diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fdd2a88..eebf240 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,8 +10,16 @@ meaning "Onboarding, Change, Offboarding"
 - set up a virtual environment with virtualenvwrapper or some other
 environment managing tool
 
-- use this environment
+- use this environment and do
 
     pip install django
 
 - clone this repository
+
+- initialise your database with
+
+    python manage.py migrate
+
+- start your development server with
+
+    python manage.py runserver