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A tonic for new BUSS1 students

Ian Pryer

3rd October 2014

Here is a fantastic article from the BBC website for new AQA Business students and other students following courses that currently look at entrepreneurship and business start-ups.

There are loads of concepts brought up here including idea generation, marketing, sources of finance, enterprise skills, ownership status and working with partners or other directors in a business. Some possible activities include:

* Consider your own idea for a new business and research/identify an 'industry veteran' you'd ask for a meeting with. Prepare 5 questions you'd want to ask them

* Create your own 'person specification' for your ideal business partner for your business idea

* Identify 5 enterprise skills displayed by Tim and Charles with examples from the article of how these have been evident

Ian Pryer

Head of Economics and Business, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge since September 2014. Previously at Freman College, Buntingford for four years firstly as an NQT/class teacher and then has Head of Department. Formerly worked in retail financial services for nearly a decade. Husband, father and lover of Watford FC, darts and cooking.

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