Recently the government tried to show its support for Entrepreneurs within the UK by getting behind only to be described as one part inspirational speaking, and the second part a website that people have mixed opinions on.
The intention is good and somewhere that intention has been lost
Whats the answer? is it discount codes? I say no. Inspiration provided by well known speakers can in fact be great, but like most events inspiration dissipates afterwards as some could argue “we want something more” but may not be able to articulate exactly what they need so they provided links to buy stuff.
I think something that can improve your life is simply training and techniques, in the UK BusinessLink will be revamped, but will it actually help? Has it helped so far?
I think Startup Britain should be about practical techniques that must be about increasing the chances of success.
What techniques am I talking about? as luck would have it Stanford has pushed the boat forward providing some of their courses online FREE; now thats what a startup needs, not an extra barrier (as a monetary drain). Its not British, but I am. It doesn’t cost anything to check it out, so why not? inspiration fused with something that is actionable and generic enough to be helpful backed by research.
Listed below are practical business approaches that can be used to apply to create a new business; what would you add? please comment and retweet if possible and see if the spirit of startup britain still exist?
Get some money from the goverment finally!
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/eis/index.htm
Stanford Entrepreneurial Course, free online! could take you a couple of hours flicking through http://e145.stanford.edu/session1
Understand the money factors around Venture Capital, blog weekly http://www.venturehacks.com
The guy behind the Stanford list above, could take a couple of weeks reading as its a blog http://www.steveblank.com
Four Steps to Epiphany Abridged from Steve Blank, a couple of hours reading http://www.stanford.edu/group/e145/cgi-bin/winter/drupal/upload/handouts/Four_Steps.pdf
Learn Pivoting (a way of changing market direction) , he is making it more commercial slowly selling a book based off his blog slowly http://www.startuplessonslearned.com
Dave McClure created his startup metric framework to make you think about objects around AARRR, 20 minutes to flick through http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pirates-long-version
Lean Startup + Customer Development + Bootstrapping, weekly blog http://www.ashmaurya.com/
Business model generation, a way of describing business models visually to understand yourself and communicate to others, 2 hours effort http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/downloads/businessmodelgeneration_preview.pdf
Remember this is a place to get started, look through the materials, watch the videos, you get out what you put in
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