Resources
Practical business knowledge for the decision in front of you
Searches Resources, founder stories and other useful reading across this publication.
Strategy & Planning
Turn your business vision into a plan
Use the Orbit model to map the turnover, customers, team, marketing and funding your next stage of growth may require.
Strategy & Planning
Lean Canvas: Explained
A Lean Canvas gets your business idea onto one page, making gaps and assumptions harder to ignore.
Strategy & Planning
Lean Canvas explained in 90 seconds
Use the Lean Canvas to capture a business idea quickly, spot gaps and decide what needs testing.
The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber’s book helps small-business owners examine founder dependence and decide where repeatable processes could support the work.
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries’s book helps founders test consequential assumptions before building a complete product, programme or new offer.
Ideas & Offers
How to build a sharing economy business
How to turn one underused tent into a peer-to-peer marketplace - and what it takes to make a sharing model work.
Company of One
Paul Jarvis’s book helps independent business owners decide what growth should deliver before adding size or complexity.
Strategy & Planning
How to set SMART business goals
Turn a broad ambition into a goal you can measure, review and act on over the next 12 months.
Strategy & Planning
Five things to know about unconscious bias
Unconscious bias shapes more business decisions than you might realise. Here are five things to know.
Strategy & Planning
Business Model vs Business Plan: What’s the Difference?
A business model explains how a business works; a business plan explains what happens next.
Mindset & Wellbeing
How to Boost Productivity with Pomodoro & Ultradian Rhythms
Learn how to pace yourself while achieving more of your goals in this 30-minute lesson in productivity powered by Skillshare.