Templates & Definitions

We’ve put together some helpful templates and definitions for you to explore.

  • Theory of Change

    Impact

  • Pitch deck

    Business

  • Stakeholder Mapping

    Business

  • Value Proposition Canvas

    Strategy

  • Market Sizing

    Strategy

  • Competitor Analysis

    Strategy

  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Targets

    Talent

  • JD: Chief Operations Officer

    Talent

  • JD: Human Resources Manager

    Talent

  • JD: Chief Executive Officer

    Talent

  • A timed programme to build startups

  • Series A funds secured

    Close to break even or already profitable

    Thinking about scaling

  • Early stage investors

  • Ideation stage

  • Business to business transaction

  • Products or services from a business directly to a customer as the end user

  • Reaching financial sustainability whilst achieving positive impact can be challenging. Managing various performance indicators and ensuring they are heading in the right direction is critical to profitability and impact

  • Raising small amounts of funding from large groups

  • Guidelines defining how to manage a company's information (e.g. data collection, storage, governance etc)

  • Seed funds secured

    Concept validated with Clients

  • Stakeholder ownership within a business

  • “Allocating the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome”

  • Environment, Social and Corporate Governance

  • Fair and equitable access to financial services

  • You have a developed and tested MVP, pre-seed funding and above

  • A pricing strategy where the product or service is free

  • Corporate Governance is a system through which a company is managed and controlled. Early-stage companies should think about the role of their different stakeholders and how each of these groups might best support the business's social mission

  • Pre-series A funding

    Revenue generating

    Significant traction with product/service

  • With a purpose-driven mission, creating positive impact is at the heart of what you do. It’s key to identify, understand and capture the impact value of your activities. This process is central to your strategy and may help you secure funding and customers

  • Business solutions to the world's social and environmental challenges

  • Tracking and reporting the impact value of your business.

  • Quantifiable performance measures

  • Beginner in the impact entrepreneurship space

  • Minimum viable product - the product or service with main features functioning

  • Investment secured before product or service is ready for market

  • Rate of return on an investment

  • Growth with a repeat model

  • First investment round when product or service is ready for market

  • Second investment round when startup has plan for long term profitability

  • Growth and scalability phase

  • A contract that regulates the relationship between the shareholders and the company

  • Individuals or groups who have a vested interested in a business.

  • Strategy is what drives decisions in any business. If done effectively, it can help organisations identify their strengths and weaknesses, and decide where your efforts and resources are best spent, which is crucial in ensuring your business has a profitable and sustainable future

  • Equity in exchange for efforts

  • Building and maintaining a mission-aligned and inclusive company culture, where turnover will be low and people will be happy to work hard will be essential to add value to your company

  • Document stating the terms of an investment

  • A comprehensive framework and description of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context.

  • Evidence that your startup has gained momentum.

    e.g. revenue, number of customers, user engagement

  • Proving market need

  • The quantitative process of determining the worth of an asset or company

  • Investment funds for growth startups.

  • Pre-Seed Funding

    Prototype / MVP level

    Concept testing