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By Cynthia L. Greene

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High School students today realize that becoming a business owner is a career option. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDEAS IN ACTION 6E provides students with the knowledge needed to realistically evaluate their potential as a business owner. This text encourages students to examine all the major steps involved in starting a new business: Ownership, Strategy, Finance, and Marketing. As students complete the chapters, they will develop a business plan and learn what it takes to get an entrepreneurial venture off to a good start. Market research, budgeting, selecting a business location, and financing the business are covered using real-life examples that students can relate to. Information on online research and online business planning is also included.

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High School students today realize that becoming a business owner is a career option. ENTREPRENEURSHIP: IDEAS IN ACTION 6E provides students with the knowledge needed to realistically evaluate their potential as a business owner. This text encourages students to examine all the major steps involved in starting a new business: Ownership, Strategy, Finance, and Marketing. As students complete the chapters, they will develop a business plan and learn what it takes to get an entrepreneurial venture off to a good start. Market research, budgeting, selecting a business location, and financing the business are covered using real-life examples that students can relate to. Information on online research and online business planning is also included.

Business Plan: Coverage of a business plan is introduced early in the text and includes Build Your Business Plan Project activities that help students develop a complete business plan by the end of the text.

Ideas in Action: Found in every chapter opener, Ideas in Action offers thought-provoking real-world stories of successful young entrepreneurs that help introduce the important concepts of the chapter. Business organizations and some legislatures are now emphasizing the success of young entrepreneurs.

Develop Your Reading Skills: Brief exercises to reinforce reading skills, provides questions for students to think about as they read the chapter. This feature can be used as an aid in ELS proficiency.

Sharpen Your 21st Century Entrepreneurial Skills: Offers 21st Century skill-building information with questions that help encourage critical thinking.

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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
About the Author
Inside the Student Edition
Chapter 1. Should You Become an Entrepreneur?*Preview this chapter
Chapter 2. Entrepreneurs in a Market Economy
Chapter 3. Develop a Business Plan
Chapter 4. Identify and Meet a Market Need
Chapter 5. Market Your Business
Chapter 6. Distribution, Promotion, and Selling
Chapter 7. Select a Type of Ownership
Chapter 8. Locate and Set up Your Business
Chapter 9. Plan and Track Your Finances
Chapter 10. Operations Management
Chapter 11. Human Resource Management
Chapter 12. Risk Management
Chapter 13. Management for the Future
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Chapter 1. Should You Become an Entrepreneur?Preview this chapter ↗

1.1
All about Entrepreneurship
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1.1a. Entrepreneurship ↗
1.1b. Recognizing Opportunity ↗
1.1c. Business Success or Failure ↗
1.1. Assessment ↗
1.2
Entrepreneurship and You
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1.2a. Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs ↗
1.2b. Characteristics of Good Team Members ↗
1.2c. Are You Right for Entrepreneurship? ↗
1.2. Assessment ↗
1.3
Explore Ideas and Opportunities
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1.3a. Look for Ideas ↗
1.3b. Investigate Opportunities ↗
1.3c. Set Goals ↗
1.3. Assessment ↗
1.4
Problem Solving for Entrepreneurs
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1.4a. Use the Problem-Solving Model ↗
1.4b. Problem-Solving Skills ↗
1.4. Assessment ↗
Summary ↗
What Do You Know Now? ↗
Key Terms Review ↗
Review Your Knowledge ↗
Apply What You Learned ↗
Make Academic Connections ↗
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