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Bootstrapping a Profitable Small Business
Start and grow a profitable small business on your own money by pricing for profit, running lean operations, controlling cash flow and reinvesting wisely.
About this course
Grow without outside funding. Learn frugal operations, pricing for profit, and reinvestment strategies to build a sustainable, self-funded company.
What you will learn
- Set up a profit-first money system with separate accounts and fixed allocation percentages
- Calculate your personal runway and set milestones and decision rules for leaving other income
- Choose and test a bootstrap-friendly business model using pre-sales and deposits
- Price products and services using unit costs, gross margin, break-even volume and customer value
- Build and maintain a 13-week cash flow forecast and habits that keep cash healthy
- Rank reinvestment options by payback and risk and avoid the common traps of self-funded growth
Curriculum
Module 1Bootstrap Thinking4 lessons
- 1Profit First from Day One Free preview
- 2Constraints as Advantages
- 3Choosing Bootstrap-Friendly Businesses
- 4Your Personal Runway
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 2Lean Operations4 lessons
- 5Starting with Almost No Money
- 6Free and Cheap Tools Stack
- 7Doing More Without Hiring
- 8When and How to Outsource
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 3Revenue First4 lessons
- 9Selling Before Building
- 10Pricing for Profit
- 11Cash Flow Discipline
- 12Repeat Business and Referrals
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
Module 4Growing Steadily3 lessons
- 13Reinvesting Profits Wisely
- 14Avoiding Bootstrap Traps
- 15Course Project: Bootstrap Business Blueprint
- QModule quiz (4 questions)
PFinal project: Bootstrap Business Blueprint
Who this course is for
- Aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business without loans or investors
- Owners of small businesses that are busy but not as profitable as they should be
- Employees planning to turn a side business into their main income
Requirements
- No prior business training needed; basic arithmetic is enough
- A phone or computer with a spreadsheet app for the budgeting and forecasting exercises
- A business you run or an idea you want to start, to use throughout the exercises
What is included
Written lessons
15 lessons, each with a practical exercise and key points to remember.
Module quizzes
A short quiz at the end of each module. Pass mark 70%, and you can retake it.
Final project
Bootstrap Business Blueprint. A practical brief with steps and a way to check your own work.
Certificate
A certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses with a unique code anyone can verify.
How the certificate works
Complete every lesson and pass every module quiz with 70% or more. Your certificate then appears in your learner area, ready to print or save as PDF. It shows your name, the course title, the completion date and a unique code. It is a certificate of completion from EMFAD Courses, not an accredited qualification.
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