eWeb: Entrepreneurship Education Resources by Jerome Katz
Here are some of the forms we use in our entrepreneurship classes.
This is a spreadsheet I developed from US Government statistics and occupational sites. It reports the numbers and percentages of self-employed people (the government's term for entrepreneurs) for the top 150 occupations - by numbers and percentages. For each occupation there are links to its page in the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the O*Net Database both of which give detailed rundowns of the specifics of the job, and what's needed for success.
SLU's Career Center created a workbook to help you think about careers where you are an entrepreneur, and what it might be like and how you might fit and where you might want to spend effort preparing yourself. A good companion are the occupational pages for the job you hope to have (identified in Question 17 above).
This is called your "magic number" and it is what you would hope to make from your business. This spreadsheet lets you figure out what your magic number is. It is Skill Module 7.1 from Entrepreneurial Small Business.
A key term to know is the formal name of the industry you (or your student) is planning to go into. This exercise (from Entrepreneurial Small Business Skill Module 7-2) helps you nail down the exact term, and armed with that helps you run down key statistics on that industry.
A lot of people come up with an idea for a new product, but few do a good job of looking to see if the product is already available. Leveraging comprehensive sites like Google, Amazon and Alibaba, it is possible to quickly learn the name of the "new" product, and where it is available, and at what cost. This moves the entrepreneur from product manufacturing (which is expensive & time consuming) to retailing (which is faster and cheaper).
3 characteristics (market, tecnical, business) with simplified categorical answers gives fast results. From Entrepreneurial Small Business Skill Module 4-2
From Entrepreneurial Small Business Skill Module 4-2
Social Venture/Nonprofit
Feasibility Study Template
(from Entrepreneurial Small Business)
Social Venture/Nonprofit
Business Plan Template
(from Entrepreneurial Small Business)
For-Profit
Feasibility Study Template
(from Entrepreneurial Small Business)
For-Profit
Business Plan Template
(from Entrepreneurial Small Business)
Intellectual Property Checklist
Thoughts on Making Apps