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To Build Your
Amazing Business?

Promoting Economic Empowerment To Inspire A New Generation Of Entrepreneurs…

Your Journey to creating a successful business starts here ..!

The key objective of InBiz1000™ is to address the unequal balance in business enterprising created by inequalities in the entrepreneurial ecosystems that places barriers to entry which disempowers people from Black communities to capitalise on entrepreneurship as a vehicle for economic independence.

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To get started with building your business,we encourage you to watch the brief video below. It provides insights into the programme and answers many of the questions you may have about starting out in business or growing a business.

To get started with building your business, register your interest by completing the form below. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

A Suffolk Black Community Forum Initiative in partnership with TheBiznesLab™ Ventures .

Getting started with building a sustainable business today.

Have you ever had an idea for a business or always dreamt of owning your own business?

Did you give up before you even got started or simply didn’t know where to start?

Well, if you still have the passion and the desire and would like to be inspired to transform your passion, dream or idea into reality, then InBiz1000 supported by the Suffolk Black Community Forum and TheBiznesLab Ventures can provide the necessary tools, encouragement, motivation, coaching and expertise to help you get started – walking you through the entire process from Ideas development through to launching your business and getting your first customer.

Join us on this exciting journey – where you will work through a proven process supported by a platform that will help you convert your idea into a viable business.

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Online Tools and Resources to help you on your way.

Creating any new business is challenging. Starting out without any prior knowledge or an understanding of the business and economic landscape can be daunting. This we believe may be a big reason why many give up on their dreams and ideas

Through a combination of online course work, virtual workshops, 1:1 coaching and engagement with a professional team of mentors and subject matter experts, InBiz1000 can help you develop all of the elements to create a business – giving you the best shot at making it a success. Let’s get started..!

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Benefits of joining InBiz1000™

Starting A Business

Business Planning

If you are a first time entrepreneur or dreaming of starting your own business, We can help by providing the right tools, knowledge, guidance and resources to help you make it a reality.

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Reboot Your Business

Entrepreneurial Training

Our Entrepreneurial Training Programme is designed to equip participants with the necessary skills, a deeper understanding of business stages and cycles as well as developing the mindset to launch and operate successful business ventures.

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Vounteering

1:1 Venture Coaching

1:1 Venture Coaching sessions provides opportunities for developing actionable strategies and to help existing business owners reboot and revatilise their operations in order to build resilience and sustainability models.

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A Suffolk Black Community Forum Initiative in partnership with TheBiznesLab™ Ventures .

Frequently Asked Questions Who can get involved?How long does it take?How do I get started?What experience do I need?

The program is open to any Black person who has a dream of starting a business or taking their existing business to the next level of success.  It’s easy to get on board – starting with a simple application form.

None.  All you need is an idea for a product or service and a genuine desire to start your own business.  It helps to have clarity around a few initial concepts like the who, what and how. Meaning, who do you think will be your customers?  What product or service will you be providing to them? How are you going to do that? (In person, from a shop, office, or online, or through multiple channels?

Enrolling in the iNBiz1000 program will provide you with the tools and training that will help you improve your chances for business success. It will also empower you to think differently about your options to gaining financial independence and making a difference in your community.

Just as there is not one set path to business success, there is not a set path that works for every new or small business owner. Your unique path will depend on the work you have done to-date and your specific area(s) of need.

If you are just starting out and don’t yet have a business plan, we recommend starting with the iNBiz1000 online Business Plan Builder Program. This program consists of a variety of self -paced learning modules and, depending on your availability and commitment, can be completed within 12 weeks.

INBiz1000™ provides a wide range of services for entrepreneurs and small business venturers including: personal 1-2-1 coaching to help you think differently about how business solves problems, explore your business idea(s) to determine what works and what doesn’t; creating a business plan and summary; providing 1:1 small business coaching; connecting you with technical experts in a variety of areas; helping you with product and services design, business processes and operation development; explore new business potential within your business; avoid costly mistakes and mis-steps early on in your business; developing a growth mindset; launch your business, either in a physical location and/or online (may be through an e-commerce platform); and providing guidance on ways to build business models that can attract funding.

Getting started in 1TBB™ is easy. Simply Click here and complete a simple application form.  You’ll be moving towards launching your business in no time.

INBiz1000™ initiative was conceived by the Business, Employment and Economic Activity Focus Group from the Suffolk Black Community Forum, led by Roland Gilbertson.

The group share a vision to create more opportunities for aspiring black & brown entrepreneurs and inspire existing business owners to innovate and grow. This newly created platform will provide a variety of support services and tools to enable this vision to materialise.

INBiz1000™ hopes to join forces with a number of key stakeholders from leading and forward thinking companies, organisations and public sector entities who are all committed to working together to create an equitable community where people from Black & Brown communities are empowered, supported with the best tools and resources to build ventures that can make a difference and contribute toward the economic wealth of the region.

There are a variety of ways that YOU can be part of the INBiz1000™ initiative.

Whether you are a company that is looking to strengthen your commitment to the Black business community; a government entity looking to expand business service offerings to local Black small businesses and/or entrepreneurs; a non-profit with a commitment to supporting under-served communities or generating new economic opportunities; a volunteer with specialised skills; or simply an individual, foundation, or corporation who recognises that building Black businesses is essential for the long term economic, social health and prosperity of our region and country, you can help make the 1TBB vision a reality. You can become a Sponsor, Partner, Volunteer or simply a supporter by making a donation.

To get involved with the INBiz1000™ initiative as a Sponsor, Partner, Volunteer or a Supporter or a participant, visit the relevant sections of our website to register your interest by completing a simple one page digital application.

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We look forward to welcoming you on board…!

Not sure where or how to start your Dream Business

InBiz1000™ will equip you with the right knowledge, training and coaching you need and access to new business support, including experts who can help you develop your business and take it to the next level.

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How It Works

The InBiz1000 Business Development Programme has been developed as a Business Accelerator offering a mix of coaching, mentoring and masterclass sessions designed to provide a pathway and guide participants to take their ideas from concept to market in 100-200 days.

It is designed to provide training that bridges the knowledge gap and offer much needed guidance to enable participants develop sustainable business models that can continue to offer value in the ever changing business landscapes. The programme will walk participants through the entire business development cycles and the curriculum is designed to include the five main core principles of business concepts in a linear format – simplifying all the modules in a way that connects it’s practical functions and implementation to the theory of business (jargon) concepts.

The Curriculum is grouped into Eight Modules, with each module having a set of Topics that will be covered to provide a solid understanding of the module and it’s importance in the business development process.

The Eight main Modules we will be covering are;

1. Introduction to Business
2. Value Creation
3. Branding & Marketing
4. Sales & Pricing
5. Value Delivery
6. Finance & Accounting
7. Launching Your Business
8. Company Structures

In addition to preparing participants to build their dream business, it will also provided business leadership coaching sessions to help participants become competent in running and managing their businesses with guided support in business management, hiring, staffing, building business and supply chain relationships as well as networking.

At InBiz1000™, our unique value proposition and best practices that we aspire to, is the provision of business support services in legal advice, investment opportunities, go-to market strategies and administrative support directly within the programme or through approved affiliated 3rd party partners.

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Complete the simple and easy form below to register your interest. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

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Explore The Online Tools and Resources

The InBiz1000 Business Plan Builder is an online, self-paced 7 module program that will explore topics like: Passion, Purpose, Profit and Marketing.

You will benefit from example business plans and an extensive glossary to help you complete and refine your business plan. This process will empower you and reward you with a sense of accomplishment, but, more importantly, an actual business plan that you can continue to expand and refine until you are ready to present it for further support or to potential investors.

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Complete the simple and easy form below to register your interest. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

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1:1 Venture Coaching

Whether you’re starting out or growing a business, Venture Coaching can help you avoid wasting time and money on building stuff nobody wants, but rather, challenge you to focus on innovating your business to build products or services that will have traction, get you in front of your customers and potential investors in rapid time.

More and more VC’s and investors are recommending coaches to startup founders and they are far more likely to invest in founders who have had the often invaluable support and developed the mindset (through coaching) to deal with the challenges that come with building a venture.

Unlike corporate environments where you’re working through a process with sometimes, clear objectives, starting a business can be challenging and in many cases, there’s a lot of this can create a lot of anxiety and stress for entrepreneurs or business founders.

Contending with the complexities of market ready product development is challenging enough, and, on top of that, business founders are often wearing many hats and roles – many of which they may be unfamiliar with.

Put in that situation, there is the constant pressures of deadlines, benchmarks and objectives for them to maintain momentum and operate at peak performance. This is when and why a venture coach can be most useful and critical in your journey.

How to get Started

Complete the simple and easy form below to register your interest. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

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Entrepreneurial Training

The InBiz1000 Entrepreneurial Programme & (Skills) Training provides the foundations and mindset for identifying opportunities from which one can build on to develop scalable solutions that solve problems at scale. It also guides participants from Ideas development through to launch and into a realisable business opportunity.

It offers a structured curriculum that aims to equip participants with the necessary skillset(s) for identifying and launching a business, covering every aspect of innovation in business development including; planning, process development as well as simulations of a business start-up and it’s operation.

The InBiz1000 Entrepreneurial Programme is a refined and well constructed programme that has enabled many previous participants from around the world to launch successful new and innovation-driven ventures.

Our Training Programme uses a variety of methods in disseminate practical and actionable tasks as well as information to the participants. The processes may include a combination of the following :

A. Lectures – Masterclasses
B. Written Instructional Exercises
C. 1:1 Coaching & Reviews
D. Group (Team-Building) Workshops
E. Business Simulation Activities
F. Meetings & Conferences

During the course of the programme, participants will follow a disciplined methodology where you’ll learn every step of the venture creation process and how to apply these lessons in a simulated business project. So, whether you’re curious about entrepreneurship or the venture creation process, InBiz1000 will provide you with the necessary skills, resource frameworks, support and hands-on experience you need to realise your ambitions.

How to get Started

As a participant in this unique program, you will learn how to:

1. Create, identify, and evaluate new venture opportunities
2. Interpret customer needs and quantify the value proposition
3. Leverage innovation ecosystems
4. Develop a winning business plan.
5. Scale your business (Globally)
6. Navigate the investment process
7. Start and build a successful innovation-driven company

You’ll also receive constructive feedback from entrepreneurs, mentors, business experts and from our investor network and entrepreneurial community.

Complete the simple and easy form below to register your interest. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

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Business Planning

In order to realise anything you imagine, you need to map it out in a plan. Business is no different. Whilst you may have all your ideas and processes in your head, it is often very difficult to relay that back in it’s entirety, within context and in a format that shows exactly what the business is, why it exists, how it solves problems for it’s customers and more importantly, how it will make money to be sustainable and profitable.

The InBiz1000 Business Planning Sessions are designed to help you complete your business plan through a series of tutorials and masterclasses – covering everything you need to know and have in your business plan.

You will have the option to complete this online or download our business plan template to complete and submit as part of your assessment.

You will also benefit from reviewing case study examples with instructional videos giving an overview of sections of the business plan to help and guide you along the way.

How to get Started

Complete the simple and easy form below to apply for and reserve a space on the programme. For a distraction free application form, Click here.

All applications will be reviewed by a panel and you will be contacted within 7 working days irrespective of whether you have been approved or not.

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