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Entrepreneurship and Startup Management: Intermediate

Go from founder to company builder: product market fit, growth engineering, sales, and becoming fundraise ready.

Duration
8 weeks
Level
Intermediate
Content
48 lessons
8 modules · 14 h 58 min
Certificate
Included
On completion
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What you'll learn

Measure product market fit with retention curves and the Sean Ellis test, and know when to pivot
Understand startup metrics at depth: CAC, LTV, payback, cohort analysis, and burn and runway
Build a financial model investors would genuinely believe
Design and run growth experiments across channels, content, SEO, and paid acquisition
Build a repeatable sales process for founder led and B2B enterprise sales
Run a real growth engine with measured CAC, retention, and an evidence backed growth thesis
Understand fundraising mechanics: SAFEs, term sheets, valuation, dilution, and cap tables
Build legal foundations, hiring plans, and ESOP structures for a growing team
Become fundraise ready with a financial model, cap table, data room, and a live investor pitch

Who this course is for

  • Beginner level graduates ready to move from validated idea to real company building
  • Early stage founders with a live product who want structured, fundraise ready skills
  • Founders preparing to raise a seed or early round
  • Anyone who wants hands on experience running a growth engine and surviving investor diligence

Skills you'll gain

Intermediate EntrepreneurshipStartup ManagementProduct Market FitStartup MetricsUnit EconomicsCAC LTVCohort AnalysisRetentionBurn and RunwayFinancial ModellingGrowth StrategyGrowth ExperimentsCustomer AcquisitionFounder Led SalesB2B SalesPricing StrategyChurnFundraisingVenture CapitalAngel InvestorsValuationDilutionCap TableSAFE NoteTerm SheetPitch DeckESOPData Room

This course includes

Live mentor led Ucanly sessions plus self paced recorded content
A minor project building and running a real, measured growth engine by week five
A major project becoming fully fundraise ready with a live investor grilling by week ten
Ucanly pitch and deck review, investor introduction guidance, and incubator application support
A personalized roadmap to the Advanced level
Lifetime access to course materials and future updates
Certificate of Completion from Ucanly

Course content

8 modules · 48 lessons · 14 h 58 min

Product market fit and real traction, startup metrics and financial truth, growth engineering and distribution, sales customers and revenue, a minor project building and running a growth engine, fundraising and the investor game, legal team and operations, and a major project becoming fundraise ready.

Requirements

  • Completion of the Beginner level, or an existing venture with a live product and at least a few real users or customers
  • A computer with a reliable internet connection
  • Comfort with basic startup and business terminology

About this course

Level up from founder to company builder. This intermediate program from Ucanly is built for practitioners with an existing venture and at least a few real users or customers, taking them into serious traction and fundraising: measuring product market fit with retention curves and the Sean Ellis test, and startup metrics including CAC, LTV, and payback period. In your minor project in week five, you will build and run a real growth engine with an instrumented funnel, three live experiments, measured CAC and retention, and an evidence backed growth thesis. You will build repeatable sales processes for both founder led and B2B sales, understand the fundraising landscape including SAFEs, term sheets, and cap tables, and build legal and team foundations including ESOPs and hiring. You will graduate having become fully fundraise ready in your week ten major project, with a financial model, cap table, data room, traction narrative, and a live pitch and diligence grilling delivered to Ucanly mentors acting as investors.

Earn a Ucanly certificate

Complete this course to earn a Ucanly certificate with its own page and QR code. Save it as a PDF, share its link, or add it to the certifications on your LinkedIn profile.

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Frequently asked questions

It is recommended, but an existing venture with a live product and at least a few real users or customers is sufficient to start.

Yes, your minor project is a complete growth engine run live, with three real experiments executed on real traffic and measured CAC and retention results.

Yes, your major project includes a live pitch and diligence grilling delivered to Ucanly mentors acting as an investment committee, designed to expose real weaknesses before a real investor does.

A full fundraise ready company package with a financial model, cap table, data room, traction narrative, and a live pitch and diligence grilling delivered to Ucanly mentors acting as investors.