Entrepreneurship & Small Business

If you're going to start a business, make sure you're prepared. No matter what you're making, providing, or selling, you'll need to know the basics of business plans, marketing, accounting, and operations.

What is Entrepreneurship & Small Business?

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching, and running a new business or enterprise. A small business is a privately owned and operated business with fewer than 500 employees.

Most successful entrepreneurs have a combination of qualities, including creativity, risk-taking, determination, and perseverance. They also possess a strong understanding of the market, customers, and competition.

A key part of entrepreneurship is developing a business model, or the way in which a business will operate and make money. This includes identifying a target market, offering a unique product or service, and generating revenue.

Small business owners must also be adept at marketing, sales, finance, and management. They must be able to wear many hats and juggle multiple responsibilities.

The ability to successfully launch and grow a small business is essential to the health of the economy. Small businesses create jobs, spur innovation, and drive economic growth.

Of course, not all businesses are successful. In fact, most businesses fail. But for those who are willing to take the risk, entrepreneurship & small business can be a great way to achieve financial independence and build something that is truly your own.

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Resources

Micro Business for Teens Curriculum

Micro Business for Teens Curriculum

MicroBusinessForTeens.com is a real person, me, Carol Topp, CPA. I’m the author of the Micro Business for Teens series and operate an accounting practice (a micro business!) that specializes in tax preparation, small/micro business start-ups, and non...

The Making Of A Young Entrepreneur: A Kid's Guide To Developing The Mind-Set For Success

The Making Of A Young Entrepreneur: A Kid's Guide To Developing The Mind-Set For Success

A 16-year-old earning $60,000 a month working with such clients as IBM and Microsoft? A 14-year-old earning $1.2 million in a year . . . making jam? The number of child entrepreneurs has increased unimaginably over the past 20 years, and this rate wi...

What Is Entrepreneurship?

What Is Entrepreneurship?

What does it mean to be entrepreneurial? What virtues do entrepreneurs have and what behaviors do they exhibit? What kind of character do successful entrepreneurs tend to have? What is the specific role of entrepreneurs in the economy? What do entrep...

Grades 3-5 Economics: Savings and Profit

Grades 3-5 Economics: Savings and Profit

3-5 Core Curriculum - Economics: Savings and Profit In this fun and interactive unit study, designed to meet and exceed state and national standards, your children will explore personal finance and entrepreneurship. With over 22 activities and...

All Terrain Brain

All Terrain Brain

Three Chicks Media, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and WEATHERHEAD Experience Design Group have collaborated to create All Terrain Brain(ATB) to help kids ages 8-12 develop the self-confidence, perseverance, motivation, and creative thinking s...

User Innovation: A Path to Entrepreneurship

User Innovation: A Path to Entrepreneurship

We’ll let you in on a secret. Innovation isn’t confined inside the walls of research labs swarming with PhDs. More often than not, innovation is about ordinary people solving problems that matter to them personally. This could be you. First, think a...

Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies

Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies

About this Course The path for entrepreneurs to grow their companies outside of well-developed entrepreneurial ecosystems like Silicon Valley is challenging. Most markets around the world do not look like Silicon Valley, and they never will. But the...

Young Entrepreneurs

Young Entrepreneurs

This course introduces young entrepreneurs to the basics of creating and financing a successful business. You will learn to evaluate your ideas, choose the best financing options and legally register your business. The course will point you to...

Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System

Technology Commercialization, Part 1: Setting up your Idea Filtering System

New ideas based on high-technology research have a high failure rate because they hit the ground running with lopsided priorities and misalignments. Students complete this course with an Innovation Creed (“Why are you doing this?”) and a customized I...

BUS305: Small Business Management

BUS305: Small Business Management

This course will introduce you to entrepreneurship and business planning. By way of introduction, the word entrepreneur originates from the French word entreprendre, meaning to undertake. Today, we define an entrepreneur as an owner or manager of a b...

Forging Christian Entrepreneurship

Forging Christian Entrepreneurship

Members get access to 190+ professionally-produced videos that explain proven practices and principles such as: sales, marketing, accounting, finance, business law, human resources, business planning, business communications, operations, technology,...

Action-Driven Business Plan: From the ‘Classroom’ to the World

Action-Driven Business Plan: From the ‘Classroom’ to the World

This assignment asks you, our learner, to pull together all you have learned in the three startup entrepreneurship courses that comprise “Cracking the Creativity Code” specialization. This project promotes deep understanding of the action...