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Define criteria for identifying and screening new businesses venture opportunities. (I) |
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Use an opportunity assessment process to identify a new business opportunity. (I) |
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Develop a personalized skill and experience inventory and relate the inventory strengths and weaknesses to a new business opportunity. (II) |
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Define the concept of a specific business start-up endeavor through the application of a variety of primary and secondary research techniques. (III) |
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Conduct an interview of with a successful entrepreneur, and communicate the interview results though a written report. (III) |
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Identify and describe the types of viable financing sources for the business. (IV) |
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Explain the marketing, management, operating, financing, and regulatory issues that must be addressed during the start-up phase of the venture. (V) |
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Define the legal and business issues to be addressed in the business start-up. (V) |
Glossary: Startup and Venture Capital terms you should know
The startup world operates on a lot of lingo. This guide will give you a better context to understand the language of startups, venture capitalists, angel investors, and incubators.
Something Ventured: The Story of Silicon Valley's First Venture Capitalists -
This is the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in the 20th century. It is told by the visionary risk-takers who dared to make it happen. SOMETHING VENTURED also features entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Atari, Genentech, Tandem and others.
Silicon Valley - Directed by Randall MacLowry, 1963-; produced by Randall MacLowry, 1963- and Tracy Heather Strain, Film Posse, in American Experience (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2013), 1 hour
Cold - Directed by Julian Jones, fl. 2005; produced by Julian Jones, fl. 2005,Nutopia, in How We Got To Now, Episode 5 (Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2014), 55 mins