How to start your own business in BC: Explain your business idea

When explaining your business idea, you must make sure that you can do the following.

a Clearly describe what your business is going to be.
b Explain why you think your business is going to be successful.
c Show what skills you need to run your business successfully.
d Find out how much it is likely to cost you to set up your business, how you will pay for it and how you will pay your early running costs.
e Work out how much money you need to make from your business and whether your business can make enough money.
f Work out how much you can charge your customers to cover your costs and meet your profit targets.
g Look at how anything beyond your control might affect your proposed business.

What you need to know and understand

You need to know and understand the following.

Business attractiveness

  • Your business’s unique selling point and why it is competitive.
  • How you can balance your own needs with your business needs.
  • How you check your business’s profitability.

Financial aspects

  • How important it is for you to have a personal survival budget and how you can work it out.
  • Your planned profits, and how you can work them out.
  • How you understand and use cash-flow forecasts, and what information you would need to produce them.
  • How you understand and use profit and loss accounts, and what information you would need to produce them.
  • How you understand and use marketing and sales forecasts.
  • What laws will affect your business and how.

Skills and abilities you will need

  • How you can judge your own skills and abilities.
  • How you decide what skills and abilities your business needs.

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