Business Canvas Project

Your Business
Canvas Project.
One task at a time.

A clear path from your first idea to your final canvas. Follow the tasks, use real evidence, and build a project you can explain.

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25 tasks ยท 4 units

All 25 tasks include a web guide, a practice activity, a Ready Pouch example, and a PDF guide.

Ready Pouch is our fictional example business. Its proposed product is a small pencil pouch for students. Meet Ready Pouch

Unit 1

Businesses, competition, and new ideas

Find a customer problem, test a solution, and plan how it could work.

  1. 1Find a customer problem, need, or wantRead guide
  2. 2Understand the marketRead guide
  3. 3Test the customer problemRead guide
  4. 4Develop a solutionRead guide
  5. 5Test your solutionRead guide
  6. 6Write your vision and missionRead guide
  7. 7Plan how to make and deliver your productRead guide
  8. 8Choose your idea and update the market analysisRead guide
Unit 2

Marketing

Understand your customers. Develop your product, price, and campaign.

  1. 1Identify your target customerRead guide
  2. 2Build customer relationshipsRead guide
  3. 3Research customer preferencesRead guide
  4. 4Research the market and show a findingRead guide
  5. 5Build and test a simple productRead guide
  6. 6Choose and test a priceRead guide
  7. 7Choose how to reach customersRead guide
  8. 8Create and test a marketing campaignRead guide
Unit 3

Business finance and accounting

Estimate costs, explore funding, and check your financial plans.

  1. 1Estimate your startup costsRead guide
  2. 2Find possible fundingRead guide
  3. 3Develop your pitchRead guide
  4. 4Forecast revenue and build an income statementRead guide
Unit 4

Management and strategy

Assess your skills, make decisions, and bring your project together.

  1. 1Assess the skills your business needsRead guide
  2. 2Choose measures of business performanceRead guide
  3. 3Make a decision with PACEDRead guide
  4. 4Review your competitive positionRead guide
  5. 5Finish your business canvas and appendixRead guide

Check the numbers behind a decision.

Change an assumption. See its effect. Use the result to ask a better question about your business.

Built around the work you need to do.

These guides follow the suggested Business Canvas Project tasks in the College Board Course and Exam Description. Read an explanation, follow an example, then apply it to your own idea.

Ready Pouch is our fictional example business. Its proposed product is a small pencil pouch for students. Meet Ready Pouch

Your project needs your own research and decisions.

Read the official course guide (PDF)