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Entrepreneurship Voc
BU20 Entrepreneurship
Term | Definition |
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Business plan | A proposal that describes a new business |
Demographics | Data that describes a group of people in terms of their age, marital status, family size, ethnic background, gender, education, and income |
Entrepreneur | An individual who undertakes the risk associated with creating, organizing, and owning a business. |
Entrepreneurship | The process of starting and operating one’s own business. |
Free Enterprise System | A system where businesses are owned by private individuals and groups, not by the government. Also called a Market Economy. |
Opportunity | An idea that has commercial value. |
Risk | The chance of damage or loss. |
Venture | A business undertaking involving risk. |
Sole Proprietorship | A business owned and operated by one person. |
Partnership | A form of business ownership where two or more individuals share assets, liabilities, and profits. |
Corporation | A business that is chartered by the state and legally operates apart from its owners. Corporations are owned by stockholder but run by a CEO. |
Franchise | The right to sell a company’s goods or services in a particular geographic area. |
Retail Business | A type of business that sells products directly to consumers. |
Non-profit | An organization that is set up to help those in need but not to make a profit from the business. |
Service business | Work done for others for a profit. |