BUSINESS BASICS FOR ENTREPRENEURS (Tutorials)

Business Glossary – It helps to know the lingo and buzzwords!

• Introduction & The Fun of Business
• Own Your Own Business
• The Business Case – Questions to Address
• The Business Plan:
  • The Executive Summary
  • Marketing: The Four P’s
  • Performance vs Health
  • Profit & Loss Statements
  • Sales Forecasts
  • Cashflow
  • Balance Sheets
• The Business Card
• Starting A Company
• Incorporating A Company
• Equity: Dividing the Pie
• Structuring a Startup Company
• The Cap Table
• Sample Term Sheet
• The Shareholders Agreement
• The Board of Directors (and Advisors)
• List of Marketing Journals
• Product Life Cycles and Technology S-Curves
• Time Value of Money (slides)
• Money: From Angels to Devils
• Money Links
• A Financing Example
• IPOs and RTOs
• Stock Compensation
• Stock Options (Market)
• Stock Options (Incentive)
• Stages of Growth: Creating Wealth
• Operations (The Money Machine)
• Personal Finance – RRSPs
• SRED Grants
• Crossing the Chasm
• Risk Factors
• Futures Contracts (for risk hedging)
• Intellectual Property Management
• Agreement Samples: NDA
• The Annual General Meeting
• Giving Entrepreneurs the “EDG”
• TSX-V Capital Pool Companies (CPC)