lot of thing I was not really putting into consideration . It helped a lot ...
Read MoreI am happy and learned a lot from the course, and mostly it is an eye opener on a lot of thing I was not really putting into consideration . It helped a lot and I am grateful
Read LessPractical and insightful
Zikisani Titi
The kind if advice every startup needs - practical and insightful
The kind if advice every startup needs - practical and insightful
Read LessThe title is exactly about what my business needed. Hence...
Joyce Makhema
The wealth of tools that one can use to find clients is appreciated. Some of the tools I under-used. Thanks for the tips and hints on how to go about finding...
Read MoreThe wealth of tools that one can use to find clients is appreciated. Some of the tools I under-used. Thanks for the tips and hints on how to go about finding clients using the tools.
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