Entrepreneurship
Turn an idea into a business that pays for itself — test demand before you spend money, price for profit, win your first customers, and set the business up properly. For people starting out, and for owners whose side hustle has outgrown guesswork.
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about TZS 200,000
One payment in US dollars, handled securely by Skool.
Enrolment has not opened for this course yet.
- Length
- 6 weeks · 2 live sessions per week
- Level
- Beginner — no previous experience needed
- Taught
- Live online, in English
- Sessions
- East Africa Time (GMT+3), all recorded
- Open to
- Students anywhere in the world
- Where
- Profix community on Skool
What is included
- Live sessions, plus the recording of every one — join from any time zone
- Course materials and templates you keep
- Access to the Profix community between sessions
- Certificate of completion
- Group enrolment for teams on request
Outcomes
What you will be able to do
Not topics covered — things you will be able to do at work the week after.
Test an idea before you spend on it
Talk to real customers, run a cheap experiment, and find out whether anyone will pay — before the savings are gone.
Describe your business on one page
Customers, offer, revenue, and costs set out clearly enough that you can see where the model breaks.
Price so the business survives
Work out your real costs, set a price with margin in it, and know the point at which you break even.
Win your first customers
A simple, repeatable way to find and close early customers without an advertising budget.
Set the business up properly
Registration and licensing, basic records, and keeping business money separate from personal money from day one.
Ask for money and be taken seriously
Know the funding options open to you, what a bank or funder will ask, and how to present the numbers.
Curriculum
What the course covers
6 modules · 6 weeks · 2 live sessions per week. Open one to see what is inside it.
01Week 1 — From idea to opportunity
Problem-first thinking. Spotting a real gap in your own market. Defining who the customer is and roughly how many of them there are.
02Week 2 — Testing before building
Customer interviews that do not just collect compliments. The smallest offer you can sell. Cheap experiments and reading the result honestly.
03Week 3 — The business model
The business model canvas. Revenue streams and cost structure. Unit economics and break-even, worked through on your own numbers.
04Week 4 — Getting your first customers
Writing a value proposition. Pricing. Sales conversations for people who do not think of themselves as sellers. Low-budget marketing that works locally.
05Week 5 — Setting up the business
Registration and licensing, worked through in detail for Tanzania and Zanzibar and with a checklist for finding the equivalent in your own country. Basic record keeping. Separating business and personal money. Your first hire.
06Week 6 — Money and growth
Funding options from savings and family to SACCOS, banks, grants, and investors. Building a pitch. Deciding what to do next — and what not to.
Who teaches it
Taught by a consultancy, not a content studio
Profix has spent years fixing projects that went wrong and businesses that outgrew their systems. The courses are the teachable part of that work, delivered with our expert network behind them.
- Since 2021
- Consulting across multi-service industries
- 9 partners
- Universities, foundations and businesses
- ExNet
- A national and international network of experts
Inside the course
See how Entrepreneurship runs before you pay for it
A short walk through the course: what the live sessions are like, how much work it asks of you each week, and what you will have to show at the end of it.
How it works
How to join
All Profix courses are delivered through our community on Skool. If you have not used Skool before, it takes about two minutes.
Choose your course
Read what it covers and what you will be able to do at the end.
Join on Skool
Create a free Skool account and enrol. Skool handles payment and gives you immediate access.
Start learning
Work through the lessons at your own pace, join the live sessions, and ask questions in the community.
Community
You are not learning alone
Every course includes access to the Profix community — where you can ask questions between sessions, see how other people solved the same problem, and get direct answers from the Profix team and our expert network.
See the communityQuestions
Questions people ask
Do I need a business idea before I join?
No. The first two weeks are about finding and testing an idea, so you can arrive with nothing more than the intention to start. If you already have a business running, the same weeks work as a hard look at whether the model holds.
What is Skool and why do I need it?
Skool is the platform that hosts the course videos, materials, and community discussion. Creating an account is free and takes about two minutes. Payment and access are handled entirely by Skool.
What if I miss a live session?
Every session is recorded and posted in the community, so you can catch up in your own time and still ask questions afterwards.
Can I take this from outside Tanzania?
Yes — the courses are live online and open to students anywhere. Sessions run on East Africa Time (GMT+3) and every one is recorded, so joining from a different time zone costs you nothing but the live question-and-answer. Skool takes international cards and prices are shown in US dollars.
What language is the course taught in?
English, and all course materials are in English. Where everyone in a session happens to speak Swahili we will explain in it as well, but you never need Swahili to follow a course.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — a Profix Companies certificate of completion once you finish the course and present your final project.
Can my organisation enrol several people?
Yes. Get in touch through the contact form or on WhatsApp and we will arrange group enrolment for teams.
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