Curriculum Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Entrepreneurship & Small Business
What it actually takes to start and run a small business, from the first idea to the first hire.
- What Is Entrepreneurship, Really The actual economic role entrepreneurs play, and the risk-reward tradeoff at the center of starting a business. 📄 Read-aloud
- Business Plans 101 What a business plan actually needs to answer, and why the exercise matters even for a very small business. 📄 Read-aloud
- Funding a Small Business The main ways small businesses actually get funded, and the real tradeoff each option carries. 📄 Read-aloud
- Choosing a Business Structure The main legal structures a small business can take, and what actually changes between them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business: Checkpoint 1 Covers what entrepreneurship is, business plans, funding options, and business structures. 5 questions
- Pricing and Margins How to actually set a price, and the margin math that determines whether a business can survive on it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Cash Flow for Small Business Why a profitable business can still run out of money, and how to manage the timing gap that causes it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Marketing on a Budget How small businesses reach customers without a large budget, and how to tell if the spending is actually working. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Small Businesses Fail - and How to Adapt The most common, well-documented reasons small businesses fail, and how resilient founders respond to them. 📄 Read-aloud
- Entrepreneurship & Small Business: Checkpoint 2 Covers pricing and margins, cash flow, marketing on a budget, and why small businesses fail. 5 questions
- Bootstrapping vs. Raising Capital Two very different ways to fund a new business - growing slowly on your own money, or growing fast on someone else's - and what each one costs you. 📄 Read-aloud
- Building a Minimum Viable Product Why the smartest way to start a business is often the smallest possible version of it - and how that reduces financial risk. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Franchising How franchising splits the risk and reward of a business between the brand owner and the local operator. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Side Hustles Why so many people run a small business alongside a regular job, and how the economics of that differ. 📄 Read-aloud
- Splitting Equity Between Co-Founders Why dividing ownership fairly among co-founders is genuinely difficult, and what founders get wrong about it. 📄 Read-aloud
- Hiring Your First Employee Why bringing on a first employee is one of the biggest financial and operational leaps a small business makes. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Business Exits: Selling or Closing How business owners decide whether to sell, wind down, or hand off a business, and how a sale is actually valued. 📄 Read-aloud
- Intellectual Property for Small Businesses What trademarks, copyrights, and patents actually protect, and which ones matter most for a typical small business. 📄 Read-aloud
- Seasonal Businesses and Cash Flow Planning How businesses that earn most of their revenue in a short window manage to survive the rest of the year. 📄 Read-aloud
- Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value Two numbers that help businesses decide how much to spend on winning customers, and why many start-ups have struggled when they got them wrong. 📄 Read-aloud
- Selling Online as a Small Business The options for small businesses to sell online, from marketplaces to their own websites and social media, and the costs of each. 📄 Read-aloud
- Government Support for Small Businesses in India How India defines micro, small and medium enterprises and the main schemes that help them get credit, register and grow. 📄 Read-aloud
- Registering a Small Business in India: Udyam and GST What registrations a new small business in India typically needs, what Udyam registration offers, and when GST registration becomes mandatory. 📄 Read-aloud