Top online business courses 📔

Idea validation: from idea to paying customer in one day

By ; Evan Kimbrell on udemy

This course is a great started on how to validate your idea with your target audience. This is the best first part of building an online business. As the title says, it takes you from an idea to your first paying customer.

✅ Very informative step by step guide and easy to follow
❌ As it states, it takes you to your first paying customer, there are a lot of step after that

💰 Only $94,99 (but sales happen all the time with 80% off)

Launching an online business

By; Lewis Howes on creativelive.com

Lewis has a great course about launching an online business where takes you through a step by step program. As a lot of the courses, it can be difficult sometimes to see how this course would replicate to your business idea. But the blueprint is a great starting point

✅ Great and fun course 
❌ Might need a bit more specific course for what you are building

💰 $104 (Wait for a sale to happen)

The lean startup

By ; Eris Ries on Udemy

Based on the lean startup book Eric Ries has created this great course to take you through the steps of creating your own MVP and testing it with potential customers. It is a great approach to validate your idea with the least amount of cost. 

✅ Very popular new way of building a business
❌ Might not be specific enough for your business idea

💰 $24.99 (80% sale happens all the time)

Business Bootcamp: 7 weeks to start your own business

By ; Phil Ebiner on Udemy

Business Bootcamp takes you from building your business from scratch. You don’t need any preparation for this course. You will look at the audience you want to target and what skills you have to leverage them and build your own business.

✅ Very nice to have a group of experts shows you the ropes.
❌ Can be complicated sometimes when it doesn’t need to be if you are building something simple

💰 $129 (but $18.99 on sale)

Art of start; Turning ideas into high-growth businesses

By ; Guy Kawasaki on Skillshare

Guy Kawaski is an internet entrepreneur legend with tons of experience in starting a business. He packs all this experience into this course on skillshare. It’s a course more towards how to get into a starting state of mind than a step by step guide, but still a very good course.

✅ Guy Kawasaki is just a great mentor to learn from
❌ Not a step by step guide about building an online business

💰 Part of the Skillshare network

The new business toolbox

By ; Seth Godin

Ever since Seth Godin wrote the “Purple Cow” marketing book he is on our radar. He is a very inspiring entrepreneur that has some great books, but now also offers a course about all the new business tools you can use to build your own online business.

✅ Great look into some tools you can use to build your own online business
❌ Not a step by step guide

💰 $19 per course