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Entrepreneurial Literacy EMPOWERS Everyone!
NATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK - February 20 - 27, 2010
Earn Your "GENIUS" Certificate
Teachers - Students - Parents - Entrepreneurs - Officials
Do You Know How Entrepreneurship REALLY WORKS?
Test yourself on these "20 Questions for All Americans"
Create activities using the "20 Questions for All Americans“
SHARE YOUR ACTIVITIES ON YOUR STATE MAP …. www.nationaleweek.org
TRY THIS WITH “20 QUESTIONS FOR ALL AMERICANS”
Each table at the conference found a question on their
table. After discussing the answer to their question a
spokesman stood and shared their ideas.
Note that these questions lead to discussion….not a true or
false answer. We did have fun too!
At the end of the session everyone received a “GENIUS
Certificate” demonstrating their entrepreneurial literacy!
Feel free to use these slides with an activity with your own
students and post their pictures!
1. How can a person's career skills and experiences lead to becoming a
successful entrepreneur?
2. What personality traits are more likely to lead to success as an entrepreneur?
3. Are there differences between a market economy, entrepreneurship,
free enterprise, and capitalism? Explain.
4. What taxes do entrepreneurs pay?
5. What items are part of a firm's operating costs?
6. How can an entrepreneur learn about what the customers want?
7. How can computer skills help with business operations?
8. How do entrepreneurs deal with risks?
9. How is personal financial literacy related to business financial literacy?
10. What factors determine where to locate a business?
11. Why is branding important?
12. How does competition affect entrepreneurship?
13. What percent of American firms have no employees working for them?
Why is this important?
14. What are some sources of funding to start a business?
15. What can an entrepreneur do if business sales drop off?
16. What should an entrepreneur consider when hiring employees
for the business?
17. How does an entrepreneur work in a country that doesn't support capitalism?
18. What is "tolerance of ambiguity" and why is it important
to an entrepreneur?
19. How might an entrepreneur use company profits?
20. Why do entrepreneurs say they are in charge of their own fate?
PS…..
Thanks to one sharp teacher who found the typo on our
GENIUS Certificate
JOIN THE BEST-DRESSED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TO
CELEBRATE National Entrepreneurship Week 2010!
Remember… It takes 50 states to make an
“entrepreneurial nation”!
Let us hear from each of you!