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Analyze your team's delivery potential by assessing the likes, dislikes, strengths and weaknesses of your team members.
Use our Team Skills Canvas to analyze the skills in your team and identify any gaps or areas of overlap.
Several startup founders discuss the importance of a strong founding team, share some lessons and offer their advice.
Dimitrios Terzis, the founder of Medusoil, explains the importance of building a strong founding team.
Hans-Jörg Dennig and Adrian Burri, the founders of BICAR, explain the importance of building a strong founding team.
Daniel Meppiel, co-founder of WeGaw, explains their fundraising strategy and gives tips on raising money from investors.
Laurent Coulot, CEO of Insolight, explains their fundraising strategy and offers advice on raising money from investors.
Florent Héroguel, COO of Bloom Renewables, explains their fundraising strategy and shares advice on raising money.
A 7-part canvas that you can use to assess your funding needs and identify different sources of funding.
A short animated clip introducing the topic of fundraising and the different types of funding available to a startup.
Is your idea of what makes a social business consistent for different types of business and organisation?
Use our Value Proposition Design canvas to develop value proposition prototypes for different customer segments.
Learn what a value proposition is, why it is important and how to design one using our Value Proposition Design Canvas.
Find out what it takes to build an effective founding team and focus on building a successful business.
Isabel Brücher and Emily Elsner show you how to complete our 7 canvases for designing a social business.
These 7 canvases help you develop your business from idea through to impact measurement.
Learn about the concept and different types of social enterprises as well as the important topic of impact assessment.
A practical guide to designing a social business, from idea to impact measurement.
A short downloadable introduction to the topic of social businesses.
A short downloadable summary that compares the main ways to protect your Intellectual Property (IP).
A fun game that tests your knowledge of the basic attributes of Patents, Copyright, Trademarks and Design Rights.
Play this fun game to test your knowledge of the different terms you might encounter on the Profit & Loss Statement.
Find out what investors are looking for in a pitch and what they think and feel while they are watching a pitch.
Use our Pitch Canvas to help you craft a story for your business and structure a pitch for early-stage investors.
Great slides can really make a difference - here are some tools and resources to help you create them.
Our complete guide to creating a pitch deck for early-stage investors, including questions and tips for each slide.
Pitching is a performance and can be nerve-racking, so we've assembled some tips that will help build your confidence.
Our rules for delivering a winning pitch, based on our experience training thousands of startups.
Here, we provide a short summary of financial key terms, their definitions and their common synonyms.
This document explains the highlights of the Cash Flow Statement using a concrete example.
This document explains the highlights of the Profit & Loss Statement using a concrete example.
A simple-to-use spreadsheet that takes you through the process of building your sales, costs and investment forecasts.
Slicing Pie is a popular equity split calculator invented by entrepreneur Mike Moyer.
Two lawyers share their perspectives of why a Shareholders' Agreement is important and what aspects it should include.
Marc Lehmann, CEO of Saasu, provides a calculation methodology that helps decide the equity split in your startup.
Find out whether to coach, delegate, direct or excite your team members using this simple framework.
Entrepreneur and investor Sam Altman explains how to recruit a team to execute your plan.
Legendary founder Steve Jobs explains why you should build a team focussed on content, not process.
Read this article and learn how to build the ideal founding team.
How many founders are too many, and how many are too few and how do you divide equity amongst co-founders?
The top 7 ways that both investors and founders can value an early-stage startup.
An introduction to the four main types of crowdfunding: equity-based; debt-based; rewards-based; and donation-based.
Successful entrepreneur Jay Adelson explains what the different rounds of startup funding are called and why.
Find out about the major aspects of shareholders' agreements, including term sheets, investment agreements etc.
Convertible notes are a great way for early-stage tech companies to raise capital, but how do they work?
Startup guru Seth Godin explains how nonprofits can use storytelling to spread their mission and raise funds.
Mikael Thuneberg, founder of Supermetrics discusses the pros and cons of bootstrapping versus taking investment.
Tips from an expert presenter on how to design each slide of your pitch deck for investors.
The founder of one of the most successful startup accelerators in the world explains how to build a better pitch deck.
Use these templates to experiment with creating different versions of your value proposition for customers.
A team of scientists have found that investors are 12% more interested in investing when frequent gestures are used.
Learn how to create a "blue ocean" of uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant.
No matter what type of business you want to create, it helps to start with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
A short animated film explaining how to create a basic product-market fit survey.
Validate your business idea using The Lean Startup method and the concept of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
A TED Talk by Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Product Playbook, explaining how to achieve Product-Market Fit.
A member of the team at Strategyzer offers some best practice tips for developing a value proposition.
A short video explaining how to use the Value Proposition Canvas developed by Alex Osterwalder.
We have partnered with impactforecast.org to provide impact forecasting tools for social and environmental businesses.
Here is an example of sustainability reporting from the multinational consumer goods company Unilever.
A panel of social entrepreneurs and investors discusses issues unique to social entrepreneurship.
Frugal innovation is the practice used by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who create value with limited resources.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus explains what micro-financing is and the impact it has had.
Sustainability expert Mathis Wackernagel explains the economic and ecological implications of our resource consumption.
A free calculator by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) that allows you to calculate your environmental footprint.
What factors should be considered when assessing the sustainability of new technology?
Learn about sustainability and the challenges to technologists in the domains of climate, pollution and energy.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN aim to tackle poverty and promote sustainable development.
Three experts discuss the issues of social business hybrids, social mission and commercial goals.
A guide to impact investing both for impact investors and social entrepreneurs.
Resources to help your business protect and enforce Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in specific countries.
The 10 characteristics investors look for, plus tips on effective communication and presenting with slides.
Famous investor and startup-guru Guy Kawasaki explains his simple 10/20/30 rule for presentation pitches.
An expert unravels the secrets of great talks and explains how to tell a story that resonates and inspires action.
Body language expert Mark Bowden gives an alternative take on the importance of authenticity when given a talk.
Harvard scientist Amy Cuddy explains how body language can be used to help us change our own emotional state.
Robart Dolan of Harvard Business School talks about the concepts of perceived value and pricing.
Several experts explain the art of pricing in this short clip.