Alumnae events online

We’re taking some of our events online, and will be building up our online offer over the coming months. Scroll down to see what’s coming up.

How do I know if my business idea will work?

This course has been developed for the GDST by Fleur Emery, start-up expert, lecturer and columnist.

  • Do you dream about going it alone or turning your hobby into a business but just don’t know if it’s realistic?
  • Have you started selling something but don’t know how to work out who your customers are, or how much the business can make?

Join this dynamic online course and leave with the tools to work through a process to work out the viability of any business.

This course is now live.

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First steps to starting a business

This course has been developed for the GDST by Fleur Emery, start-up expert, lecturer and columnist.

You have an idea, and are determined to give it a go, but have no idea where to start. Does this sound like you?

This course will tell you everything you need to know about setting up and planning a business from reporting to HMRC and registering with Companies House, to planning a cash flow.

This course is live from 12th May.

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How to raise your professional profile

This course has been developed for the GDST by Fleur Emery, start-up expert, lecturer and columnist.

You’ve had an idea and started up but the world doesn’t know that your business exists and you want to raise its profile.

This session will teach you the basics of understanding what your business has to say and how to say it. You will leave with business goals, communication goals and the beginnings of an online strategy that you can execute yourself.

This course is live from 27th May.

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