Training
Entrepreneurship & Business
From an idea to a registered, priced, recorded business — with the numbers written down and a plan you can show a lender.
Plenty of people can make something well and still lose money doing it. This programme is about the other half: pricing, records, customers and cash.
It ends with a business plan you have actually tested, and a pitch you have delivered to a real audience.
What you will be able to do
- Test whether an idea has real customers before you spend money
- Price your work so it pays you for your time
- Keep records you can actually use
- Separate business money from your own
- Write and deliver a pitch for funding
What you need to start
- An idea, a skill or an existing small business
- A notebook for your figures
- Willingness to attend the in-person clinics
Curriculum
4 module(s) · 15 lesson(s)
Deciding what you sell, to whom, and why they would pay.
- What makes a business, not a hobby
- Testing an idea before you spend
- Writing your offer in one sentence
Costs, pricing and the records that keep you out of trouble.
- Working out what it truly costs you
- Pricing so the work is worth doing
- Keeping records you will actually keep
- Separating business money from your own
Customers, suppliers and staying legal.
- Finding and keeping customers
- Dealing with suppliers
- Registering your business in Cameroon
- Practical: Business clinic
Planning ahead, and asking other people for money.
- Writing a business plan people will read
- Where the money comes from
- Pitching in five minutes
- Practical: Pitch day
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