From Plan to Performance: Venture Implementation

Execution is where entrepreneurial vision becomes reality. This course shows you how to assemble the right people, align them around shared goals, and create the structures that help new ventures or internal initiatives move forward. Whether you’re preparing to hire, raise capital, form partnerships, or lead innovation inside an established organization, you’ll learn how to translate plans into meaningful progress.

Drawing on insights from Wharton faculty and proven entrepreneurial frameworks, you’ll learn how to structure ventures, build teams or partnerships, raise or deploy resources, and manage the relationships that enable a venture to grow.

This course helps you bridge from planning to execution. By the end, you will be able to:

·        Understand what kinds of relationships — co-founders, employees, partners, advisors, investors — you need for your venture to succeed

·        Build and structure a founding team or core group aligned with the venture’s mission, values, skills, and goals

·        Develop a strategic plan for resources, capital, and operations necessary to launch or scale

·        Communicate a compelling value proposition, story, and vision to attract partners, investors, collaborators, or team members

·        Manage early-stage governance, roles, and responsibilities — including decision making, equity/ownership, and governance (where relevant)

·        Create an actionable launch roadmap, including milestones, timelines, roles, and feedback/iteration loops