Course Overview -Building Your Freelancing Career Capstone
Specialization Overview
Course Introduction
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Introduction to Business Plans
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Capstone Project Details
Course Overview -Course Communication & Academic Policies
About CalArts and Extended Studies
Get acquainted with our freelancers
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Forum Guidelines
Academic Integrity
Requesting Peer Reviews
Course 1 Review - Developing Your Service -Step 1 of Developing Your Service
Find a Problem with a Hungry Audience
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Build Your Persona
Research Your Ideal Customer
Problem and Ideal Target Customer (Page 2)
Course 1 Review - Developing Your Service -Step 2 of Developing Your Service
Understanding and Sizing Your Market
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Market Sizing
Market Research & Sizing (Page 3)
Course 1 Review - Developing Your Service -Step 3 of Developing Your Service
Spy on the Competition
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Step 3 - Assess the Competition
Competition (Page 4)
Course 1 Review - Developing Your Service -Step 4 of Developing Your Service
Design Your Solution
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Discover your customers
Solution (Page 5)
Course 2 Review - Finances -Updating Your Business Budget
Runaway 3: Design your business budget
Runway 3 continued
Business Finance
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Business Inputs Walkthrough
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Could you give yourself a raise?
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Testing additional assumptions
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Adding more complexity to your inputs
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Financial Plan (Page 7)
Course 3 Review - Style and Presentation -Apply style to your plan
Preparing Your Business Plan
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Branding
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Add Your Branding
Branding (Page 1 and entire document)
Course 3 Review - Style and Presentation -Tell others about your business
Pitch your solution
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Pitch & Positioning (Page 6)
Course 4 Review - Risks-Think Ahead
Risk Management
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Passwords & Account Management
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Rajib on facing and overcoming obstacles
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Nick on balancing finances
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Risks (Page 8)
Course 5 - Business Plan Wrap-Up-Business plan preparation
Making a Go/No Go Decision
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Go or No Go? (Page 9)
Self Evaluation (Page 10)
Finalize and submit your plan -How to review business plans and apply feedback
Evaluating a Business Plan
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Giving Useful Feedback
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Finalize and submit your plan -Some parting thoughts
Socks' words of encouragement
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Nick's words of wisdom
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Rajib's parting advice
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Conclusion
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Next Steps