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Programs · Advanced Professional Course
Program overview
Startup Suite™
Cover funding, governance, operations and market expansion in one founder’s toolkit, and go deep on whichever function is your current constraint.
Overview
Key facts
- Qualification
- Advanced Professional Course
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Entry requirement
- Open entry
- Format
- Hybrid
- Credential
- Certificate
- Accreditation
- Credence Institute certification
About this program
For first-time founders who need coverage across the whole business. Startup Suite is a full-stack course covering the four disciplines early-stage founders have to run at once: funding and investor relations, governance and compliance, operations and team and market expansion. It is structured as a founder’s toolkit rather than a linear curriculum, so teams can go deep on whichever function is currently the constraint.
(opens full size in a new tab)Who should apply
- Founders
What you leave with
A founder’s toolkit covering funding, governance and compliance, operations and team, and market expansion.
Where it can take you
- Running funding and investor relations
- Handling governance, compliance, operations and team
- Planning market expansion
The award
On passing the assessment you receive a certificate for this Advanced Professional Course program. Verification arrangements for this program are stated at enrollment. Issued under Credence Institute certification.
Who teaches it
If you want to know who leads this program before you apply, ask us and we will tell you.
Paying for someone else?
If you are funding someone else’s studies, here is what you are paying for. Startup Suite™ is an Advanced Professional Course program taking 12 weeks, examined and credentialed, and issued with a certificate that any employer can verify publicly at any time. It prepares the learner for running funding and investor relations, handling governance, compliance, operations and team, and planning market expansion. With the learner’s consent we will confirm enrollment, attendance and completion to you in writing at each stage.
Intakes
Next intakes
Dates for the next cohorts are being confirmed. An advisor can tell you when this program next runs, and put you on the list for it.
Ask an advisor about datesFees and payment
Multiple payment options are available, with installments on programs of six weeks and longer. Employers can be invoiced directly against a purchase order or a letter of undertaking.
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