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Intro to Digital Business Management

This course equips students with higher-level business concepts, savvy data-driven strategies, and leveraged technology techniques to start and scale any business with minimal risk. It is designed to prepare students with digital business management know-how that will make them attractive for an entry-level job in business management with small to mid-sized businesses.

Prerequisite

basic digital office skills

Mentor(s)

Course Schedule:

This course is not currently scheduled. Please sign up if you want to get this course soon.

Tech Foundations 3: Web, Data and IT

This course introduces students to basic Web, Data and Information Technology (IT) skills they will need to pursue a digital techology career. Whether working in-person or remotely, at a small company or a global enterprise, nearly every employee uses a computer. Success on the job starts with basic IT skills.

Course Schedule:

This course is not currently scheduled. Please sign up if you want to get this course soon.

HVTech Reinvigoration

Based on our First HVTech workshop brainstorming on October 6th, we came up with the following:

Purpose (answering the question, "Why is this work important to you and the larger community?") We expressed purposes that included making local technical work and knowledge visible, shared, and part of our everyday life.  People also expressed sentiment about including more people and providing...

Intro to Data Analytics

This course prepares students for an entry level Data Analyst position while teaching the essential software and trending programming skills.

 

Prerequisite

basic MS Excel / GSuite Sheets

Course Schedule:

This course is not currently scheduled. Please sign up if you want to get this course soon.

Techstars Startup Weekend Hudson Valley

An Immersive Three-Day Experience Offers Entrepreneurs Opportunity to Pitch & Launch New Ventures in Front of All-Star cast of Local Investors, Mentors, and Judges (In Person).

Dates: July 9th-11th

The 54-hour event will be held at the Barnfox Work & Retreat Club in the Stockade District, located on 291 Wall St, 4th floor, Kingston, NY 12401.

The kick off on Friday, July 9th at 6pm will feature an industry mixer event bringing the regions investors, mentors, and entrepreneurs together for the first time since the pandemic.

Data Analytics II - course experience

We were so impressed by seeing this  week's team competition for Data Analytics II. Where has the time gone?

Excited to see the course finished with great learning results demonstrated! Amazing growth revealed during the Team competition - you can share our excitedment watching it here: https://youtu.be/UBibf1FbtjM

Saying that, let us summarize the experience.

Here are just some of the...

Data Driven 102: Decision Making for Small Businesses

Data-Driven 102: Decision Making for Small Businesses

Understanding business analytics is an essential skill for the small business owner or manager. Non-for-profits also need to create transparent, measurable dashboards and set of metrics that could be used for data driven reporting and decision making.

During our previous workshop we introduced a data Driven framework, and reviewed a use case for a local small bakery.