This 3 hour, online, introductory SYOB intensive programme, offers business start-up guidance and support to enable participants to acquire the skills, knowledge and confidence to decide if they are suited to self-employment and learn what is involved in running their own business.
Aimed at entrepreneurs with an ambition to establish a competitive well managed sustainable business. This short intensive boot-camp is designed to introduce potential entrepreneurs to the concepts associated with running a small business. Attendees will also gain an understanding of how to assess if their idea will work and develop skills on how to write a business/action plan.
Workshop Overview
- The Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster (Multimedia)
- Secrets of small business success (and failure)
- What’s the idea and what inspired it?
- Introduction to the Business Plan
- Marketing
- Routes to Market – options & advantages
- Sample Business Models (with examples from Irish SMEs & HPSUs)
- Financial Planning
- Legal Issues
- The Business Plan
- Financial Supports
- Next Steps for you
- Financial Supports
- Training Supports
- Mentoring / Funding Options
Learning Outcomes / Deliverables
On completion of this workshop, participants will have:
- A clear understanding of the boot-camp methodology
- Reviewed the rules of business
- An understanding of what a comprehensive Feasibility study entails.
- Insights in terms of Business Strategy
- Understand the competition and its impact on the business
- Gained an understanding of entrepreneurial traits
- Reviewed the Business Plan
- A great appreciation of why some businesses succeed while other fail.
- An insight into the tools required to undertake market research
- Understand how a business makes the journey from pre-startup business concept to established business and the Enterprise Agency supports that apply
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