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The app made in 2008 to help alleviate traffic congestion by the power and communication of the drivers.

What is Waze?

100

Known for its popular logo of a little white ghost on a yellow background, this company came to life in 2011.

What is Snapchat?

100

The most basic version of a product.

What is a Prototype?

100

Approaching a large group of professional investors for funding.

What is Venture Capital?

100

Elon musk founded the first major privately owned space logistics company, which paved the way for thousands of privately owned new satellites and other infrastructure in orbit. What is this company?

What is SpaceX?

200

The college dropout who started his business in a garage with co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976.

Who is Steve Jobs?

200

The most commonly used search engine in the world goes by this name.

What is Google?

200

The overall statement about how your product involves and solves consumers' current problems.

What is a Value Proposition?

200

Borrowing money through a bank under your business account.

What is a business loan?

200

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed a personal computer that would completely change they way we work, communicate, and live. What was this first innovative product called?

What is the Apple-1?

300

The now famous business that started in 2008 as a bed and breakfast with three college students renting out their room to travelers.

What is AIR BNB?

300

This company's founder is infamous for “stealing” this company from the Winklevoss twins while at Harvard.

What is Facebook?

300

A concise introduction to your business.

What is an Elevator Pitch?

300

Raising money through a public campaign designed to bring in vast numbers of smaller contributors.

What is Crowdfunding?

300

The Ford Motor Company was founded with one goal; to mass produce the first affordable automobile. Who founded and developed this new technology?

Who is Henry Ford?

400

The startup online business located in Brooklyn created by Rob Kalin for selling homemade goods and now a billion dollar company for other small business owners to sell products.

What is Etsy?

400

This man reinvented electric cars and has been leading the US in space travel to mars.

Who is Elon Musk?

400

A corporate structure encouraged for start-up entrepreneurs.

What is a Limited Liability Corporation? 

400

Selling a product before actually producing it to raise capital to produce the product.

What is Customer Funding?

400

In 2008, Tesla released their first All electric car. While this was far from the first electric car, it was the first electric car to be widely adopted outside of the niche market electric vehicles had previously been in. What was this car called?

What is the Tesla Roadster?

500

The product that Ralph Lauren, the entrepreneur and owner of Ralph Lauren, first start selling.

What are ties?

500

This company is famous for changing the world of business social media being the first of its kind founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman.

What is LinkedIn?

500

A basic skill for networking that can lead to a successful startup business that has gained popularity in the last decade.

What is Social Media?

500

A company that will help accelerate a startups growth by offering mentorship, help marketing and developing, and capital, in exchange for either cash or equity.

What is a startup accelerator?

500

In 1995, Pierre Omidyar revolutionized the internet by creating the first massive open market platform. What is this company?

What is Ebay?

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