Program Format
Online
Program Type
Self-paced
Language
English,Arabic
Enrollment Status
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Applications open
01 Jan 2025
Application Close
30 Nov 2025
Program Format
Online
Program Type
Self-paced
Program Duration
2 hours
Language
English,Arabic
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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

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.

Kevin O'Leary

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.

Mudassir Sheikha

Instructor in Entrepreneurial Mindset 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.

Leah Solivan

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.

Dana Baki

Instructor in Customer Acquisition 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.

Dennis Crowley

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.

Abdulaziz Alloughani

Instructor in Business Model 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.

Gibson Biddle

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.

Abdulaziz Aljouf

Instructor in Product Management 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.

Mohammed Aldossary

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.

Ahmed Hamdan

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.

Nour Alhassan

Instructor in Team 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.

Qusai Alsaif

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.

Mohammed Alzubi

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.

Sarah Alsaleh

Instructor in Funding 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.

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan

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.

Ayman Alsanad

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.

Afnan Sherbeeni

Instructor in Market Validation MasterClass

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MasterClasses

Strategic Thinking & Decision Making

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.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Scaling & Growth

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.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Entrepreneurial Mindset

Entrepreneurial Mindset

This course reveals the soft skills and mindset of the most successful entrepreneurs, including their thoughts, behaviors and habits. You will come away with methods to cultivate powerful mindsets, tools to tackle challenges, and a new outlook that you can use to reach your entrepreneurial goals.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Customer Acquisition

Customer Acquisition

In this course, you will be taught how to identify, target, acquire and retain customers in a cost-effective manner. You will be equipped with a clear road map of how you can acquire your first 1000 users and how to build out your user base.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Business Models

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. 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.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Product Management

Product Management

In this comprehensive course, you will explore the tactical role of a product manager, the necessary skills and traits to succeed, and gain insights into the best practices for all stages of developing and launching a successful product. You will discover a framework that will help you understand how to take any idea and turn it into a minimum viable working product.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Market Validation

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. 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. 

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Funding

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. You will 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.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025
Team

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. You will 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.

Online
2 hrs
Feb 2025

Program Highlights

On Demand Content

Learn anywhere and anytime

Master Instructors

Learn from top global and regional entrepreneurs, founders and investors

Quality Production

High quality production content

Continued Learning

There are additional learning resources to ensure comprehensive learning on each entrepreneurship topic

Duration

Each Masterclass ranges from 1.5 to 2 hours

Target Audience

Current and future entrepreneurs and business leaders, and anyone interested in entrepreneurship

Program Achievements

97K+

Enrollments

99K+

Learning Hours

44K+

Graduates

Application Process

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Frequently Asked Question

<p>Anyone who is interested in learning about entrepreneurship can apply to Misk Startup School Masterclasses. There are no pre-requirements to apply.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The program duration is 13 hours, each Masterclass ranges from 1.5 to 2 hours.&nbsp;</p>

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