6 Best Business Growth Courses for Beginners
We compared 6 Business Growth courses currently listed on Coursera, edX and Udemy, priced from $19.99 to $249.00. 1 comes from a named university or institution, including Babson College. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 6
- Price range
- $19.99 – $249.00
- Providers
- Coursera, edX, Udemy
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, edX, Udemy, matched to "business growth" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $19.99 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Fundamentals of Operations, with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Offered by Goldman Sachs
This free online course is one of 10 courses available in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection, designed for entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. In this course, you will learn about operati...
$49.00listed price -
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Marketing Fundamentals: Who Is Your Customer?
Offered by Babson College
Learn key marketing concepts to implement customer acquisition strategies to find the right customers and grow your business.
$249.00listed price -
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Fundamentals Of Marketing Partnerships
Did you know that the average contract is worth 53% more when a partner is involved? Would you like to take that next step and increase your customer reach? Would you benefit from learning the skills to build successful...
$49.99listed price -
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Fundamentals of Customer Acquisition Management
Offered by Coursera
Designed for beginners, this course bridges foundational theories with actionable strategies, enabling learners to navigate the complexities of attracting and retaining customers in today's dynamic market. Participants w...
$49.00listed price -
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Starting a Business from Scratch
Course Description: Starting a Business from ScratchReady to start your own business but don’t know where to begin? This step-by-step course will guide you through everything you need to launch and grow a successful busi...
$19.99listed price -
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Growth Marketing Fundamentals
Learn the fundamentals of growth marketing from a Silicon Valley marketer.This course is for anyone who wants to understand how growing a business works. There’s a lot of mysticism around growth hacking, growth marketing...
$49.99listed price
Best Business Growth Courses for Beginners compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Fundamentals of Operations, with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women | Coursera | Goldman Sachs | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Marketing Fundamentals: Who Is Your Customer? | edX | Babson College | $249.00 | View → |
| 3 | Fundamentals Of Marketing Partnerships | Udemy | — | $49.99 | View → |
| 4 | Fundamentals of Customer Acquisition Management | Coursera | Coursera | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Starting a Business from Scratch | Udemy | — | $19.99 | View → |
| 6 | Growth Marketing Fundamentals | Udemy | — | $49.99 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 6 priced courses on this page run from $19.99 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $49.99 — a spread of $229.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, edX and Udemy. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 1 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Babson College — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 18 September 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.