Business professor and entrepreneur David Standen outlines how anyone with an idea can successfully create and run a business.

Building a successful business not only comes from having a good idea but from applying your creativity to a solid business plan.

To be successful, business founders need to develop their skills in management, accounting, research, and technology.

As a business professor at the University of California, Irvine, David Standen teaches entrepreneurship and coaches founders.

Standen has launched his own companies in the U.S. and abroad, and has raised over $24 million for his clients' businesses.

In his course Essentials of Entrepreneurship: Thinking and Action, Standen outlines the necessary skills and strategies that entrepreneurs need to start and grow a business.

From evaluating an idea to choosing the right technology to run it, Standen will have your business successfully growing in no time.