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A tonic for new BUSS1 students

Ian Pryer

3rd October 2014

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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

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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.