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BEP2O · Grade 10 · Open

BEP2O — Launching and Leading a Business

Students plan and launch a venture and learn the business functions behind it — market forces, marketing, operations, accounting and managing people — alongside the entrepreneurial mindset and project management.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 10 · Open

BEP2OLaunching and Leading a Business

Built for it

This is the closest fit on the Ontario timetable. The one-page plan, the numbers, the Launch Sprint and the competition give students a real venture to apply every business function to.

Relevant Launch League work

  • Venture planning and feasibility
  • Customer and competitor research
  • Pricing, start-up costs and break-even
  • Marketing and sales
  • Operations and delivery
  • Tracking money in and out
  • Leading and managing a team
  • Launching the venture

Possible evidence of student work

Already teaching it your way? If your students already write a business plan, it can be the plan they pitch. The Launch Sprint then picks up where the assignment ends — the venture doesn't have to stop when the unit does.

What Launch League doesn't do: The economic-foundations strand (market forces, trade, government intervention) is only partly supported, through extension class 8.

Course title and description from the Ontario curriculum (2024 course document). 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 BEP2O

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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