We're open for Business

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business?

Do you know what's involved? Where to start? What you need? how to get it? What can you do? What can't you do? How much money do you need? Are there grants? How about a loan? Once I've made my mind up... then what?

We're Open for Business is a resource based webpage that helps entrepreneurship students discover what's potentially involved in opening a business and, hopefully, successfully running it . Of course each business has different needs, but this website is a solid resource for students who are just getting the entrepreneurial bug and want to explore what their options might be and where to get started.

The website offers students a hands-on appraoch as they look at what's available.

It basically consists of a series of useful links to other sites with the information required.

On it students will find information on:

• Starting a Business


• A Business Plan


• A Small Business Webquest


• The Entrepreneur Test (are you an Entrepreneur?)


• Marketing Plan worksheet


• And many, many other useful things that will help them decide if they have what it takes, are on the right track or how to get them where they want to go.

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This website would be perfect for use in the Entrepreneurship 30 class.

In it students have to create and run a venture of their choosing for the semester. This website would give invaluable information on the necessities of starting and running a business. Not every element of the site would be needed for a student run business, but many links are useful.

The whole point of Entrepreneurship 30 is about teaching the students the different elements of running a business.

We're Open for Business would target many of the different modules required by the Evergreen curriculum.

Module 1 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Module 3 Entrepreneurial Skills
Module 4 Seeking Opportunities
Module 5 Business and Co-operative Development
Module 8 Market Research
Module 9 Initiating a Venture
Module 11Forms of Business Ownership
Module 12 Laws and Regulations
Module 13 Planning a Venture
Module 14 Financing a Venture
Module 15 Evaluating a Venture

With all that in mind the students would decide on a venture (or ventures) as a class that they would do together. From there the class would be responsible for everything from product design, production, sales, market research, finance and so on. We're Open for Business would assist the students in many aspects of the class.