Startups and Small Businesses in Numbers

Some fantastic statistics on the UK’s small business sector has been made available by the Federation of Small Businesses…

Teaching Activity on Startups - Mini Briefs

This teaching resource went down a storm when we introduced it to our colleagues offering AQA BUSS1 and at the Business Booster CPD days this month!  So we thought we’d share it with the wider tutor2u business teacher community…

The Decline of Newspapers Creates a Surge in Local Startups

Here is a great way to allow students to consider two often separate elements of the business curriculum - the product life cycle and business startups…

V-Water - from start up to exit

The market space for enhanced water is getting crowded! Sales of ‘smoothies’ are down by more than fifty per cent this year but the volume of enhanced water bottles being bought is proving more resilient to the recession. And the growing amount of shelf space in the supermarket aisles given over to the likes of Firefly, Vitamin-Water, Just-Juice, Vitsmart and V-Water is testimony to the high margins these products generate. Chris Coleridge, co-Founder of V-Water gave a relaxed, entertaining and thoughtful presentation on the growth of his business to the Eton College Entrepreneurship Society on Thursday night. A large audience - fortified by a generous sample of the six flavoured drinks on offer - grilled Mr Coleridge on his business after he had taken time out to explode five myths about start-ups.

Emma Jones to speak at the Business Teacher National Conference 2010

Great news for colleagues planning to attend the Business Teacher National Conference 2010 on Friday 18 June 2010.  Emma Jones, the inspirational entrepreneur behind Enterprise Nation, has kindly agreed present a session at the conference…

Born in the Storm - 4 Start-ups One Year On

A year ago, BBC Newsnight Scotland profiled four fledgling start-ups where the entrepreneur concerned had decided to launch a business in the eye of the financial storm.  How have they got on?

Memory Challenge - Start-ups

Here is a quick starter activity which gets students into defining some key terms related to start-ups…

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Is a recession the perfect time to launch a technology start-up?

Entrepreneurs love economic downturns.  So now should be a great time to be launching a start-up business, provided that the business model is viable…

Icing on the cake for entrepreneurs

This niche market is growing at 50% per year and is attracting dozens of business start-ups in the UK…

Research Start-Ups! Team Challenge (2)

My first lesson with the AS students next week.  Keen to get them buzzing about business start-ups, what better way than to set them a research task in the form of a team challenge!