Startup Business School
The founder of Startup Business School, Richard Banfield, recently reached out to me and informed me of what he was doing – how his site is helping entrepreneurs.
Startup Business School is a great site filled with plenty of resources that can help all sorts of entrepreneurs, especially us young guys. They are currently offering a free guide called “The 101 Essential Startup Tips.” It looks like a pretty useful guide and it’s free so you don’t have much to lose, right.
The meat of the site is their Lessons pages which consists of an excellent library of articles. Topics such as building a team, getting funding, management, leadership, and other subjects are covered.
SUBS also offers a service that appears to be focused on young entrepreneurs. Though not immediately clear, the service seems to be a package of tools that helps you organize your business by proving you online lessons, a platform to build a business plan, network with other members of the service, and to communicate on their blog. They offer a free and premium package.
Personally, I think a service such as this one is going to be a hard sell for young entrepreneurs. When it comes to actually paying for help to start a business via lessons, many will turn in the other direction and seek help from their current network of peers and entrepreneurial friends.
The internet has become the largest playground – ever – for us young entrepreneurs and our support system that enables us to reach out to one another and help each other is growing by the day. Through forums, blogs, communities, etc… we are uniting and forming structures that allow us to gain/share the information we need without having to pony up cash.
SUBS, overall, seems like a pretty cool place for entrepreneurs to jump into some quality articles and network with some like-minded people. But nothing will ever replace the real-time experiences of starting your own company – something no amount of online lessons can ever replace. The real school of entrepreneurship is, guess what, just doing it!
4 Comments
Jenia
January 30th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Here is a good post with the 10 most important ingredients of a successful Start-Up.
nate
February 1st, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Thanks for showing off this link. I’m always interested in a more professional and systematic take on starting a business.
I’m going to give it a spin (already signed up for the free account) and I’ll document my experience with the service on my blog if you’re interested in following it.
Thanks for the resource guys!
David Askaripour
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Jenia, thanks for sharing that link.
Nate, no problem. I look forward to hearing what comes out of your experience with them. Keep us posted!
Nick
March 1st, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I was looking at start up business school, and it looks like theres some pretty good information on there. I would have to agree that the inernet is always a great source for information on entrepreneurship.
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