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This bookstore seeks to provide entrepreneurs with resources that they can use at any point in the development of their business ideas. The library is divided by the main topics that entrepreneurs face on the road to creating, validating and launching their ventures.
Strategyzer
Practical business innovation tools to help you understand customers, design better value propositions and find the right business model.
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, innovators, and challengers who strive to challenge outmoded business models and design the companies of tomorrow. If your organization needs to adapt to new and harsh realities, but doesn't yet have a strategy that puts you ahead of your competitors, you need it.
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Lean Canvas
A 1-page business plan template created by Ash Maurya that helps you deconstruct your idea into its key assumptions. It is adapted from Alex Osterwalder's Business Model Canvas and is optimized for Lean Startups.
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Leanstack
With continuous innovation comes a whole new set of rules that fundamentally change the way products are built. LEANSTACK helps you understand these new rules and transform your business to succeed in the era of continuous innovation.
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LivePlan
More than 850,000 small businesses use LivePlan for business planning, forecasting and financial management.
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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want:
Value Proposition Design helps you address the central challenge of every business: creating compelling products and services that customers want to buy. This highly practical book, along with its online application, will teach you the processes and tools you need to create products that sell.
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Value Proposition Canvas
Value Proposition Canvas is a tool that can help ensure that a product or service is positioned around what the customer values and needs. It was initially developed by Dr. Alexander Osterwalder as a framework to ensure that there is a fit between the product and the market.
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Stanford Embark
Stanford Embark is a carefully selected compilation of online tools that will guide you step-by-step on how to become an entrepreneur, start your own business or fine-tune your current company.
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Y Combinator Startup School
Y Combinator offers a list of courses and tools for startup founders to improve their business ideas, lead their teams and accelerate their companies.
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Latin American Center for Entrepreneurs Acceleration Workshop
Get trained in an agile and practical way, in this program designed by the Center for Entrepreneurship of INCAE, in which professors from the institution and practitioners will share with you the essential knowledge and tools to scale your business.
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Development Banking System Costa Rica
Non-reimbursable funds can be applied to early stage companies that would be difficult to finance in traditional schemes such as banks.
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Kickstarter
Kickstarter campaigns make ideas become reality. It's the space where creators share new perspectives on creative work with the communities that will be created to fund them.
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Indiegogo
Millions of people around the world visit Indiegogo to find smart, unconventional things that solve everyday problems, big and small. By giving entrepreneurs around the world a platform to launch new and innovative products, we help develop innovations in technology, design and more, all before they go mainstream.
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Invermaster
Invermaster is the result of the union of decades of experience of its executives in one of the most prestigious strategic advisory firms in the world (Bain & Company Inc.) and outstanding Latin American businessmen of long trajectory and recognition.
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Pomona Impact
We focus on companies that improve the lives of people at the base of the pyramid and/or benefit the environment. Pomona Impact actively seeks to generate entrepreneurial ecosystems in the region through the creation of co-working spaces and training of entrepreneurial skills.
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Carao Ventures
Carao Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage startups, provides support resources to consolidate them operationally, adds value through strategic and financial direction and connects entrepreneurs with their first big opportunities in the market.
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Dadneo
Professional investment manager in early stage dynamic ventures.
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Vulcano Fund
We are looking for dynamic ventures in the scaling and internationalization phase that solve real problems through the innovative use of disruptive technologies.
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BIDLab
IDB Lab is the IDB Group's innovation lab. We mobilize funding, knowledge and connections to catalyze innovation for inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The secret structure of great presentations
From the "I Have a Dream" speech to Steve Jobs' iPhone launch, many great talks have a common structure that helps your message resonate with listeners. In this talk, presentation expert Nancy Duarte shares practical lessons on how to deliver a powerful call to action.
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Your body language can determine who you are
Body language affects how others see us, but it can also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing," being in a confident posture even when we don't feel confident, can increase feelings of confidence and can impact our chances of success.
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Pitching Hacks at Stanford
Recommendations on what aspects a pitch deck should include.
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Investor Presentation Template
Recommendations on 12 slides to hook an investor.
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How to prepare an effective Elevator Pitch?
The video discusses different aspects that should be considered to make an effective elevator pitch.
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3 Ways to Be a More Effective Fundraiser
How do you raise money to get an idea off the ground, support a community or help change the world? Take a crash course on the secret art of successful fundraising with development strategist Kara Logan Berlin as she shows you how you can learn to ask for the resources you need, as well as get them.
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How to present to a VC?
Thinking about entrepreneurship? David S. Rose's talk on how to talk to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself and demonstrate to a VC.
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Impact Hub
One of the world's largest networks focused on building entrepreneurial communities for large-scale impact: home to the innovators, dreamers and entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world's most pressing problems.
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WeWork
Workspace is our business. From Private Offices to an entire headquarters, we create spaces that adapt to every need.
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Selina
Find the perfect balance between your work and personal life with Selina's CoWork spaces. Gorgeous, beautifully designed offices can be found in city centers, in forests and even by the beach. Access a new level of productive and creative energy at Selina - and the ultimate flexibility to work and travel indefinitely.
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Y Combinator
Is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year based in Mountain View, CA.
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TechnoServe, Boost your Business
The program has been successfully implemented since 2012, focusing on personalized counseling, business training and support for the growth of the SME sector. To date, more than 1,600 companies in the region have been served. Since its inception, it has increased sales by more than $38 million, which represents an average growth of 34%; it has also generated 1,600 new jobs, facilitating access to 150 loans for more than $5 million and expanding market options for participants.
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City of Knowledge Innovation Center
The City of Knowledge Innovation Center has two decades of experience developing the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Panama. Today, an important innovation community is growing around this initiative, made up of entrepreneurs and independent professionals from various sectors who approach the business world with creativity and pioneering spirit.
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Dynamic Initiative
CABEI program to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem for MSMEs and especially for new, young and/or innovative MSMEs; as well as strengthening the financial sector to promote adequate access to financial services for these MSMEs at the regional level.
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WordPress
WordPress.com gives you everything you need to start building your website today. Free hosting, your own domain, a top-notch support team and much more.
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Go Daddy
GoDaddy powers the world's largest cloud platform dedicated to independent small businesses. With more than 19 million customers worldwide and management of more than 78 million domain names.
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Wix
Cloud-based web development platform. It allows users to create HTML5 websites and mobile sites through the use of online drag-and-drop tools.
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Exur
Exur is a website and marketing funnel builder for entrepreneurs, as we have been there before and now too, we know what you need to run a successful business.
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Canva
Create amazing designs for your work or home, with no design experience.
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Unsplash
Free high resolution photos.
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The Noun Project
Free icons.
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Asana
Asana is a web and mobile application designed to improve and optimize team communication and collaboration. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on your goals, projects and tasks with Asana.
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Monday
Monday is a work operating system that enables organizations to create custom workflow applications in a no-code environment to run projects, processes and day-to-day work.
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Toggl
Toggl is a time tracking application that offers online time tracking and reporting services through its website along with mobile and desktop applications.
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Slack
Slack is a collaboration hub that can replace email to help you and your team work together seamlessly. It has a design that supports natural working together so you can collaborate with others online as efficiently as you do in person.
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Trello
Trello is a project management software with web interface and client for iOS and android to organize projectsBuffer: Buffer is a software application for the web and mobile devices, designed to manage social media accounts, providing the means for a user to schedule social media posts, as well as to analyze their results and interact with their community.
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Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a social media management platform built to interact, listen, analyze and provide security.
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WhatsApp Business
WhatsApp Business is a free downloadable application designed with small businesses in mind. Create a catalog to showcase your products and services. Communicate easily with your customers using tools that allow you to automate, sort and respond to messages quickly.
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Workana
Workana is a freelance and remote work marketplace platform for hiring freelancers.
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Alexa
Alexa software helps companies get better marketing results.
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics gives you the free tools you need to analyze your business data from one place so you can make better-informed decisions.
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SurveyMonkey
Create simple or complex online surveys. Evaluate feedback and take action. Give your teams the data they need to make smart decisions.
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LatamLex Lawyers
LatamLex Abogados' offices have been recommended internationally by specialized publications such as Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Latin Lawyer and the International Finance Law Review (IFLR), among others, recognizing its leadership in each of its countries.
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Legal documents for entrepreneurs and investors
Legal documents for entrepreneurs and investors, by LatamLex Abogados.
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The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you set the customer development process in motion. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, a recognized catalyst of the "Lean Startup" movement, and tested and refined by him for over a decade.
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted around the world that changes the way companies are built and new products are launched.
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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean Series)
We live in an era of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We are building more products than ever before, but most of them fail, not because we can't complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money and effort building the wrong product. What we need is a systematic process to quickly vet product ideas and increase our odds of success. That's the promise of Running Lean.
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Scaling Lean: Mastering the Key Metrics for Startup Growth
Is your "big idea" worth pursuing? What if you could test your business model earlier in the process, before spending valuable time and resources?
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SPARK Sessions
Spark Sessions is the Podcast of the Entrepreneurship Center of INCAE. Our director, Francisco Perez, will talk with entrepreneurs and other actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Latin American region, to learn about the reality of entrepreneurship in the region. A new episode every 2 weeks.
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Books for Entrepreneurs
In each episode we summarize a useful book for entrepreneurs or for those who want to be one someday. It can be about business, marketing, sales, inspiration, motivation, education, people management, public speaking, financial management, relationships and networking.
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Forbes Entrepreneurship
Laura Cerdeira hosts a podcast dedicated to those who change the world. Entrepreneurs capable of reaching the top.
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Acaba y Emprende: Podcast for Business Strategies
Acaba y Emprende is a Podcast for Entrepreneurs who want to improve their business, sales and marketing strategies, to get customers and become entrepreneurs.
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VIDA Entrepreneur
Learn from successful and inspiring Latino entrepreneurs.
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How to Start a Startup
Sam Altman and the folks at Y Combinator offer an amazing course on "How to Start a Startup" at Stanford. The course includes lectures by: Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Adora Cheung, Peter Thiel, Alex Schultz, Kevin Hale, Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Ben Silbermann, Alfred Lin, Patrick and John Collison, Aaron Levie, Reid Hoffman, Keith Rabois, Ben Horowitz, Marissa Mayer, Hosian Rahman, Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy, and more.
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Seth Godin's Startup School
Seth Godin is a thought leader in the marketing and business world. In this rare live recording, listen to Seth as he guides thirty entrepreneurs through a workshop exploring how they can build and manage the business of their dreams.
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Entrepreneurs on Fire
Entrepreneurs on Fire is an award-winning podcast in which John Lee Dumas interviews entrepreneurs who are really on fire.
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TEDTalks Business
Some of the world's leading innovators, entrepreneurs and market researchers share their stories and insights on the TED stage, at TEDx events and other system meetings around the world.
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Startup Lessons Learned by Eric Ries
Personal lessons about Startups learned from Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology.
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Steve Blank
Essays, blog posts, slides and videos by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and academic.
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Paul Graham
Essays and blog posts by Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator.
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Dave Lerner
Director of Entrepreneurship at Columbia University, helped launch the Columbia Startup Lab, the Columbia Design Studio, the Startup Law Studio, CTech and a number of new technology programs and curricula at Columbia University schools.
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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
GEM is a consortium of national country teams, primarily associated with leading academic institutions, that conducts survey-based research on entrepreneurship around the world. GEM is the only global research source that collects data on entrepreneurship directly from individual entrepreneurs.
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LAVCA
LAVCA is the Latin American Private Equity Investment Association, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting the growth of private equity in Latin America and the Caribbean. LAVCA's membership is comprised of more than 190 firms, ranging from leading global investment firms active in the region and local fund managers to family offices, global sovereign wealth funds, corporate investors and international pension plans.
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Global Accelerator Learning Initiative
Hundreds of accelerators around the world support early-stage entrepreneurs to grow and secure funding. GALI exists to investigate their effectiveness.
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Stanford University, Ernst & Young and Endeavor, surveyed more than 1,000 entrepreneurs from around the world with the goal of better understanding how successful entrepreneurial ventures accelerate access to new markets and become scalable, high-growth businesses.
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Global Entrepreneurship Index
The Global Entrepreneurship Index is an annual index that measures the health of entrepreneurship ecosystems in each of 137 countries. It then ranks the performance of these against each other. This provides a picture of how each country performs in both a national and international context.
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OECD
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collects information on trends in entrepreneurship and SME performance, such as new business start-ups, bankruptcies, job creation rate, firms and employment by size.
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World Bank
Open access data from the World Bank on global indicators by country and topic.
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Economic Complexity Observatory
The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and the Product Complexity Index (PCI) are measures of the relative knowledge intensity of an economy or product, respectively. The ECI measures the knowledge intensity of an economy by taking into account the knowledge intensity of the products it exports.
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Economic Complexity Atlas
The Economic Complexity Atlas is a research and data visualization tool that allows people to learn more about the economic structure of their country, including the growth opportunities that exist in the latent productive capacities that a country has.
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Social Progress Index
The Social Progress Index is a new way of defining the success of our societies. It is a comprehensive measure of real quality of life, independent of economic indicators. The Social Progress Index is designed to complement, rather than replace, economic measures such as GDP.
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Global Competitiveness Report
With the Global Competitiveness Index 4.0, the Report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 141 economies, providing unique insights into the drivers of economic growth in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Discover the 2019 edition's rankings, key findings, your economy's scorecard and more.
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INCAE MBA Entrepreneurship Track
The MBA in Entrepreneurship at INCAE allows candidates to incubate their entrepreneurship during the time they are studying for their master's degree. Students will receive, in addition to the managerial tools to lead their business, methodologies that allow them to undertake with the lowest possible risk.
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Latin American Center for Entrepreneurs Acceleration Workshop
Get trained in an agile and practical way, in this program designed by the Center for Entrepreneurship of INCAE, in which professors from the institution and practitioners will share with you the essential knowledge and tools to scale your business.
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Virtual Accelerator for companies - Leads Mujer INCAE Mastercard
In this course we will help you design a growth strategy for your company and we will guide you to identify the areas of your organization that you need to adjust before starting this process.
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YCombinator Startup School
Learn how to start a startup with YC's free 8-week online course.
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Google Activate
Discover a wide range of free training content to boost your business or career. Learn everything you need to learn by selecting specific modules or, if you prefer, take a complete course.
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Facebook Blueprint
Facebook Blueprint is a free educational platform available to anyone that offers complete and accurate training on how to use Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for business.
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The Foundations Playbook
In this introductory course, Ash Maurya defines the new rules of continuous innovation and shares the key mindset shifts to put them into practice.
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LinkedIn Learning
Learn the most in-demand skills with more than 14,000 online courses taught by real-world experts.
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Innotools: Transform your business idea
For decades, and still today, every entrepreneurial process is accompanied by the need to project the future. The Business Plan has been and still is the tool that entrepreneurs use to analyze the market, the competition, the opportunity or to calculate our possible expenses and sure income, projecting them into the future.
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UniMOOC
UniMOOC is a platform of courses born in the Institute of International Economics of the University of Alicante. Specifically, our courses have a clear orientation towards training for entrepreneurs in the digital economy. No matter if you are a great entrepreneur or a novice with an idea, in UniMOOC you will always find a course that will get you better prepared for your battle for entrepreneurship.
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Tutellus
Tutellus is a collaborative platform for online education, with a wide variety of free courses in different areas.
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