Gear Up

<b>Transform your business idea into a high potential venture</b> <p>Big, bright and brilliant, <i>Gear Up</i> is an engaging and practical workbook for anyone looking to pursue a fresh business opportunity or grow an existing one. Developed at Harvard Business School and Stanford University, it's a bootcamp with clear, easy-to-follow steps to test your business idea, assess its potential and make it work! Based on a revolutionary 9-component framework, <i>Gear Up</i> offers entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, innovative executives and business students a toolkit to bring their ideas to life and transform them into high potential ventures.</p> <p><i>Gear Up</i> offers a useable business tool for assessing the needs of a business idea and helps you create a plan of action to promote business success. By working through the chapters of the book, you get to create a winning strategy based on recommendations tried and tested by executives around the world.</p> <p><i>Gear Up</i> offers:</p> <p>- A step by step guide to help you build a foundation for your business opportunity</p> <p>- Solid business framework formulated from entrepreneurs, academics and real life experience</p> <p>- A highly practical workbook with visual, full-colour design and compelling layout</p> <p><b><i>Gear Up</i> also comes with educators' support materials available at gearupventures.com</b></p> <ul> <li>PowerPoint presentations with teaching notes</li> <li>Online course materials</li> <li>Course Schedule</li> <li>Evaluation Forms</li> <li>Certificate for students who complete the course</li> </ul> <p><b>Coming soon! - An innovative, interactive digital toolkit</b></p> <p><b>Gear Up Virtual Toolkit</b> (powered by You Noodle): A digital platform where participants can present their enterprise idea, work through the framework, answering questions and get real-time feedback from their facilitator/educator. The tool will even generate a ready-made PowerPoint presentation at the end of the process!</p> <p><b>Gear Up Mobile App</b> (powered by We Chat): This app allows students to answer questions from their lecturers or vote in real-time from their phones within the classroom. The app promotes student engagement and class participation.</p>