Startup Resource Guide
This detailed document is a handholding guide for start-ups that outlines the key steps to formalizing and establishing your business in Belize and the necessary entities that one must come in contact with while doing so.
Business Model Template
This is an easy to create tool that is used by new and existing businesses highlight nine key areas of starting and doing business. It allows for focus on operational as well as strategic management and marketing plan while utilizing methodologies used by Skype and Apple to attain product success in the market.
Lean Canvas
This easy to create tool, which is an offspring of the Business Model, is very actionable and entrepreneur focused, as it focuses on highlighting important start-up aspects.
Business Plan Templates
These easy to follow templates allows start-up and existing businesses to put structure to their business or business idea by highlighting key background information of the business and its founder, outlining key goals and objectives of the business, and plans for attaining these goals.
Financial Templates
This Excel document is SBDCBelize’s combined Financial Statements that includes easy to follow/fill-in templates to all the necessary financial statements. These user friendly templates are equipped with all formulas for user convenience.
Marketing Plan Template
A Marketing Plan is a structured document that outlines all marketing and advertising efforts of a business for a specific upcoming time period. It highlights target markets and company positioning, and describes the intended marketing mix to be used.
Funding Sources (Financial Institutions in Belize)
This data base includes names and contact information for institutions that offer loan financing to start-up and existing businesses. It includes commercial banks, development banks, and Credit Unions within Belize.
Grant Funding Sources – This database includes names and contact information of Institutions and organizations that offer grant funding, both locally and regionally.
