Business Life Cycle
Legal Forms of Business
Vocabulary
Financial Environment
Profit
100

This is the entrepreneur-in-the-garage stage.

What is startup?

100

This is typically a very small business, owned and operated by one person.

What is a a sole proprietorship?

100

Any form of wealth that can be used to create more wealth

What is capital?

100

 something that can be touched

What is a tangible product?

100

The expense required to acquire or produce something.

What is Cost?

200

Selling your idea to investors or banks

What is raising capital?

200

When two or more people start a business together

What is a partnership?

200

Money, goods, or services owed to someone else.

What is debt?

200

Besides funding government services, ____decrease the amount of profit a business earns.

What are taxes?

200

Money earned after expenses are subtracted from revenue.

What is profit?

300

You are seeing a sharp increase in sales, and you’re making a small profit.

What is Growth/Takeoff?

300

A very large company with multiple factories and hundreds or thousands of employees.

What is a corporation?

300

A person who takes initiative in business, organizes and manages business resources and operations, and assumes the risks of the business.

What is an entrepreneur?

300

A product that cannot be touched.

What is an intangible product?

300

Total sales from goods and services before expenses and taxes.

What is revenue?

400

The rapid growth in sales has leveled out, and you are now focused on maintaining your market share and making profits

What is Maturity?

400

Combine aspects of both a partnership and a corporation in that they operate and are taxed as a partnership or sole proprietorship but have limited liability for the owners.

What is an LLC?

400

money paid for the use of another person’s money.

What is interest?

400

The money originally invested or the amount borrowed on which interest is calculated.

What is principal?

400

An item of value owned by an individual or firm.

What is an Asset?

500

Your business has lost its edge against the competition and sales are dropping,

What is decline?

500

A disadvantage of this business is that it's complex to start and operate.

What is a corporation?

500

Intangible property that is a result of something created by the mind—for example, trademarks, and patents.

What is intellectual property?

500

The world of business, trade, and economics.

What is a marketplace?

500

Increasing market penetration by moving into new markets and broadening the consumer base or increasing the product line to sell a variety of products

What is diversification?

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