The Business Planning & Launch Class is part of Novotorium’s “Stage 1: Concept” program for aspiring entrepreneurs. Tuition is $300 per month for each entrepreneur. The class is scheduled for three months (13 weeks). At their discretion, students may choose to accelerate the class to finish in two months (9 weeks).

We currently have no classes scheduled, but will announce classes in the future.

Topic of Class

1. Orientation
2. Welcome to Entrepreneurship
3. Developing Your Product Offering and Customers
4. Designing Your Product Offering
5. Designing Your Product Offering — Lab Week
6. Testing and Refining Your Product Offering and Customer Model
7. Money: Scaling, Expenses & Revenue
8. Building Out Your Business — Lab Week
9. Go or No Go? – Implement Your Business or Pivot, Pivot, Pivot?
10. Entrepreneur Lab
11. Entrepreneur Lab
12. Entrepreneur Lab
13. Program Closing and Next Steps

Books and Resources

Required reading and resources for the course are included in the registration fee.

• Business Model Generation, by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
• Startup Owner’s Manual, by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
• The Entrepreneurs Guide to Customer Development, by Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits
• Business Model Canvas

Please feel free to email Chuck Hall with questions about this program.