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BDI3C · Grade 11 · College Preparation

BDI3C — Entrepreneurship: The Venture

Students learn how entrepreneurs recognize opportunities, generate ideas and organize resources, and create a venture plan for a school-based or student-run business.Taking this course? Business 101 is free and self-paced and covers a lot of the same ground — you don't need your teacher to sign up first. Teaching it? What Launch League can support, and what it cannot, is set out below.

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Grade 11 · College Preparation

BDI3CEntrepreneurship: The Venture

Built for it

The course's venture plan for a school-based or student-run business is exactly what Launch League is built around. Students can plan it, validate it, actually run it through the Launch Sprint, and enter it.

Relevant Launch League work

  • Recognizing opportunities
  • Idea generation
  • Organizing resources
  • Venture planning
  • A school-based or student-run business
  • Entrepreneurial traits and skills
  • Execution and reflection

Already teaching it your way? Students with an existing venture plan or an existing school business don't restart. They bring the plan to the competition as it is, and start the Launch Sprint at the stage their business has actually reached.

What Launch League doesn't do: Launch League doesn't produce the full venture plan in the course's format; the one-page plan is a summary, and the teacher's venture plan assignment stays the teacher's.

Course title and description from the Ontario curriculum (Grades 11 and 12 Business Studies, 2006). Launch League can support learning in this course; it doesn't deliver course expectations or grant credit, and the teacher decides what counts and how it's assessed. Expectation-level detail is in the curriculum sheet (free teacher account).

Suggested approach

How to use it with BDI3C

Suggested starting point: use with my course. You can use it any way that works for your class.

  1. Create a class

    Request teacher access and create a class at Your classes. Students join with a six-letter code.

  2. Pick only what fits your unit

    Use the Launch League work listed below that connects to what you're teaching. Skip the rest.

  3. Let students bring what they have

    A plan, a deck or a business from your class is where they start: students link it and tick what it covers. Nobody redoes work to match our format.

  4. Ask for real-world support

    Mentors, judges, a pitch workshop or a local entrepreneur — send a request.

  5. Enter, if students want to

    The provincial competition is optional and free, and every complete entry gets written feedback.

After the unit

Students can keep going

The assignment can end without the business ending. Students can validate it, sell it, launch it and compete on their own, without a teacher managing any of it.

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