Starting a Business or Social Enterprise - Free Online Course

Starting a Business or Social Enterprise - The Stone Soup Way

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For a more enjoyable learning experience, we recommend that you study the mobile-friendly republished version of this course.

This free interactive online business course covers entrepreneurship. Taking as its inspiration the book: "Stone Soup - The Secret Recipe for Making Something from Nothing", this course takes you through the 26 ingredients needed. This course not only brings you a flavour of the book, it also provides a profile of the successful entrepreneur/venture founder.
This course will encourage and motivate you to set up your own business. You will learn effective team-building techniques and you will have a good knowledge of the characteristics of some of the most successful entrepreneurs. This course will help you deal with times of crisis or change within a business. You will understand the most important personal qualities of a successful entrepreneur.
All Alison courses are free to study. To successfully complete a course you must score 80% or higher in each course assessments. Upon successful completion of a course, you can choose to make your achievement formal by purchasing an official Alison Diploma, Certificate or PDF.

Having an official Alison document is a great way to celebrate and share your success. It is:
- Ideal to include with CVs, job applications and portfolios
- A way to show your ability to learn and achieve high results

Starting a Business or Social Enterprise - The Stone Soup Way