The Entrepreneur’s Toolkit
There's lots to learn if you want to run your own business, so check out some of the topics and links below to grow your knowledge. Over time, more resources will be added to the Embrace Entrepreneurship section of the Personal Best app.
Business Planning and Market Research
- The Business Model Canvas – an ever-evolving tool in putting together your business plan in detail.
- Create your own business model canvas here is available on the Personal Best app and start to fill in the building blocks to your business plan!”
- You can also try Sage’s ‘how to’ on using the Business Model Canvas
- Value Proposition and Customer Markets - Value Proposition is a framework to ensure there is a fit between your product/service and its market, while customer profiles looks at the needs and wants of your target market.
- How to put together a pitch
- Interested in getting started in networking but not sure how? Curious about being your own boss but not sure where to start? Further guidance and information on this and more is available in the Innovative & Enterprising Badge on Personal Best. Why not complete the badge to up-skill yourself and take your next steps in completing your Personal Best award!
- Networking – tips on how to prepare, approach and reflect on networking events
- One of our partners, British Business Bank, offers some guidance on your business finances.
- Santander, another of our partners, offers funding opportunities and programmes for your enterprise development.
Intellectual Property and Legal Know How
- How to register your business as a sole trader
- A guide on the different forms a business can take: sole trader, partnership and limited company
- Contracts and NDAs
- Intellectual Property (IP) – the different types and do I need it?
- Intellectual Property – Top Tips!
- So you think you want IP? – IP Audits and applications