MODULE: Managerial Skills and Entrepreneurship Assignment Deadline: 13/06/2015 Assignment Requirement: Topic: In your role a first time entrepreneur, you have to plan a new business start-up in order to secure funding from financial institutions or private investors. You are therefore required to prepare an individual business plan to outline and explain/answer the following: 1. The New Venture Concept, the opportunity gap in the market and why you are confident that this new business is feasible. [ 800 words / 20 marks ] 2. The Requirements for the New Business start-up together with the Management Skills needed to make the business successful. [ 800 words / 20 marks ] 3. Your proposed business model to explain how the new venture will work to achieve positive financial results and by when. [1600 words / 40 marks ] 4. How you propose to manage business risks. [ 400 words / 10 marks ] 5. The conditions which must prevail to avoid failure. [ 400 words / 10 marks ] Guideline • The submission of your work assessment should be organized and clearly structured in a report format. • Maximum word length allowed is 4000 words, excluding words in charts & tables and in the appendixes section of your assignment. • This assignment is worth 100% of the final assessment of the module. • Student is required to submit a type-written document in Microsoft Word format with Times New Roman font type, size 12 and line spacing 1.5. • Indicate the sources of information and literature review by including all the necessary citations and references adopting the Harvard Referencing System. • Students who have been found to have committed acts of Plagiarism are automatically considered to have failed the entire module. If found to have breached the regulation for the second time, you will be asked to leave the course. • Plagiarism involves taking someone else's words, thoughts, ideas or essays from online essay banks and trying to pass them off as your own. It is a form of cheating which is taken very seriously.