7 ways to launch a successful startup

“When you cease to dream you cease to live” — Malcolm Forbes
Entrepreneurial journey is indeed a roller-coaster ride! From an idea discussed over a coffee table to an up & running business, the journey is certainly challenging and enlightening. You will come across many success and failures from your hit & trials methods. But, then every failure becomes your opportunity to learn and do better ahead. You are often full of skeptics and doubts about your steps. The ones who succeed are those who learn how to overcome these, fall and rise with even more enthusiasm.
Here are the seven ways how Udacity can help you to upskill yourself and succeed in your entrepreneurial journey:
How to build a startup
Many startups fail for not validating their ideas per the requirements of the real-life customers. To mitigate that, you should know how to get out of the building and search for the real pain points and unmet needs of customers. Following this approach, the entrepreneur can then find a proper solution and can establish a suitable business model. Learn with this free course on how to rapidly develop and test ideas by gathering massive amounts of customer and marketplace feedback.
How to assess, hire, and fund your startup
Learn how to establish a strong foundation for your business and confidently pursue viable funding models, including bootstrapping, crowdsourcing, accelerators, incubators, and more! You will also learn to write clear, compelling, and targeted mission and vision statements, set quarterly and annual goals, find mentors, co-founders, and contractors to provide help along the way.
ABC of product design
Materialize your game-changing idea and transform it into a product that you can build a business around. It blends theory and practice to teach you product validation, UI/UX practices, Google’s Design Sprint and the process for setting and tracking actionable metrics.
Rapid Prototyping for your product
Prototyping allows you to spend ten minutes — instead of ten hours — finding an amazing design for your product. This course will guide you through the iterative process of prototyping an app and conducting user research. You will start by making a low fidelity paper prototype, conducting research with users, and use that research for your next iteration. And, finally, come up with an interactive prototype for your product.
Launch your own website
If you aren’t a coder, and want to create a fantastic website for your startup, our Web Developer Specialist Programs would be a perfect solution. Learn basic foundational languages HTML/CSS, website optimizations, Javascript, and how things work in the back-end systems.
Create an app for your business
Launch your own Android and iOS application for your business. In the android free courses, work with instructors step-by-step to build a cloud-connected Android app, and learn best practices of mobile development, and Android development in particular. Also, learn how to localize, networking, data storage and much more!
In iOS and Swift courses, you would learn the basics of Swift language, debugging, networking and much more! You will go through an entire process of building an app, taking your ideas from drawing board to App Store!
App Monetization Strategy
There is no higher form of user validation than having customers support your product with their wallets. This course blends instruction with real life examples to help you effectively develop, implement, and measure your monetization strategy, iterating on the model as appropriate. You will also learn how to set performance metrics & monitor the success of a strategy or when to change your monetization strategy.
Hope these courses will help you in your journey towards launching an amazing startup. Good Luck!
