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Master's in Entrepreneurship

Build the founder's vocabulary before your first seminar.

A Master's in Entrepreneurship moves quickly from “what is a startup” to pitching in front of investors. This guide gives you the runway: how founders actually find and test opportunities, how business models and funding really work, and the language of canvases, cap tables and traction that your cohort will assume you already speak.

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What's included

  • Real case studies
  • Exercises and mini quizzes
  • Frameworks and visual diagrams
  • Full glossary of terminology
  • AI study prompts
  • Recommended reading
  • Study tips and reflection questions
  • Career insights

Learning outcomes

  • 01Find, test and validate an opportunity instead of guessing at one
  • 02Build and defend a business model with the canvases your programme uses
  • 03Follow a funding conversation — bootstrapping, angels, VC, terms and stages
  • 04Arrive with a validated idea and the vocabulary to pitch it

Modules

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  1. 01

    Entrepreneurial Mindset

    What entrepreneurship actually is, how entrepreneurs create value, and the relationship with uncertainty, risk and resilience every later module assumes you already have.

    56 pages
  2. 02

    Opportunity Recognition & Validation

    Finding problems worth solving, talking to real customers, and testing an idea cheaply before building anything expensive.

    56 pages
  3. 03

    Business Models

    How a venture actually makes money: the Business Model Canvas, the Lean Canvas, pricing, and what makes one business more scalable than another.

    54 pages
  4. 04

    Innovation & Design Thinking

    Creativity, ideation and the design thinking process that turns a rough idea into something people actually want.

    60 pages
  5. 05

    Startup Marketing

    Branding, positioning, acquisition and growth marketing built for a startup's budget and speed, not a corporate marketing department's.

    58 pages
  6. 06

    Entrepreneurial Finance

    The numbers every founder needs fluency in: startup costs, cash flow, burn rate, runway, budgeting and simple valuation.

    54 pages
  7. 07

    Venture Capital & Funding

    Bootstrapping versus raising, how angels and VCs actually work, and the stages a fundraise moves through.

    56 pages
  8. 08

    Leadership & Team Building

    Founder roles, hiring a first team, and the culture, communication and leadership skills that keep a young company together.

    58 pages
  9. 09

    Business Strategy

    SWOT, Porter's Five Forces, Blue Ocean Strategy and the growth strategy frameworks behind every durable competitive advantage.

    54 pages
  10. 10

    Legal & Ethics

    Company formation, intellectual property, contracts, GDPR basics, and the ethics and ESG questions every founder eventually faces.

    58 pages
  11. 11

    Scaling a Startup

    Growth stages, international expansion, operations at scale, and how startups eventually exit.

    58 pages
  12. 12

    Master's Success Toolkit

    The academic and career skills — writing, presenting, networking, AI tools, dissertation prep — that carry you through the degree itself.

    79 pages

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Everything you need to feel prepared before your first lecture — explained from zero, designed for beginners, and built to give you a head start.

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Real Case Studies

Understand how theory works in real businesses.

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Learn the vocabulary before your lecturers use it.

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MSc Entrepreneurship, Barcelona

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Founder, starting a Master's

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