HTE402
Business Modelling
Faculty
Robbert van Geldrop
Entrepreneur and Investor
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Fee for single course
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Skills you’ll learn
Overview
The Business Modelling course is a one-week course in which we’ll dive into the world of business models, how to describe them and how to discover the right one for your startup idea.
Learning highlights
- Work out a business model of both an existing business and a new business idea using the Business Model Canvas.
- Use the Business Model Canvas as a design tool to look for alternative business models
- Identify potential risks of a new business idea
- Assess if the business model fits their capacity as a team
- Pick and mix variations of the original Business Model Canvas
Course outline
5 classes
Familiarise
We’ll use this day to understand business models as well as the Business Model Canvas. We’ll discuss ideas and form small working teams around them (if that did not happen already in prior classes)
Utilise
On this day, we’ll use the Business Model Canvas to shape our ideas into a possibly viable business model.
Diverge
We’ll discover alternative business models, customer segments and value propositions for our ideas. We also learn that good business models are highly focused.
Converge & refine
Once we’ve got all variations on the table, we need to pick the most plausible business model and identify potential risks for failure by scratching items off the list we find unrealistic.
Reflect
Each team will present the business model they find most viable and motivates what they deem the riskiest parts. Then, the entire class can provide feedback.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is required, but it does help if the participants come in with somewhat viable business ideas.
Methodology
The course will consist of a mix of lectures and group work in which the students form teams around business ideas they have.
Grading
Robbert is an entrepreneur and software developer, who wrote his first lines of codes on an Atari ST when he was 8 years old. He founded his first company at the age of 19. Today Robbert is an investor and board member of several SaaS startups in the Netherlands. He’s the Director of Product at Builders, a startup studio from Rotterdam.
Robbert also founded the first Lean Startup Circle meetup group in continental Europe in an effort to create closer ties with other entrepreneurs facing the tough challenges of building a business. As such he became one of the first mentors and advisors at several well-known Dutch incubation and acceleration programs such as Rockstart, YES!Delft, Antler and Utrecht Inc. He coached hundreds of other founders of tech startups in the past decade and has developed entrepreneurship workshops from scratch which many of these programs across Europe still use today.
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Business Modelling
by Robbert van Geldrop
Total hours
15 Hours
Dates
Oct 18 - Oct 22, 2021
Fee for single course
€500
Fee for degree students
€250
How to secure your spot
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If successful, get ready to join us on campus
FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
This depends on your case. Please check with the Spanish or Thai consulate in your country of residence about visa requirements. We will do our part to provide you with the necessary documents, such as the Certificate of Enrollment.
Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.