Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Social business in Europe: incorporation choices, finance, networks and local development
Thursday, 10 March 2011
Business planning for social entrepreneurs: the prequel
Yesterday's session brought about a surprise: students have proposed to participate in several competition for new social startups across the globe, as a way of exercise. Excellent: this is going to be a great exercise, and probably a lot of fun. It does, however, mean that we are going to move to next week one of the final lectures, the one about business planning (submissions in these competitions are business plans, what else could they be?), that was originally scheduled for much later. And that means I have to scramble to prepare the lecture.
I'll do my best, though my schedule is very full. I know the topic reasonably well, so the main problem will be preparing a batch of my famously sleek slides :-). To do a better job of it, there is something I need to know from each of you. Do you know what the following expressions mean:
- fixed costs vs. variable costs
- investments and depreciation of investments
- costs/revenues vs. liabilities/assets
Please each of you answer by commenting this post. Thanks!