Department of Da Vinci Center

About the Program

Open to all VCU undergraduate students, the 13-credit Certificate in Venture Creation allows undergraduate students to develop a venture creation mindset that embraces a multidisciplinary perspective for successful entrepreneurialism and venture creation. You will hone understandings of the challenges, skills and resources necessary for venture creation and, through the capstone experience, integrate these understandings around conceiving, planning and implementing a real venture.

The certificate enables students to learn and do entrepreneurship. In this program you will:

• Develop multidisciplinary venture creation models.
• Effectively identify and address strategies.
• apply venture creation skills to create, plan and implement a venture.
• Effectively communicate verbally and in writing.