small-business
6 free lessons tagged small-business across Business. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
What You Hold, Where It Runs, and Who Is Asking
The practical middle ground: knowing what data you actually have and reducing it, securing devices and home working without a device management budget, and answering the security questionnaires customers increasingly send to their small suppliers.
Ransomware Readiness, and the First Day
Ransomware is the incident that closes small businesses. This lesson covers how it actually unfolds, the decisions that get made badly under pressure, whether to pay, what the first day looks like, and the preparation that turns a business-ending event into a bad week.
The Handful of Controls That Do Almost All the Work
Small businesses are told to do everything and can afford almost nothing. This lesson identifies what small organisations are actually attacked with, why that differs from what security marketing describes, and the small set of controls that removes most of the realistic risk.
The Rules That Still Apply When You Are the Whole Company
Being small exempts you from very little. This lesson covers the obligations a one-person business still carries: honest advertising after the FTC's AI enforcement sweep, fake reviews, telling customers when they are talking to a bot, data protection, and the judgement about what to keep human when nobody is making you.
The Stack That Actually Runs a Small Business
Concrete workflows for a one-person operation: handling enquiries without being interrupted, quoting, keeping the back office current, producing marketing that does not sound generic, and knowing when to stop automating. Plus the ladder from template to fully automated, and where to get off it.
One Person, Every Function: What Actually Constrains a Small Business
A solo owner is not a small version of a company, they are one person switching between every function. This lesson identifies the real constraints, attention and the absence of anyone to check the work, and shows why that changes which AI uses pay off and which quietly create problems.