Entrepreneurs
A person who starts his or her own business with the intent of earning a profit.
What is an entrepreneur?
To think imaginatively and resourcefully.
What does it mean to be creative?
The means by which a product or service is made known and sold to customers.
What is marketing?
A way to buy a business for which the price has not been set.
What is an auction?
A document that details what a business is about, what is important to the business, and how the business will operate.
What is a business plan?
Income earned after all expenses are paid.
What is profit?
People who study with experts in their chosen field.
Who are apprentices?
I am the richest African American of the 21st century with a net worth of over $3 billion and got my fist big break at a local black radio station.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
Offering an amount as the price for something.
What is a bid?
A person who sees a need in a society or a community and pursues a solution using his or her entrepreneurial skills and sound business practices.
What is a social entrepreneur?
An item created for use or sale.
What is a product?
Creating a product or service that people want to buy or use.
What does it mean to fill a need?
I started off as a farm boy drawing cartoons of my neighbor's horses but my first original character was a mouse with a girlfriend named Minnie.
Who is Walt Disney?
I was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, but I was best known for my popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect ways.
Who is Rube Goldberg?
A community of people sharing customs, laws, and organizations.
What is a society?
A person who purchases a product or service.
What is a customer?
A technique that entrepreneurs use to generate business and product ideas.
What is brainstorming?
I was a struggling single mother living on welfare when I started writing books about a misfit gang of witches and wizards. Now my net worth is estimated at $1 billion.
Who is J. K. Rowling?
The inclined plane, the screw, the wedge, the lever, the pulley, and the wheel and axle.
What are the six simple machines?
I am an American entrepreneur, author, philanthropist and founder of a company whose official name is Shoes for Better Tomorrows which uses the "One for One" business model where we donate a new pair of shoes for every pair of shoes sold.
Who is Blake Mycoskie?
At the age of 60, I used my monthly, $105 Social Security check to start my business using a secret recipe based on 11 herbs and spices that I perfected over several years.
Who is Colonel Sanders or what is KFC?
The process of determining the customers' needs and understanding how a product or service can fill these needs.
What is market research?
I was the first black female self-made millionaire. My parents and older siblings were slaves in Louisiana but I was the first in my family to be born into freedom. I started a line of beauty and hair products specifically designed for black women.
Who is Sarah Breedlove or Madam CJ Walker?
I was an American agricultural scientist and inventor who tried to help poor farmers in Alabama grow alternative crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes while I was working as a professor at Tuskegee.
Who was George Washington Carver?
You may have seen our natural products in your local grocery store. What you may not know is that our name is actually part of our mission statement. It tells you who we focus on as we try to make the world healthy, sustainable, and equitable.
What is Seventh Generation?