Looking for guidance for your journalism startup? We have gathered lessons and advice from journalism entrepreneurs and experts to provide you comprehensive training on the mechanics behind building a business.

The interactive courses and on-demand video replays in this series will show you the ropes, point you to the right resources and help you formulate the questions you most need answers to. When you're done, you will have a solid understanding of what it takes to build a successful entrepreneurial business, from idea to operation to making a profit.

This package includes:

• Innovation at Work: Helping New Ideas Succeed, with Mark Briggs. You'll explore the craft of innovation – one you can learn about, practice and hone.

• Becoming an Entrepreneurial Journalist: From Idea to Implementation, with Mark Briggs. Get the basics about the knowledge and tools you need to launch a content-driven news/information website.

• Entrepreneurial Journalism: Revenue and Marketing, with Mark Briggs. Explore business strategies and build a money-making plan for your new news site.

• Entrepreneurial Journalism: Running the Business, with Jeremy Caplan. Learn about business structures, metrics, terminology, frameworks and best practices in successful small journalism businesses.

• Journalism Entrepreneurs: Planning and Making Money From Events, with Rebecca Lovell. You can build huge momentum around your brand and its product with events. Learn how to plan and carry out events large and small, and why you need both.

• Six Traits of Successful Entrepreneurial Journalists, with Mark Briggs. In this Webinar replay, you'll see how digital news startups make it work, from smart content decisions to diversified revenue models and savvy use of social media.

Complete each of the courses in this certificate program, then take the assessments for each one. Questions from each assessment will cover content from each course. You'll have three chances to pass each assessment.

Unlike traditional quizzes and activities from Poynter's NewsU, these assessments won't tell you the answers. So make sure you study hard when you take the courses.