As a part of our ongoing dedication to small enterprise success, we’re introducing an expanded Amazon Small Enterprise Academy (ASBA) that features a suite of free, interactive assets to assist help entrepreneurs from idea to launch and past. ASBA affords entry to foundational enterprise schooling and trade specialists that may assist aspiring and present small enterprise homeowners speed up their success in launching a digital enterprise.
The brand new ASBA expertise options three self-service academic tracks—Begin, Construct, and Launch—for a customizable expertise primarily based on the place entrepreneurs are of their business trip.
The brand new curriculum addresses each the enterprise fundamentals and delicate abilities small enterprise homeowners must construct self-reliance, confidence, and perseverance. This system was designed in partnership with the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Group (CEO), the premier entrepreneurship community with over 250 chapters on college campuses throughout the globe. Along with informing ASBA’s curriculum, CEO’s bench of specialists—together with professors and small enterprise homeowners in residence—will take part in reside weekly “workplace hours” as a complement to academic webinars and on-demand studying.
“Beginning a enterprise is a leap of religion and might appear overwhelming at instances. We constructed Amazon Small Enterprise Academy to be the go-to useful resource for early-stage entrepreneurs to achieve constructing a strong on-line enterprise basis,” mentioned Danyel Surrency Jones, director and head of Amazon’s Small Enterprise Academy. “Whether or not you need to take step one in beginning your small business or flip your facet hustle into your full-time job, Amazon Small Enterprise Academy is designed to assist take your small business to the subsequent stage, at your tempo.”
Along with the tutorial curriculum, entrepreneurs and small enterprise homeowners can study by means of audio content material by way of the That is Small Enterprise podcast, the place every episode unpacks key enterprise choices in a small enterprise proprietor’s journey to success. Stay engagement alternatives are additionally accessible with our new digital occasion sequence known as Founders Desk, which explores completely different matters from the distinctive views of enterprise specialists and small enterprise homeowners. The sequence contains hearth chats, case research, and different choices. The premiere Founders Desk occasion on February 9 featured Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor and co-founder of Girls Who Launch, and Michelle Pusateri, founding father of Nana Joes Granola. Throughout the inaugural Founders Desk occasion, which will be seen right here, Friar and Pusateri dove into the well timed matter of “navigating your small enterprise in financial uncertainty.”
Together with Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Group (CEO), we’re proud to companion with organizations that share our mission to empower entrepreneurs, together with Girls Who Launch, D’Aniello Institute for Veterans and Army Households (IVMF), Whats up Alice, and the SCORE Basis by means of the SCORE Better Chesapeake & Potomac District.
Almost 60% of merchandise offered in Amazon’s retailer come from promoting companions—most of that are small and medium-sized companies—and we’ll proceed to put money into assets to present entrepreneurs and small enterprise homeowners entry to steering and data to assist them succeed.
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