Business plan courses can help you learn market analysis, financial forecasting, operational planning, and effective pitching techniques. You can build skills in identifying target audiences, crafting value propositions, and developing marketing strategies. Many courses introduce tools like SWOT analysis, business model canvases, and financial modeling software, which can enhance your ability to create comprehensive and persuasive business plans.

Skills you'll gain: Financial Data, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Spreadsheet Software, Excel Formulas, Microsoft 365, Mortgage Loans, Loans, Timelines
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Interactive Brokers
Skills you'll gain: Supply And Demand, Market Dynamics, Consumer Behaviour, Economics, Business Economics, Resource Allocation, Production Process
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Corporate Finance Institute
Skills you'll gain: Financial Trading, Financial Market, Market Data, Economics, Capital Markets, Market Dynamics, Financial Policy, Business Economics, General Finance, Securities Trading, Banking, Economics, Policy, and Social Studies, Investment Management, Market Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Skills you'll gain: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Systems, Forecasting, Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Materials Management, Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Management, Purchasing, Financial Forecasting, Inventory Management System, Process Improvement, Accounts Payable, Working Capital, Cash Management, Supplier Quality Management
Advanced · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Dataflow, Data Pipelines, Data Processing, Real Time Data, Pandas (Python Package), File I/O, Data Transformation, Jupyter, SQL
Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Competitive Analysis, Customer Analysis, Customer Insights, Value Propositions, Company, Product, and Service Knowledge, Business Modeling, Competitive Intelligence, Business Analysis Tools, Presentations, Product Knowledge, Data Import/Export, Marketing, Collaborative Software
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Employee Surveys, Surveys, User Feedback, Security Awareness, Business Software, Data Sharing, Email Automation, Collaborative Software, Business Technologies
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

SkillUp
Skills you'll gain: Systems Design, Business Process Modeling, Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs), Systems Analysis, Data Modeling, Process Modeling, Business Systems Analysis, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Modeling, Risk Management, Business Systems, Systems Architecture, Business Analysis, Information Technology, Process Flow Diagrams, Prototyping, Computer Science, Agile Methodology, Product Lifecycle Management, Business Communication
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Skills you'll gain: Traffic Flow Optimization, Transportation Operations, Civil Engineering, Network Routing, Supply And Demand, Systems Thinking, Network Analysis, Network Model, Mathematical Modeling, Behavioral Economics, Economics, Algorithms, Model Optimization
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of California, Davis
Skills you'll gain: Fundraising, Gift Accounting, Fundraising and Crowdsourcing, Philanthropy, Tax Planning, Marketing Planning, Customer Relationship Building, Developing Training Materials, Tax Management, Accounting and Finance Software, Income Tax, Marketing Strategies, Relationship Building, Estate Planning, Benefits Administration, Tax Compliance, Marketing Materials, Administration, Policy Development, Tax
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Vanderbilt University
Skills you'll gain: Generative AI Agents, AI Enablement, AI Orchestration, AI Workflows, Agentic Workflows, Dashboard, Dashboard Creation, Claude Code, Decision Intelligence, AI Product Strategy, Anthropic Claude, AI Personalization, Agentic systems, Generative AI, ChatGPT, Prompt Engineering, Multimodal Prompts, AI Integrations, Prompt Engineering Tools, Prompt Patterns
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Model Evaluation, Responsible AI, Exploratory Data Analysis, Histogram, Predictive Modeling, Data Visualization, Predictive Analytics, Data Preprocessing, Machine Learning, Policy Analysis, Statistical Methods, Data Science, Descriptive Statistics, Data Ethics, Economics, Policy, and Social Studies, Development Environment, Software Engineering
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours