For new entrepreneurs and those in the early stages of building their business.
For businesses looking to expand and raise investment and expand. This box also contains everything in The Launch Box.
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UK-based templates and guidance that give you the overview and the detail to get going and get growing.
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Ever get that feeling when searching for business information that nothing truly fits? How many blogs and articles have you read, only to find out they don’t suit UK business owners or your type of business?
You can rapidly get lost in a fog of information that seems ‘sort of relevant.’
With The Business Box, you no longer have to struggle with business templates designed for a different markets with different practices, regulations, or, worse, ‘advice’ that only covers half of what you need to know.
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| Stage | Document | The Launch Box | The Growth Box | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set Up | 50 Point Checklist |  | | The top 50 things that you need to do to set up a business and where to go to get the resources/information you need. |
| Set Up | 80 tips entrepreneurial tips & hints | | | What I have personally learned in 30 years of being an entrepreneur, distilled into my top 80 tips. |
| Set Up | Your Business Intention | | | How to write statements that guide and focus attention to create your purpose, vision, mission and values |
| Business Planning | Example Visions & Missions | | | 25 well-known brands and their vision and mission statements for inspiration |
| Business Planning | Business Plan Structure | | | A step-by-step guide to setting out your business plan and executing your business |
| Business Planning | Your Business Canvas | | | Your pitch on a page is a summary of your whole business – a great tool to help you focus and highlight the most important bits! |
| Business Planning | Your Business Plan | | | A comprehensive breakdown of your whole business and my step-by-step guide to how to set out the business plan and execute your business |
| Business Planning | Budget Templates | | | A choice of budget templates, from simple to complex to set out the income and costs for your business (your profit and loss), together with your balance sheet and cashflow projections |
| Business Planning | Your Cashflow | | | The heart of the business is this model that will show your daily cash in and out over a rolling 13-week period. You should always be able to see your cashflow 3 months ahead with a fair degree of accuracy. |
| Business Planning | Your Pitch Deck | | | The summary presentation and quick-fire investment/sales pitch that presents your business/idea to a group of stakeholders (normally investors) in a series of high-impact slides. |
| Investors | 50 Investment Tips |  | | Real world and experienced-based tips and advice to consider, if and when, you pitch for investment. |
| Investors | 100 Investor Questions | | | Curated from the last 15 years of investor due diligence, these are the 100 most-asked questions by investors when considering investing in early stage and start-up companies |
| Investors | Confidentiality Agreements | | | For use when you want to share sensitive information with a 3rd party or are in a discussion with a 3rd party and you will be sharing confidential information with each other |
| Investors | Due Diligence | | | A detailed and comprehensive list of the information that an investor may want to see and review prior to investing in your company in 2 different formats – basic and comprehensive |
| Investors | IP Assignment | | | Confirmation that if you hold any intellectual property (i.e., patents, trademarks, etc), that the ownership of this will be transferred to the company before any outside investment is completed |
| Investors | Directors Undertaking | | | Confirmation that upon receiving investment each director will abide by the shareholder agreement and a personal executive service agreement |
| Investors | Disclosure Letter | | | Anything you might want to tell an investor that could be material to their decision-making about investing in your business |
| Investors | Shareholder Agreement | | | The main shareholder agreement, setting out the terms of the investment and your company rules for operating |
| Investors | Board Minutes | | | Confirmation that the current board of directors has agreed to an investment |
| Investors | Board Resolutions | | | Agreement that the directors will allot new shares to an investor and that those shares are free of any pre-emption rights with existing shareholders |
| Investors | Investor Subscription | | | The investors agreement to buy shares in your company |
| Investors | Deed of Adherence | | | Confirmation that all of the parties agree to the shareholder agreement and resolutions |
| Investors | Cap Tables | | | Different versions (simple to complex) of your shareholder details and market capitalisation. |
Everything a start-up needs in one place
Find out for yourself just how much information and advice you will get, all focused on UK businesses and tested in the real world.