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Fundamentals of Business

Cost
₱30,000 PHP₱25,000 PHP
Course Dates
Open now, starts January 11, 2025
Schedule
4 sessions, every Sat
Location
BGC

Take your career or business to the next level.

Learn business fundamentals from instructors with training from world-class institutions, and experience from hard-nosed entrepreneurship.

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What you'll learn

The foundation of business is the creation of value. This session will provide you with practical knowledge on how to create, deliver, and capture value. In other words - how to build & sustain a business that delivers value to your customers, and to yourself as the proprietor/entrepreneur.
By the end of the session, you will know how to:
  • Create value - different sources, approaches and strategies
  • Generate & execute ideas, including assessing market potential, and testing ideas at low cost
  • Capture value - understanding revenue & cost drivers, and different types of business & pricing models
  • Formulate & execute a GTM (Go-to-Market) plan - simply, how to sell your product or service!
It’s time to sell! But how? In this session, you’ll learn how to answer the key questions when taking your product or service to the market: What kind of customers are out there? Which customers do I want? What am I promising/offering them? You’ll also learn how to execute digital marketing strategies - because in this day & age, they can be really efficient!
By the end of the session, you will know how to:
  • Segment your market, target the segment best for you, and position yourself so that customers buy your product
  • Identify the factors your customers care about, and how to communicate with them
  • Find, and go after, your customers in the digital spaces they spend time in
  • Understand SEO, SEM, social media marketing, performance marketing, and other useful digital tools & strategies
This isn’t your (grand)parents’ accounting class. Yes, accounting is a must in any course in business fundamentals since it’s the language of business, but it doesn’t have to be too boring & theoretical. In this session, we’ll focus on how to read financial statements, so that you know what’s going on in your business by the numbers.
By the end of the session, you will know how to:
  • Read, analyze and understand the main financial statements used in every business
  • Understand basic accounting principles, but more importantly how they affect how you (should) run your business
  • Get actionable insights from financial statements - including growing revenues, increasing profitability, managing risks and costs - and how to avoid going bankrupt!
After you’ve learned the basics of the language of business, it’s time to manage your project’s or company’s finances like a CFO would. This session will help you take care of the financial health of your company, use numbers to make good strategic & operational decisions, and ensure you always have enough cash to keep going.
By the end of the session, you will know how to:
  • Make basic financial projections - revenues, costs, cash flows, ratios
  • Apply basic financial concepts - time value of money, discounting & present value, compounding & future value, relationship between risk & return, cost of capital
  • Fund your company - whether borrowing money (debt) or getting investors (equity), and the pros & cons of each
  • Value your company - so that you know how potential investors think, what they look for, and how to negotiate the best deal for your company by speaking their language
  • Generate new ideas or refine your existing idea
  • Learn how to test your idea at low cost
  • Know how & where to sell your product or service
  • Make sense of, and use, financial statements to power your decisions
  • Make basic financial projections and secure the financial health of your business

If you have skills in any non-business field (creative, medical, culinary, wellness, IT, others), combining them with even basic business & entrepreneurial know-how could be game-changing for your career.

Old barriers have fallen away. With today’s platforms, and equipped with the right skills, YOU have the power to go directly to your customers.

This course is for you if…

1

You’re working full-time and don’t want to spend time & money on long & expensive full-time business programs, but still want to acquire fundamental business & entrepreneurial skills from amazing teachers.

2

You want expert teachers who are entrepreneurial, dynamic, and active builders, but explain concepts really well so you can apply them tomorrow in the real world in your career or business.

3

You learn things better in person, with high-quality interaction with your teacher & classmates, instead of online.

4

You value the network & connections you make after the class or course is over, in addition to what you learn in the classroom.

5

You enjoy learning in a lively & comfortable space, with free-flowing coffee/tea, conducive to creative conversations instead of a typical lecture hall in a traditional school.

We want our students to feel empowered to:

Start a new business

Build a new network

Build & monetize their audience / brand

Manage people & teams better

Accelerate their existing business

Find advisors, mentors, or partners

Find potential investors

Understand their biases & make better decisions

Make sense of and use numbers & data to their advantage

Share their knowledge with others

Invest their personal or business capital effectively

Communicate & present more effectively

Interested in taking your career or business to the next level? Join our community!