Helping UK small business leverage the web
The
brief
The UK government’s Department of Business Innovation and Skills tasked S4S with teaching small firms how to use the web to grow their businesses.
Thee focus was on leveraging the web to reach new customers, sell globally, reduce costs, increase productivity, and leverage the web to scale.
the
solution
WEB FUELLED BUSINESS: School for Startups developed and delivered a nationwide program of intensive one day boot camps across 30 Cities.
HOW TO BUILD A 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS: S4S
developed a full set of self-paced online courses comprising over 22 episodes and dozens of how to videos
the
result
Over 4,600 small firms attended the boot camps.
Over 2,000 small firms took the online course
"As a direct result of Web Fuelled Business, We were able to attract equity investment in our business. So essentially, by attending we secured our first stage seed investment.
Maria Hayden, Bandwagon