Further reading
Double diamond process:
You can take a more detailed look at the UK Design Council’s double diamond process, which you looked at in Section 5.2, here: www.designcouncil.org.uk/ news-opinion/ design-process-what-double-diamond
The ‘d school’ at Stanford is an alternative the UK Design Council’s ‘double diamond’. Find more about the ‘d school’ here: https://dschool.stanford.edu/
Developing ideas:
This article ‘What is ideation – and how to prepare for ideation sessions’ looks at how to get the most from ideation sessions and the design thinking process.
Social enterprise UK:
Social Enterprise UK provides advice and support for not-for-profit enterprises. You can look for the list of the latest winners of the UK Social Enterprise Awards for inspiration.
Accelerators and incubators:
If you want to find out about the accelerators and incubators available in your area, you can go to the NESTA website for further information.
Marketing:
There are many courses and free resources on marketing available on OpenLearn and elsewhere. These range from general courses like Marketing in the 21st Century which provides you with an overview of marketing, brands, and changes in marketing practice, to more specific ones on developing your understanding of customers, clients and consumers as stakeholders in your business in the course Stakeholders in marketing and finance.
Marketing as a form of inbound and outwards communication is covered in the course Marketing communications as a strategic function, as is social marketing in the course Social marketing, which aims to use approaches from marketing to address social problems.
Involving your customers:
Learn more about customer-led innovation at Lego on 100%Open.
Transformations:
Social Bite, as explained in Section 2.2, has a number of different inputs which produce a series of smaller transformations. You can visit their site here.
Attributes of an entrepreneur:
Find out more about what makes a successful entrepreneur stand out from the crowd in this article published on OpenLearn: www.open.edu/ openlearn/ money-management/ management/ business-studies/ the-entrepreneurial-paradox
Human resources:
The free OpenLearn course, Human resources: recruitment and selection, looks at the process of recruiting and the steps involved to ensure you choose the right applicant.
Grants:
If you live in the UK, you can find more information about grants and other funding schemes at Gov.uk. The website also has information about the Graduate Entrepreneur Visa for graduates whose business idea is endorsed by the Department for International Trade (DIT) or a UK higher education institution (HEI).
For those living and working outside of the UK, many other governments also provide funding support for entrepreneurs, such as the EU and Chile.
Crowdfunding:
Find out more about the three crowdfunding platforms discussed in Section 8.3 on the websites for Kickstarter, Seedrs and Crowdcube.
Peer-to-peer lending:
Funding Circle and Thincats are two examples of peer-to-peer lending platforms.
Government schemes for prospective lenders:
Bootstrapping versus venture capital:
The pros and cons of bootstrapping versus accepting venture capital is discussed in various videos, however this one provides thorough coverage of the issues for one high-scale online retailer.