Business Types
This business type is owned by one person and is the easiest to start
What is a Sole Proprietorship?
This public database tracks lawsuits involving artificial intelligence across the U.S.
What is the Database of AI Litigation (DAIL)?
This operation involves creating or delivering a product or service.
What is production?
This is the name, logo, and image customers associate with a company.
What is a brand?
She built a hair‑care empire and is considered one of America’s first self‑made female millionaires.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
This business structure protects owners from personal liability while allowing flexible taxation.
What is a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)?
This type of lawsuit claims companies misled investors by overstating their AI capabilities.
What is securities fraud litigation?
This is a production process in which goods or services are turned out in a long production run on an ongoing basis over time.
What is a continuous process?
This consists of all those individuals or households that want goods or services for their personal use.
What is consumer market?
She founded Carol’s Daughter, which later became part of L’Oréal.
Who is Lisa Price?
This business type exists to serve a mission rather than generate profits for owners.
What is a nonprofit organization?
U.S. courts have ruled that this is required for copyright protection of creative works.
What is human authorship?
This system combines computer-aided design with computer-aided manufacturing.
What is computer-integrated manufacturing?
The 4Ps of Marketing
What are product, promotion, placement, and price?
She founded Mielle Organics, a natural hair‑care brand started in her kitchen.
Who is Monique Rodriguez?
This business structure protects each partner from being personally responsible for another partner’s mistakes.
What is a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)?
This computer scientist sued after his AI‑generated artwork was denied copyright protection.
Who is Stephen Thaler?
This type of facility layout is also known as an assembly line.
What is a product layout?
This consists of businesses, individuals, and organizations that want business goods and services that will help them produce or supply their own business goods and services.
What is business-to-business (B2B) market?
This refers to the extra amount women are charged for goods and services marketed specifically to them, such as personal care products, clothing, and toys, compared to nearly identical versions marketed to men
What is the "pink tax"?
This type of business is created primarily to earn profits that can be distributed to owners or shareholders.
What is a for-profit business?
When Big Tech firms hire a startup's leadership and license their intellectual property (IP) to bypass Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) merger review.
What is "shadow merging"?
This type of diagram allows teams to determine the best sequencing of tasks.
What is a PERT chart?
This is the study of how people's brains respond to advertising and other brand-related messages by scientifically monitoring brainwave activity, eye tracking, and skin response.
What is neuromarketing?
This is defined as women in the U.S. working full-time making approximately 81–85% of what men earn.
What is the gender pay gap?