Sports Entrepreneurship
A free short course by Sportal Corporate — not a credit-bearing university award.
2h 48m of video7 videos13 written lessons
Building a business in sport — finding a real problem, choosing a model, validating it with actual customers, raising money, and sports technology.
The course begins with where the opportunities in sport genuinely are, then spends three lessons on the part founders skip: why you must talk to customers, how discovery becomes validation, and why customer discovery cannot be delegated. It follows a founder's story in detail, covers raising money, and closes on sports technology and innovation.
It is for anyone with a sports business idea, staff inside clubs and federations building something new, and students on an entrepreneurship or sport management course. Seven video lessons are released one at a time, with written notes, key terms and an exercise that asks you to test your own idea. Pass the ten-question quiz at 80% for a verifiable certificate.
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Free, self-paced, no payment. Work through the lessons, pass the quiz, and get a certificate you can verify by QR code.
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What you will learn
20 lessons · 2h 48m- 1How this course works
- 2Video 1 — Where the opportunities in sport actually are53m
- 3Notes — Where the opportunities in sport actually are
- 4Video 2 — Why you must talk to customers3m
- 5Notes — Why you must talk to customers
- 6Video 3 — From discovery to validation3m
- 7Notes — From discovery to validation
- 8Video 4 — Customer discovery cannot be delegated6m
- 9Notes — Customer discovery cannot be delegated
- 10Video 5 — A founder's story, in detail1h 11m
- 11Notes — A founder's story, in detail
- 12Video 6 — Raising money12m
- 13Notes — Raising money
- 14Video 7 — Sports technology and innovation21m
- 15Notes — Sports technology and innovation
- 16Key terms
- 17Key takeaways
- 18Applied output — Prepare and pitch a validated sports venture
- 19Further viewing — optional
- 20Exercise — Ten conversations, no pitching
Lessons unlock one at a time. Finish them all, score 80% on the quiz, and your certificate is issued automatically.
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