Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Your ESB certification validates foundational-level understanding of core concepts related to starting or running a small business. Your digital badge makes it easy for you to promote these abilities to potential customers, investors, or even future employers on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as email and online portfolios. Individuals can click on your badge to verify and learn more about the details of your Entrepreneurship and Small Business knowledge and certification.

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Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome. Representing your credential as a badge gives you the ability to share your skills online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time.

Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome. Representing your credential as a badge gives you the ability to share your skills online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time.

The full pathway solution to ESB certification

The full solution for ESB includes many additions to the learning materials, including a professional development course for teachers developed by The National Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (Entre-Ed). It also includes the Entrepreneurial Mindset Index (EMI) developed by NFTE, allowing learners to discover their own strengths and weaknesses through this self assessment. The EMI was designed to be delivered before and after learning the objective domains which allows for learners to explore how the course has influenced their mindset and which archetype they most closely align to.

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Entrepreneurship and Small Business Certification

The ESB certification is built to test and validate foundation-level concepts and knowledge in entrepreneurship and small business management. These core concepts include entrepreneurship; recognizing and evaluating opportunities; planning for, starting, and operating a business; marketing and sales; venture capital and seed funding; and financial management.

Country-Specific Exam versus Universal Exam

  • ESB Country-specific exams test on specific knowledge about doing business in a particular country. Currency and terminology is targeted to specific countries. ESB candidates should select a country-specific exam when available.
  • ESB Universal exams are suitable for any ESB candidate around the world. All currencies are in Euros.

All ESB exams use the same Objective Domains and are delivered through Certiport.
 
See www.certiport.com/products  for a complete list of available ESB exams.

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Master Certification in Entrepreneurship

The Master Certification in Entrepreneurship is the next step in validating an understanding of essential business principles, but expands the scope to include design thinking. This certification is earned by completing the ESB certification as well as Intuit’s Design for Delight Innovator Certification. The Design for Delight Innovator certification focuses on three domains surrounding design thinking:

  • Deep Customer Empathy – Understanding customers, their pain points, and reasons for their actions to help innovate and discover solutions.
  • Go Broad to Go Narrow – Brainstorming broad potential solutions and then narrowing those to determine which will most likely delight the customer and solve the problem.
  • Rapid Experiments with Customers – Experimenting and testing solutions with real customers to determine if problems will be solved.

Successfully completing the Design for Delight Innovator Certification and the Entrepreneurship in Small Business Certifcation v.2, will result in being awarded the Master Certification in Entrepreneurship. 

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