1) The document discusses entrepreneurship and starting a business. It provides definitions of key terms like entrepreneurs, venture capital, equity, business models, and intellectual property.
2) Students are instructed to complete exercises on identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis) for different companies. They are also tasked with developing new business concepts and models.
3) The document covers various aspects of entrepreneurship like funding sources, mature vs growing markets, and how to structure an effective elevator pitch. Students are asked to analyze business models of existing companies.
The document provides an agenda for an entrepreneurship class, including discussions on starting a business, understanding why entrepreneurs are important, drafting business plan sections, and working on presentations. Students are assigned to work on sections of a business plan and presentation slides in groups. They are also to find resources to include in an appendix and dress professionally for the final presentation. The grading rubric emphasizes written work, oral presentation, and teamwork.
This document contains notes from an entrepreneurship class discussing various topics related to starting a business including business plans, marketing, financing, and social ventures. Key points discussed include defining entrepreneurship, developing an elevator pitch, identifying target markets, funding sources, intellectual property, and writing a business plan with specific sections like vision, mission, objectives and strategy. Students engage in exercises analyzing existing businesses, developing business concepts, and drafting advertisements for social venture ideas.
This document provides biographies of Ty Tribble and Bo Short, who are recognized experts in network marketing. Ty Tribble is an internet entrepreneur and former president of a network marketing company. He authors influential blogs on network marketing and social media. Bo Short is an author, speaker and leadership expert who has spoken to over 1 million people worldwide. The document also contains testimonials praising Ty and Bo from other network marketing leaders and executives.
This document provides guidance on pitching a venture capital firm. It recommends including the following essential elements in a pitch: a 30-second elevator pitch, a product demo ("the money shot"), information on market size, and details on customers and revenue. It also recommends focusing on the team, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plan, funding needs, and milestones. The overall message is to keep the pitch concise, demonstrate the solution, and emphasize the problems it solves, market opportunity, and team's experience.
Entrepreneurship was presented by several individuals on the topic of self-driven entrepreneurs. The objective was to explore circumstances and conditions leading to successful entrepreneurs. Maintaining a business costs approximately Rs. 900 per month for transportation on one side which includes vehicle maintenance, tolls, and taxes.
This document proposes a new vocational education model in India focused on entrepreneurship education to address high youth unemployability. It notes that current education fails to provide useful skills, with many students lacking communication skills and failing or uninterested in classes. It advocates implementing entrepreneurship education in schools and colleges by adopting a formal curriculum, creating an innovation fund for programs, and engaging local entrepreneurs as mentors. This would help students develop entrepreneurial skills and mindsets through experiential learning of starting real businesses. The goals are to increase career opportunities and engagement, address skill gaps, and support overall economic growth. Challenges include lack of access currently and ensuring entrepreneurship education is integrated into the education system.
Farmer's Agribusiness Training Course: Module 3 - Entrepreneurship. Lesson 5:...Saide OER Africa
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This Farmers' Agribusiness training course has been developed to help both farmers and farmer organisations. Its intention is to provide access to provide access to additional skills and knowledge that will allow farmers to move from a 'farm' to a 'firm'. This lesson describes funding possibilities, the process for sourcing funds, the measures that should be taken to ensure effective utilization of funds, repayment procedures.
A business plan is a written document that describes the key internal and external elements involved in starting a new business venture. It serves a dual purpose, both for insiders like employees to stay aligned, and outsiders like investors to evaluate the potential of investing. A good business plan follows a conventional structure for ease of reading, provides concise details on all important aspects of the business in 25-35 pages, and recognizes that the plan may need to change as new information emerges during the writing and feedback process.
The document discusses the importance of achieving product-market fit for startups. It describes how the author's startup went through multiple pivots before finding product-market fit and success. Some key points:
- Startups often fail because they do not achieve product-market fit, meaning customers are not buying their product.
- The author's startup went through years of building products customers did not want before finding an email-based virtual assistant service that customers were willing to pay for.
- Achieving product-market fit allows startups to raise more funding and grow more rapidly through spending on customer acquisition.
- Markets should be estimated in terms of total addressable market (TAM), serviceable
10 Tips on How to Pitch a VC (FOWA, London)Dave McClure
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The document provides 10 tips for pitching a venture capital firm, including keeping the elevator pitch short at 30 seconds, focusing on the problem rather than the solution, demonstrating the solution, showing the size of the target market, outlining the business model and revenue sources, discussing any proprietary technology, comparing competitors, explaining the marketing plan, introducing the founding team, and detailing funding needs and milestones. Additional resources for startup metrics, sample pitches, and blogs are also referenced.
1) The document discusses supply and demand concepts through a simulation about Walmart. It explains how Walmart uses its size to lower costs from suppliers and control waste to offer lower prices to shoppers.
2) Factors that can impact supply such as input costs, productivity, and technology are reviewed. Examples are given on how these factors can increase supply if costs are lowered or productivity is improved.
3) The class will have a group quiz to discuss supply and demand questions and demonstrate their understanding. Preparation with their group is encouraged before the individual quiz.
The document provides tips for pitching venture capitalists (VCs) to obtain funding. It outlines 10 essential elements to include in a pitch, such as an elevator pitch, problem description, solution, market size, business model, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plan, team, and funding needs/milestones. It emphasizes making the pitch memorable, obvious, and fun while demonstrating an unfair advantage, large market opportunity, and achievable milestones that will increase company value. Graphics, customer testimonials, and working demos or screenshots are highly recommended to capture attention and showcase the product or solution.
How to Pitch a VC, aka Startup Viagra (Oct 2009)Dave McClure
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The document provides tips for pitching venture capitalists (VCs) to obtain funding. It outlines 10 essential elements to include in a pitch, such as an elevator pitch, problem description, solution, market size, business model, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plan, team, and funding needs/milestones. It emphasizes making the pitch memorable, obvious, and fun while demonstrating an unfair advantage, large market opportunity, and achievable milestones that will increase company value. Graphics, customer testimonials, and working demos or screenshots are highly recommended to capture attention and showcase the product or solution.
The document provides an agenda and notes for a class on market failures. It discusses different types of market failures including externalities, public goods, basic research, oligopolies and price fixing. Examples are given for each type and students complete exercises analyzing cases involving pollution, space exploration, and other topics. They also participate in a simulated marketplace and debate policies around taxing externalities. The goal is for students to understand how and why markets can fail and for the government to have a role in addressing failures.
Class 1: Introduction to web technology entrepreneurship allanchao
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This document provides an agenda and overview for an introductory class on web startups and the Lean Startup methodology. The class covers the context and history of web startups, including the dot-com bubble. It discusses that ideas have little value on their own and that execution is key to success. The document then introduces the Lean Startup methodology, including minimum viable products, agile development, and the customer development process of discovery, validation, creation and company building. It concludes with assigning reading materials and noting that next class will involve practice startup pitches to form project teams.
How 2 Pitch a VC (New Delhi, Dec 2011)Dave McClure
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The document provides advice on how to pitch startups to venture capitalists (VCs) in 10 slides or less. It recommends including an elevator pitch, describing the problem being solved, the proposed solution, market size and potential, revenue models, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plans, the founding team, and funding requests and milestones. It emphasizes clearly explaining the problem and how the solution benefits customers, demonstrating the product, and having an experienced founding team.
One of the great irony of successful companies is how easily they can fail. New companies are founded to take advantage of some new technology. They become highly successful and but when the technology shifts, something new comes along, they are unable to adapt and fail. This is the innovators dilemma.
Then there are companies that manage to survive. For example, Kodak survived two platform shift, only til fail the third. IBM has survived over 100 years. What do successful companies do differently?
1) The document discusses various types of market failures including externalities, public goods, monopolies, and oligopolies. It provides examples like pollution, national defense, and industries with few competitors.
2) Key causes of market failure are explored such as free riders for public goods and the tragedy of the commons when no one owns a resource.
3) Students engage in debates and case studies on topics like funding for space exploration and stem cell research, as well as developing antitrust plans for companies like Microsoft and Comcast.
際際滷s I created for Pitch Deck seminar I gave at Samurai Startup Island in Tokyo, October 7, 2015, to help entrepreneurs craft a presentation to tell the story of their startup clearly and persuasively.
Discussion about how to utilize various crowdsourcing tools and resources as an affiliate marketer and merchant to improve conversions and improve revenue.
Experience level: Intermediate
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Marketing
Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder, 99designs, Flippa & SitePoint (Twitter @sitepointmatt)
ZapMeals is an online meal ordering and delivery service that connects local food preparers with hungry consumers. It aims to solve the problems of finding good fast food options and long wait times for delivery that both preparers and consumers currently face. ZapMeals uses a proprietary algorithm to optimize ordering, preparation times, and delivery routes to provide the fastest delivery. It plans to generate revenue from transaction fees from both preparers and consumers, as well as advertising and supplies. The founders believe the $100 billion online food delivery market is primed for disruption and that ZapMeals' focus on speed and optimization gives it an unfair advantage over competitors.
Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley (update...Yevgeniy Brikman
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[Updated May 5, 2017] "Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way." These are my personal observations on a few traits that make startups successful. You can find a video of the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D9oXCK2lM and the book at http://www.hello-startup.net/.
The document provides an overview of a lesson on supply and demand that includes:
1) An agenda covering an introduction to supply and demand and factors that influence them such as price, income, tastes, and substitutes.
2) Notes on key concepts related to demand including the law of demand, demand curves, individual vs market demand, and how demand can change with price, income, tastes, expectations, substitutes, and complements.
3) Instructions for students to participate in a marketplace simulation, reflect on their profits, and consider how marketing could be improved to better meet consumer demand.
The document proposes hosting "The Code Show", a lecture and contest series to strengthen the Los Angeles startup community. It would bring together existing startup groups, identify gaps, and encourage new clubs. A proposed business model involves running educational lectures and a contest using a card game. Sponsorships would fund prizes and community events to raise the profile of sponsors and connect startups to resources and funding. The goal is to establish LA as a major startup destination through community building.
Startup & Marketing #4 : how to start a startupJean Michel
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The document provides guidance on how to start a successful startup by focusing on customer discovery and validation. It discusses that the top reasons startups fail include building something people don't want and poor execution. The key is to test ideas quickly through minimum viable products and customer interviews to identify product-market fit before running out of resources. The Lean Startup methodology advocates building, measuring and learning through iterative customer feedback.
The document provides an overview of software pricing strategies. It begins with an anecdote about how Hewlett and Packard arbitrarily chose their first product's price, highlighting the challenges of pricing. It then uses a simple example to introduce economic concepts for understanding pricing, including representing demand curves graphically and calculating revenue. The document aims to help product managers and entrepreneurs understand pricing through both economic and psychological lenses.
Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide To Software Pricing
Written by Neil Davidson (Founder, Redgate Software & Business of Software Conference)
1) The document provides instructions for writing a journal entry separating today from yesterday, including writing the date, topic, and an opener response with opinions, questions, or a summary.
2) It also lists focusing and awareness practices like breathing exercises and noticing one's surroundings.
3) The instructions conclude with choosing one thing from a reflection to share with a partner and signing each other's journals to verify the sharing.
The document discusses different levels of government in California including federal, state, and local governments. It provides information on the structure of state government such as the legislature, governor, and state constitution. It also discusses local governments like Santa Clara County and the cities and school districts within it. Key points covered include the roles and responsibilities of different governing bodies, election terms, and contact information for local representatives.
The document discusses the importance of achieving product-market fit for startups. It describes how the author's startup went through multiple pivots before finding product-market fit and success. Some key points:
- Startups often fail because they do not achieve product-market fit, meaning customers are not buying their product.
- The author's startup went through years of building products customers did not want before finding an email-based virtual assistant service that customers were willing to pay for.
- Achieving product-market fit allows startups to raise more funding and grow more rapidly through spending on customer acquisition.
- Markets should be estimated in terms of total addressable market (TAM), serviceable
10 Tips on How to Pitch a VC (FOWA, London)Dave McClure
油
The document provides 10 tips for pitching a venture capital firm, including keeping the elevator pitch short at 30 seconds, focusing on the problem rather than the solution, demonstrating the solution, showing the size of the target market, outlining the business model and revenue sources, discussing any proprietary technology, comparing competitors, explaining the marketing plan, introducing the founding team, and detailing funding needs and milestones. Additional resources for startup metrics, sample pitches, and blogs are also referenced.
1) The document discusses supply and demand concepts through a simulation about Walmart. It explains how Walmart uses its size to lower costs from suppliers and control waste to offer lower prices to shoppers.
2) Factors that can impact supply such as input costs, productivity, and technology are reviewed. Examples are given on how these factors can increase supply if costs are lowered or productivity is improved.
3) The class will have a group quiz to discuss supply and demand questions and demonstrate their understanding. Preparation with their group is encouraged before the individual quiz.
The document provides tips for pitching venture capitalists (VCs) to obtain funding. It outlines 10 essential elements to include in a pitch, such as an elevator pitch, problem description, solution, market size, business model, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plan, team, and funding needs/milestones. It emphasizes making the pitch memorable, obvious, and fun while demonstrating an unfair advantage, large market opportunity, and achievable milestones that will increase company value. Graphics, customer testimonials, and working demos or screenshots are highly recommended to capture attention and showcase the product or solution.
How to Pitch a VC, aka Startup Viagra (Oct 2009)Dave McClure
油
The document provides tips for pitching venture capitalists (VCs) to obtain funding. It outlines 10 essential elements to include in a pitch, such as an elevator pitch, problem description, solution, market size, business model, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plan, team, and funding needs/milestones. It emphasizes making the pitch memorable, obvious, and fun while demonstrating an unfair advantage, large market opportunity, and achievable milestones that will increase company value. Graphics, customer testimonials, and working demos or screenshots are highly recommended to capture attention and showcase the product or solution.
The document provides an agenda and notes for a class on market failures. It discusses different types of market failures including externalities, public goods, basic research, oligopolies and price fixing. Examples are given for each type and students complete exercises analyzing cases involving pollution, space exploration, and other topics. They also participate in a simulated marketplace and debate policies around taxing externalities. The goal is for students to understand how and why markets can fail and for the government to have a role in addressing failures.
Class 1: Introduction to web technology entrepreneurship allanchao
油
This document provides an agenda and overview for an introductory class on web startups and the Lean Startup methodology. The class covers the context and history of web startups, including the dot-com bubble. It discusses that ideas have little value on their own and that execution is key to success. The document then introduces the Lean Startup methodology, including minimum viable products, agile development, and the customer development process of discovery, validation, creation and company building. It concludes with assigning reading materials and noting that next class will involve practice startup pitches to form project teams.
How 2 Pitch a VC (New Delhi, Dec 2011)Dave McClure
油
The document provides advice on how to pitch startups to venture capitalists (VCs) in 10 slides or less. It recommends including an elevator pitch, describing the problem being solved, the proposed solution, market size and potential, revenue models, proprietary technology, competition, marketing plans, the founding team, and funding requests and milestones. It emphasizes clearly explaining the problem and how the solution benefits customers, demonstrating the product, and having an experienced founding team.
One of the great irony of successful companies is how easily they can fail. New companies are founded to take advantage of some new technology. They become highly successful and but when the technology shifts, something new comes along, they are unable to adapt and fail. This is the innovators dilemma.
Then there are companies that manage to survive. For example, Kodak survived two platform shift, only til fail the third. IBM has survived over 100 years. What do successful companies do differently?
1) The document discusses various types of market failures including externalities, public goods, monopolies, and oligopolies. It provides examples like pollution, national defense, and industries with few competitors.
2) Key causes of market failure are explored such as free riders for public goods and the tragedy of the commons when no one owns a resource.
3) Students engage in debates and case studies on topics like funding for space exploration and stem cell research, as well as developing antitrust plans for companies like Microsoft and Comcast.
際際滷s I created for Pitch Deck seminar I gave at Samurai Startup Island in Tokyo, October 7, 2015, to help entrepreneurs craft a presentation to tell the story of their startup clearly and persuasively.
Discussion about how to utilize various crowdsourcing tools and resources as an affiliate marketer and merchant to improve conversions and improve revenue.
Experience level: Intermediate
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Marketing
Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder, 99designs, Flippa & SitePoint (Twitter @sitepointmatt)
ZapMeals is an online meal ordering and delivery service that connects local food preparers with hungry consumers. It aims to solve the problems of finding good fast food options and long wait times for delivery that both preparers and consumers currently face. ZapMeals uses a proprietary algorithm to optimize ordering, preparation times, and delivery routes to provide the fastest delivery. It plans to generate revenue from transaction fees from both preparers and consumers, as well as advertising and supplies. The founders believe the $100 billion online food delivery market is primed for disruption and that ZapMeals' focus on speed and optimization gives it an unfair advantage over competitors.
Startup DNA: the formula behind successful startups in Silicon Valley (update...Yevgeniy Brikman
油
[Updated May 5, 2017] "Successful startups are all alike; every unsuccessful startup is unsuccessful in its own way." These are my personal observations on a few traits that make startups successful. You can find a video of the talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D9oXCK2lM and the book at http://www.hello-startup.net/.
The document provides an overview of a lesson on supply and demand that includes:
1) An agenda covering an introduction to supply and demand and factors that influence them such as price, income, tastes, and substitutes.
2) Notes on key concepts related to demand including the law of demand, demand curves, individual vs market demand, and how demand can change with price, income, tastes, expectations, substitutes, and complements.
3) Instructions for students to participate in a marketplace simulation, reflect on their profits, and consider how marketing could be improved to better meet consumer demand.
The document proposes hosting "The Code Show", a lecture and contest series to strengthen the Los Angeles startup community. It would bring together existing startup groups, identify gaps, and encourage new clubs. A proposed business model involves running educational lectures and a contest using a card game. Sponsorships would fund prizes and community events to raise the profile of sponsors and connect startups to resources and funding. The goal is to establish LA as a major startup destination through community building.
Startup & Marketing #4 : how to start a startupJean Michel
油
The document provides guidance on how to start a successful startup by focusing on customer discovery and validation. It discusses that the top reasons startups fail include building something people don't want and poor execution. The key is to test ideas quickly through minimum viable products and customer interviews to identify product-market fit before running out of resources. The Lean Startup methodology advocates building, measuring and learning through iterative customer feedback.
The document provides an overview of software pricing strategies. It begins with an anecdote about how Hewlett and Packard arbitrarily chose their first product's price, highlighting the challenges of pricing. It then uses a simple example to introduce economic concepts for understanding pricing, including representing demand curves graphically and calculating revenue. The document aims to help product managers and entrepreneurs understand pricing through both economic and psychological lenses.
Don't Just Roll the Dice: A Usefully Short Guide To Software Pricing
Written by Neil Davidson (Founder, Redgate Software & Business of Software Conference)
1) The document provides instructions for writing a journal entry separating today from yesterday, including writing the date, topic, and an opener response with opinions, questions, or a summary.
2) It also lists focusing and awareness practices like breathing exercises and noticing one's surroundings.
3) The instructions conclude with choosing one thing from a reflection to share with a partner and signing each other's journals to verify the sharing.
The document discusses different levels of government in California including federal, state, and local governments. It provides information on the structure of state government such as the legislature, governor, and state constitution. It also discusses local governments like Santa Clara County and the cities and school districts within it. Key points covered include the roles and responsibilities of different governing bodies, election terms, and contact information for local representatives.
The document provides background information on Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and the roots of 9/11. It discusses key topics such as:
1) The geopolitical history of Afghanistan and its role as a buffer state between Russia and British India.
2) The Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1970s-80s and the rise of anti-Soviet mujahideen fighters and Taliban factions.
3) Saudi Arabia's relationship with the US and its role as a major oil producer, as well as the wealthy Bin Laden family and Osama Bin Laden's opposition to the Saudi monarchy.
4) The immediate and long-term causes of the 9/11 attacks, including Bin Laden's funding
The document provides an overview of the legislative process in Congress and discusses lobbying. It defines key terms like earmarks, riders, and pork barrel spending. It also outlines the steps a bill takes through committees and floors votes in both the House and Senate. Special interest groups are introduced as organizations that lobby Congress by donating money, endorse candidates, and monitor politicians' performance on issues. The document contains notes, journal prompts, and a review of the legislative process and lobbying techniques.
The document discusses various topics related to taxes including different types of taxes, debates around changing tax rates, and statistics about income levels in the US. It provides background information, outlines opposing viewpoints on several tax issues, and includes prompts for journal entries analyzing the debates.
The document discusses the congressional simulation process. It provides information about roles in Congress, the congressional committee process, and education policy topics. Students will simulate the legislative process by writing bills, participating in committee hearings and floor debates, and voting on education reform legislation over multiple class periods. Background information is given on congressional powers, the education system in the US, and different education reform proposals to help students prepare for their roles.
The document provides an overview of the US Congress and how it works:
1) Congress is made up of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Bills must pass both chambers to become law. Most of the legislators' time is spent in committees that review bills and conduct oversight.
2) Powerful committees like Appropriations and Rules in the House and Judiciary in the Senate influence the legislative agenda. Committee chairs control the schedule and hearings.
3) The document reviews the lawmaking process, including the roles of committees, floor votes, conferences to resolve differences, and the president signing or vetoing the bill. It also discusses representation in Congress.
The document discusses various topics related to taxes including different types of taxes, debates around changing tax rates, and statistics about income levels in the US. It provides background information on corporate income tax, personal income tax, sales tax, payroll taxes, estate tax, and proposes debates on increasing or decreasing certain tax rates. Tables show average tax rates in the US and Denmark and income levels for different percentiles in the US. The document is a collection of notes and proposed discussion topics on taxes.
1) The document provides notes on the US general election process and electoral college system. It explains that primary winners from each party fight in the general election in November, where people vote for president and those votes determine the electoral college votes for each state.
2) It then describes the electoral college process, where each state's number of electors equals its Senate seats plus House seats. The candidate needs 270+ electoral votes to win. Most states use a "winner-take-all" system where the candidate winning the most votes in that state gets all of its electoral college votes.
3) The document also includes charts showing electoral college numbers and strategies for campaigning in swing states versus loyal states in close elections.
1) The document provides an overview of Cold War-era Asia, covering topics like the Chinese Civil War, the division of Korea, and the rise of communist China under Mao Zedong. 2) It discusses key events like the Korean War, China joining the UN, and the economic reforms in China under Deng Xiaoping. 3) The document is a collection of notes, discussion prompts, and summaries aimed at helping students understand the major political and economic developments in Asia during the Cold War period.
1) The document provides an overview of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945-1991, including key events that increased tensions like the Berlin Blockade and formation of opposing military alliances like NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
2) It discusses major policies and incidents that split Europe into Western and Eastern spheres like the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and Winston Churchill's 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech dividing post-WWII Europe.
3) The nuclear arms race and doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD) maintained an uneasy peace through the threat of massive retaliation if either side initiated a nuclear attack.
1) The document provides notes on key Soviet leaders after Stalin and events of the Cold War era, including Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2) It discusses Soviet leaders who came to power after Stalin's death in 1953 such as Khrushchev and Brezhnev, and events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and invasion of Afghanistan.
3) Students are reminded to prepare for an upcoming test on Soviet leaders and the Cold War by reviewing their notes, and instructions are given on properly filling out the test and scantron forms.
1) The document outlines notes from a lesson on the Cold War, providing background information on the start of the Cold War following World War II and the emergence of tensions between the US and Soviet allied nations.
2) It describes key events that increased Cold War tensions such as the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, NATO and Warsaw Pact formation, nuclear arms race, and space race.
3) The document also includes discussion questions for students to debate perspectives on issues like USSR expansion, proxy wars, and nuclear deterrence between the US and USSR.
The document provides an overview of the Federal Reserve system and its tools for managing the money supply and economy. It discusses how the Federal Reserve uses three main tools - changing reserve requirements, adjusting the discount rate, and conducting open market operations through buying and selling government bonds - to either increase or decrease the money supply. When the money supply increases, it aims to lower interest rates to stimulate the economy during a recession by fighting unemployment. When the money supply decreases, it aims to raise interest rates to slow down the economy and fight inflation. The document also explains how the money multiplier effect works through the banking system to magnify the impact of the Federal Reserve's actions on the overall money supply.
The document provides an overview of the Federal Reserve and its role in controlling the US money supply and interest rates. It discusses the Federal Reserve's goals of maintaining price stability and maximum employment. It also describes the three main tools used by the Federal Reserve to influence the money supply and interest rates: open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements.
1) The document discusses different types of civil cases including tort cases involving personal injury, contract cases involving violations of agreements, and class action lawsuits where multiple people harmed sue together.
2) It provides examples of tort and contract cases that could be used in mini mock trials, including a hot coffee spill case and a case about Pepsi points redemption.
3) The document also notes debates around tort reform and reasons for high numbers of lawsuits, such as contingent fees that allow lawyers to be paid a percentage of winnings.
The document discusses various topics related to housing loans and the housing crisis. It provides information on credit scores, different types of loans including credit cards, student loans, business loans, and home loans. It also discusses factors that contributed to the housing bubble such as rising home prices, subprime loans, securitization of mortgages, and the role of government agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The document provides an agenda and notes for an economics class on investing in stocks, mutual funds, and other financial instruments. It includes stock market terminology and concepts, examples of calculating stock metrics like market capitalization and price-earnings ratio, and recommendations to diversify investments across different industries and asset classes. Students are assigned roles to research companies and present an investment plan allocating $70,000 across stocks and mutual funds.
1. DRAW A LINE SEPARATING TODAY & YESTERDAY 1) Write: Date: 03/25/11 , Topic: Entrepreneurship 2) Next line, write Opener #40 and then: 1) Write 1 high + 1 low in last 24 hours 2) Rate your understanding of yesterday: lost < 1-5 > too easy (3 is perfect) 3) Respond to the Opening Clip by writing at least 1 sentences about : Your opinions/thoughts OR/AND Questions sparked by the clip OR/AND Summary of the clip OR/AND Announcements: None
2. Agenda 1) Intro to Starting Biz (non-restaurant) End Goal, you will be able to 1) Understand why entrepreneurs matter. Reminder 1) Complete your podcast worksheet
3. Adsense 1,000 page views per day . At a 1.0% click-through rate and $0.15 pay-off per click to you, in a 30-day month you can expect to make: Monthly income: 1,000 x 30 x 0.01(1%) x $0.15 =$45 1,000,000 page views per day . At a 1.0% click-through rate and $0.15 pay-off per click to you, in a 30-day month you can expect to make: Monthly income: 1,000,000 x 30 x 0.01(1%) x $0.15 =$45,000
4. Journ #39a , Title SWOT 1 Strength: Current Strengths Weakness: Current Weaknesses Opportunity: Areas to Expand Threats: Competitors With a partner: 1s, 1w, 1o, 1t) SWOT: whateverlife.com Include their name!
6. Work #39b , Title SWOT 2 Strength: Current Strengths Weakness: Current Weaknesses Opportunity: Areas to Expand Threats: Competitors With a partner: 1s, 1w, 1o, 1t) SWOT: Raptr.com
8. Only 1/5 th of Americans are self employed , but they account for more than 2/3rds of all American millionaires .
9. + 650,000 new businesses each year - 30% left after five years Over the lifetime of a business, 40% are profitable, 30% break even, and 30% lose money
10. Small businesses produce 43% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product, all things produced in the USA) Small businesses provide 44.4% of the total U.S. private jobs
11. Entrepreneurs have been responsible for 67% of the inventions and 95% of the radical innovations made since WW II
12. Women currently own approximately 9.1 million small businesses in the U.S. and are starting them at twice the rate of their male counterparts.
13. Notes #39a , Title: Entrepreneur Notes 1) Entrepreneur: Starts a business 2) Venture: New business a) Capital: Money ( Venture Capital ) 3) Equity: Ownership (things you own) 4) Business Model : How you make money a) Profit Margin: Price - Cost (often in %) Example: Cost: $100, Price: $150=PM: 33% 5) Market Target: Your Likely Customer a) Market Size: # of Likely Cust. b) Market Growth: Increase in Likely Cust.
14. Notes #39a , Title: Entrepreneurship 6) Winning Business Idea THIS IS NOT ABOUT INVENTING. Its about doing something better than others. Improve (or invent), what ever will increase customer utility . Provide a product or service so superior, that customers will switch to you! You dont need to be the first in a market, just the best. BUT DO NOT TRICK THE CUSTOMER!
25. Journ #40a , Title SWOT 3 Strength: Current Strengths Weakness: Current Weaknesses Opportunity: Areas to Expand Threats: Competitors As a Team: 1s, 1w, 1o, 1t) SWOT Dropbox.com 2) Come up with a better business concept ( killer idea ) for startup Tiger Storage to kill Dropbox, kill kill kill kill kill kill! STEAL AND MAKE BETTER!
26. Journ #40a , Title SWOT 3 Strength: Current Strengths Weakness: Current Weaknesses Opportunity: Areas to Expand Threats: Competitors As a Team: 1s, 1w, 1o, 1t) SWOT Etsy.com 2) Come up with a better business concept ( killer idea ) for startup Tiger Crafts to kill Etsy, kill kill kill kill kill kill! STEAL AND MAKE BETTER!
27. Journ #40c , Title Business Model As a team, solve this: 99% of electronic music is China is pirated. Develop a business model that will make selling music in China profitable ( Prize: $100 ). 1) Write down the business model Assign person to give the elevator pitch.
28. Notes #40a , Title: Entrepreneurship Provide a product or service so superior, that customers will switch to you! You dont need to be the first in a market, just the best. BUT DO NOT TRICK THE CUSTOMER! 1) Intellectual Property: a) Trademark : Brand ID (long as in biz) b) Copyright : Unique words, imgs, sounds (120 years) c) Patent : Unique process is protected+public (17 years) d) Trade Secrets : Biz secret way of doing things (gives you right to sue if stolen)
29. Mature Market Successful and stable companies already exist. Start ups have the additional challenge of taking on pre-existing competitors, but for winners, the profits are proven . (Jetblue, Virgin America) Growing Market None or not many companies providing it, so the start up goal is to establish themselves. Easiest environment for start ups, but profits unproven . (Online Video on Demand: Veoh, Lulu)
30. Review Business Model : How you make money NBC TV: Comcast Cable: Google: Facebook: PayPal: Chase: Virgin Am Airlines: Ford: Best Buy: Costco: Pandora: Sarah Lee: KwickCart (Free Bike Taxi): NBA Team:
31. Review Business Model : How you make money NBC TV: Ad Revenue + Selling Shows (Syndic, DVD) Comcast Cable: Ad Revenue + Fee Based Google: Ad Revenue Facebook: Ad Revenue PayPal: Transaction Fee Chase: Interest on Loans, Buying Bonds, Cust. Fees Virgin Am Airlines: Airfare + Extra Add-on Services Ford: Car Sales Best Buy: Product Sales + Ext Warranties Costco: Product Sales + Membership Fee Pandora: Ad Revenue + Fee Based Sarah Lee: Selling Branding Rights to Food Makers KwickCart (Free Bike Taxi): Sale of Ads on Pedicarts NBA Team: Tickets + Licensing Brand
32. Journ #40b , Title Market Targets With a partner ( include their name ): 1) Name a mature market that is open to fresh competition. 2) Name a new market that is not yet dominated by any significant companies, so its anyones game.
33. Notes #39b , Title: Entrepreneurship 2) Who Will Give You Money? a) Private : You, family, friends (InNOut) b) Loan : Bank loan ( Small Business Administration backs your loan ) c) Partnerships : Person gives you money, in return you contractually give them partial ownership ( general part. vs limited liability part.-LLP ) i) Angel Investors : Rich ppl ii) Venture Capital Firms : Biz who invest $ in biz c) Stocks-Initial Public Offering-IPO : Sell ownership of your biz for $ (Google) i) Private Shares : Biz can sell shares in a limited 500 ppl (Facebok)
34. Notes #39b , Title: Entrepreneurship ii) Stock Ownership : Who/group that has most controls (stocks can split, 1 shares can become 100 shares, you can lost control if your own shares dont split)
35. Journ #40c , Title Video: How I Made My Millions 1) Copy Source Title: CNBC 2) Discuss questions on the board with a partner. Summarize your discussion ( include their name at the end ). Remember participation points are deducted if off task. 5 Reading/Film Qs Come From These Work Sections Time Bookmark: 00:00
36. Journ # , Title Do It Better As a Team: 1) With your team, identify 1 business that isnt doing as good as it could. Explain how the business could be done better. Example: Jack in Box could offer whole wheat buns or other healthy options. Its about doing something better than other people. Improve or invent, what ever will increase a customers utility.
37. Journ # , Title Do It Better 2 As a Team: 1) List of possible businesses to finalize on Monday (BE INNOVATIVE! ANY BIZ BUT YOU WILL BE WORKING ON IT FOR WEEKS SO CHOOSE WISELY!). Its about doing something better than other people. Improve or invent, what ever will increase a customers utility.
38. Notes # , Title: Entrepreneurship 3) Elevator Pitch In under 90sec, covers: 1- whats the problem and solution 2- how do you make money 3- who is the market and how much is the market worth 4- what is your advantage 5- how much will you (and they) make (% of market captured) 6- what are you asking ($ needed)
39. Journ # , Title A 1) Copy Source Title: A 2) Discuss questions on the board with a partner. Summarize your discussion ( include their name at the end ). Remember participation points are deducted if off task. 5 Reading/Film Qs Come From These Work Sections
40. Your Prompt (10 Points): A 2+EC for those who volunteer to read theirs at the end (Ill pick a few at random as well).
41. Homework: 1) Complete your podcast worksheet Workbook Check: If your name is called, drop off your workbook with Mr. Chiang ( if requested, points lost if your workbook is not turned in )