Young Empowered Startuppers - Entrepreneur

Issued by Empowered Startups

The earner has demonstrated critical mind shifts key to entrepreneurship including resilience, determination, creativity, and willingness to iterate thoughts based on learning. As part of the YES journey they built an innovative business model and tested it through customer and market discovery. The learner practiced critical skills that allow them to resonate and be highly valuable to the transforming global workforce and their community, and seek-out and excel at future learning opportunity.

Level Foundational
Time Months

Skills

Earning Criteria

16+ hours of engaging and interactive online learning focused on Lean Startup Methodology and Design Thinking. All Learning is focused on achieving Problem Solution fit for early stage startup and includes iterative business and traction modeling, Entrepreneurial mind shifts, Customer discovery/interviews, Minimum Viable product development, and pitch building.
40+ hours validating an innovative business model by customer and market discovery, as well as building a prototype design/schematic or wireframe, and finally a pitch document.