Overview
Earn a Certificate of Completion in Starting Your Own Business with our flexible online courses
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for a place to start? Look no further than McMaster Continuing Education’s Certificate of Completion in Starting Your Own Business. This 12-week program is designed to help you assess your potential to work for yourself and start your dream business.
- Learn key strategies and skills to assess your entrepreneurial potential
- Discover how to determine the viability of a business idea
- Understand where to start in growing a business from the ground up
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Program highlights Learn More
- Flexible online courses
- Taught by industry experts
- Earn a Certificate of Completion
Starting Your Own Business program features:
- Bring your entrepreneurial idea or new business plan to complete program activities and receive facilitator feedback from potential investors and stakeholders
- Participate in weekly live sessions with the instructor on a scheduled evening from 7:30 – 9:00 ET
- Learn online through instructor-led lectures and presentations
- Group discussions and networking with other professionals

Learning outcomes Learn More
- Learn what makes for a successful entrepreneur and small business owner
- Articulate a compelling case for a new business idea
- Professional strategies for running your own business
Through our Starting Your Own Business program, you’ll learn to:
- Apply practical strategies to identify and assess your entrepreneurial potential
- Recognize the key characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and start-up businesses
- Identify key industry success factors and conduct a competitive analysis to determine the viability of a business idea
- Develop sound marketing, financing and staffing plans for a new business
- Articulate a compelling case for a new business idea to potential investors and stakeholders
Learn more about our Starting Your Own Business program
- Anyone who is considering being their own boss and starting a business
Earning a Certificate of Completion could put you on a path to a rewarding career running your own business.
What Our Recent Graduates Say
“The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.”
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate

Krystal
Health and Social Service Skill Development graduate
“I wanted to reinvent myself and change my career path and I was able to do that.”
I wanted to be able to reinvent myself and change my career path and I was able to do that because of McMaster Continuing Education. Being a nurse, there are so many different avenues of nursing that I can try new things and continue to learn. The instructors were really understanding. When you’re working full-time, having someone that will promptly answer your questions and make time for you when you need it, they made it really easy.
Krystal
Health and Social Service Skill Development graduate

Tracy
Project Management graduate
“I am constantly reinventing myself. McMaster Continuing Education has been transformative.”
I am constantly reinventing myself. McMaster Continuing Education has been transformative. I was introduced to new ideas and new skills. Because of that, I’ve had new opportunities in my career. McMaster Continuing Education is the best place to take professional development courses. The programs fit into your life.
Tracy
Project Management graduate
“The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.”
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate
“I wanted to reinvent myself and change my career path and I was able to do that.”
I wanted to be able to reinvent myself and change my career path and I was able to do that because of McMaster Continuing Education. Being a nurse, there are so many different avenues of nursing that I can try new things and continue to learn. The instructors were really understanding. When you’re working full-time, having someone that will promptly answer your questions and make time for you when you need it, they made it really easy.
Krystal
Health and Social Service Skill Development graduate
“I am constantly reinventing myself. McMaster Continuing Education has been transformative.”
I am constantly reinventing myself. McMaster Continuing Education has been transformative. I was introduced to new ideas and new skills. Because of that, I’ve had new opportunities in my career. McMaster Continuing Education is the best place to take professional development courses. The programs fit into your life.
Tracy
Project Management graduate
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To earn the Certificate of Completion, you must complete the full 12-week course and receive a passing grade.
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