Misk Startup School MasterClasses

Misk Startup School offers world-class online courses to inspire, educate, and empower future leaders

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Program Format

Online

Program Type

Self-paced

Program Duration

13 hours

Language

English,Arabic

Enrollment Status

Applications open

Applications open

01 Jan 2024

Applications close

31 Dec 2024

Program Format

Online

Program Type

Self-paced

Program Duration

13 hours

Language

English,Arabic

Enroll Now

Introduction

Program Overview

Misk Startup School Masterclasses are online entrepreneurship classes where current and aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders can learn about key entrepreneurship topics from globally successful founders and leaders who have built and scaled successful startups.

Our Masterclasses are designed to introduce you to foundational concepts in entrepreneurship. They're structured to teach fundamental entrepreneurship principles and best practices to create and scale a successful high-impact entrepreneurial venture.

Program Outcomes

Master key skills in entrepreneurship and learn how to think like an entrepreneur.
Learn how to identify, target, acquire and retain customers in a cost-effective manner.
Create your own business model canvas and better understand what the building blocks of any successful business are.
Discover how to take any idea and turn it into a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Learn how to determine or validate if there’s an actual need for your product.
Deep dive into what it takes to fundraise and how to raise money for your business.
Learn how to build and lead strong teams and create an organization that inspires.

Skills You Will Gain

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication and Networking

Strategic Thinking and Planning

Critical Thinking

Team Building

Financial Management

Customer Management

Meet the Instructors

Kevin O'Leary | Instructor in Entrepreneurial Mindset MasterClass

A serial entrepreneur and investor on Shark Tank. He turned a small company into a computer software giant that was acquired for more than $4 billion dollars, and later launched O’Leary Funds, an investment fund company.

Mudassir Sheikha | Instructor in Entrepreneurial Mindset MasterClass

Co-Founder & CEO at Careem in 2012. He started his career working with startups across the US and Pakistan, and then joined McKinsey in the UAE as a management consultant.

Leah Solivan | Instructor in Customer Acquisition MasterClass

Founder & Former CEO at TaskRabbit. As TaskRabbit’s CEO for 8 years, Leah scaled the company to 44 cities and raised more than $50 million.

Dana Baki | Instructor in Customer Acquisition MasterClass

Co-Founder and COO of MUNCH:ON. Dana was a Partner of Business Development at AlJal Capital and worked for Procter & Gamble in the United States for 7+ years.

Dennis Crowley | Instructor in Business Model MasterClass

Co-Founder & Co-Chair at Foursquare. He founded Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google in 2005. He has been named one of Fortune's "40 Under 40", and was previously an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Abdulaziz Alloughani | Instructor in Business Model MasterClass

Founder & CEO at Floward. He is the Managing Partner at Faith Capital and a member of Endeavor. Previously, he was a co-founder and CEO of Talabat.com, and Director at Global Capital Management.

Gibson Biddle | Instructor in Product Management MasterClass

Former Chief Product Officer at Chegg. He spent five years transforming Netflix from a startup to an industry dominator as the VP of Product Management. He helped grow their consumer base from 2 million to 13 million.

Abdulaziz Aljouf | Instructor in Product Management MasterClass

Founder & CEO at PayTabs. Forbes Middle East recognizes Abdulaziz Aljouf and PayTabs as one of the key CEO’s and payment players in the region. He has over 7 CEO Excellence Awards for his hallmark contributions to the fintech and payments space.

Mohammed Aldossary | Instructor in Team MasterClass

CEO and Co-founder of Sary. He was an ex-General manager in Careem where he led the development of delivery vertical in KSA and oversaw the launch of CareemNOW.

Ahmed Hamdan | Instructor in Team MasterClass

CEO of Unifonic. Mr. Hamdan brings his experience from a 15-year career at Saudi ICT companies, where he worked in different technical and business roles.

Nour Alhassan | Instructor in Team MasterClass

Founder of Tarjama. Al Hassan is a female founder and CEO of two companies that specialize in linguistic services and translation, Tarjama and UREED. She has more than 15 years of experience, is an Aspen Fellow, and certified life coach.

Qusai Alsaif | Instructor in Funding MasterClass

CEO at Saudi Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. Alsaif is skilled in sourcing and identifying great investment opportunities, structuring Funds and Deals. Strong negotiation, analytical, and relationship building skills.

Mohammed Alzubi | Instructor in Funding MasterClass

Managing Director of Nama Ventures. Alzubi has over 23 years of experience in the Technology and Tech investment space. He was the managing director of Tharwa Capital. He is also the founder and CEO of Sulaf Solutions.

Sarah Alsaleh | Instructor in Funding MasterClass

Senior Associate at STV. Prior to being an investor, Sarah was leading the Middle East desk analytics and operations at Dataminr.

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan | Instructor in Market Validation MasterClass

Alsukhan is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tamara. He is also the Co-founder of Nana. This serial entrepreneur has raised over $215 million in funding.

Ayman Alsanad | Instructor in Market validation MasterClass

Founder of Marsool, an on-demand delivery network with GMV over 2 billion SR. He is an ex-director at King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University hospital.

Afnan Sherbeeni | Instructor in Market Validation MasterClass

Afnan is the Co-founder and leading the products at Sabbar. She helped build Wateen and Kicked-off the product department at Dopravo.

Chris Barton | Instructor in Strategic Thinking & Decision Making MasterClass

Co-Founder & CEO of Shazam. This groundbreaking technology, utilized over 20 million times daily, revolutionized song identification. Apple acquired Shazam in 2018 for USD $400 million, marking it Apple’s sixth-largest acquisition. Chris previously worked at Google, Dropbox and Microsoft.

Niklas Östberg | Instructor in Scaling & Growth MasterClass

Co-Founder & CEO of Delivery Hero. Niklas started Delivery Hero in Berlin, and later scaled it globally to achieve a billion-dollar IPO to become one of the world's leading food delivery platforms. Delivery Hero currently operates in 70+ countries across four continents, including in Saudi Arabia through HungerStation, Carriage, Zomato and Talabat.

Ahmad AlZaini | Instructor in Strategic Thinking & Decision Making MasterClass

Co-Founder & CEO of Foodics. Foodics is the leading cloud-based payments platform for restaurants in the MENA region. They have achieved significant success, raising USD 170 million, which is the largest SaaS Series C funding round in the MENA region.

Mohammad Almadani | Instructor in Scaling & Growth MasterClass

Co-Founder & CEO of Classera. Mohammad scaled Classera to become a leading global EdTech platform, and the largest in MENA, educating millions of learners in 40+ countries around the world. Classera closed the largest EdTech funding round in MENA, with a USD 40 million Series A.

MasterClasses

Strategic Thinking & Decision Making

This course offers a comprehensive understanding of essential business strategy, entrepreneurial strategic thinking, creating value for startup growth, and equips you with tools for making effective decisions in the startup world.

2 hrs Online

Scaling & Growth

In this course, you'll explore the fundamental concepts of scaling and growth while developing a clear strategy that will support the growth of your startup. You'll learn how to drive exponential growth, leverage data-driven decision-making, and recognize the crucial role of fostering a growth mindset.

2 hrs Online

Entrepreneurial Mindset

This course reveals the soft skills and mindset of the most successful entrepreneurs, including their thoughts, behaviors and habits.

2 hrs Online

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It offers innovative thinkers, a comprehensive learning experience and the key to entrepreneurial thinking. You will come away with methods to cultivate powerful mindsets, tools to tackle challenges, and a new outlook that you can use to reach any goal you have.

Customer Acquisition

In this course, you will be taught how to identify, target, acquire and retain customers in a cost-effective manner.

2 hrs Online

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The course will reveal how to create a robust, end-to-end, customer acquisition strategy by learning the leading techniques of customer discovery, targeting, marketing and retention.  You will be equipped with a clear road map of how you can acquire your first one thousand users and how to build out your user base.

Business Models

In this fundamental course, you will explore the nature of business models, learn how to position your model in a competitive landscape, and understand how to design your organization's model to create value.

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You will develop the ability to complete your own business model canvas and learn how to adapt your business model for an ever-changing world. You will learn also how business models are established, reimagined, and how they have evolved to disrupt global industries.

Product Management

In this comprehensive course, you will explore the tactical role of a product manager, the necessary skills and traits of successful product managers, and gain insights into the best practices for all stages of developing and launching a successful product.

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You will discover a framework that will help you understand how to take any idea and turn it into a minimum viable working product. You will also get a glimpse into the multi-faceted role of a successful product manager, and steps they take when creating and launching groundbreaking products across a variety of industries.

Market Validation

In this course, you will discover how to assess whether there is genuine demand for your product within the market or verify its necessity.

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It’s important to validate your idea early in the entrepreneurial process to ensure that you are building something that people or companies actually need and are willing to pay for. 

Funding

In this course, you will learn the basics of funding and will deep dive into how to fundraise or raise money to your business.

2 hrs Online

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Learn about the different ways that you can raise money for your startup, the differences in fundraising rounds, equity dilution and how to best prepare for investor meetings. 

Team

This course teaches you how to build a founding team, how to think about splitting equity amongst team members and how to define roles and responsibilities in your team.

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Learn how to build and lead strong teams, and how to recruit the best talents in your startup, by defining your goals, values, and skills.

Program Highlights