Entrepreneurship & Small Business
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
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
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...
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...
Discovering the Entrepreneur in You
Discovering the Entrepreneur in You Discovering the Entrepreneur in You will allow you to experience the thrill of being in business for yourself! This course will teach the basic principles of business by showing you how to really do it with a hand...
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...
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship
This course assists aspiring and active entrepreneurs in developing great ideas into great companies. With strong economies presenting rich opportunities for new venture creation, and challenging economic times presenting the necessity for many to ma...
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...
Innovation for Entrepreneurs: From Idea to Marketplace
Develop insights on navigating the innovation process from idea generation to commercialization. Build knowledge on how to create strategies to bring innovations to market. Develop an innovation portfolio and business model canvas for your venture. W...
Mixergy
A collection of tutorials, introductions, and podcasts from successful entrepreneurs....
Entrepreneurship Capstone
Integrate the tools and concepts from the specialization courses to develop a comprehensive business plan. Choose to enhance new venture concepts previously explored in specialization courses, or develop a new concept for this capstone project. Devel...
Entrepreneurship 2: Launching your Start-Up
Once you have a prototype and a clearer vision of the opportunity, you’ll need to create a small organization to discover how to create a repeatable and scalable business model. Designed to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the critical co...
Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability
Start-ups can benefit from a wide variety of financing options on the path to profitability, but how do you know which one to choose? This course explores different financing models, including bootstrapping, organic growth, debt and risk capital, and...