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Advanced Entrepreneurship © 2025

Grades: 9 - 12

Designed for advanced high school business students, Advanced Entrepreneurship takes students deep inside the planning, process, and decision making necessary to launch a new venture. Adapted from our higher ed course Entrepreneurship, this course is a great college-level program for the students in an advanced business CTE program.

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Gain insights on starting andgrowing a business

Advanced Entrepreneurshipis packed with invaluable insights, such as successful entrepreneurs, casestudies, and practical exercises to turn creative ideas into thrivingbusinesses. Advanced Entrepreneurship has been designed to clearlyinstruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing anew business venture.

●       Authentic case studies: Profiles ofentrepreneurs and numerous examples bring key learning objectives to life forstudents.

●       Genuine skill-building: Students learn how todevelop persuasive business plans, secure funding, build teams, and harness thepower of digital marketing.

●       Active learning: Chapter-ending research tasksand class discussion questions challenge students and reinforce the learning.

●       Empowering digital: An adaptive Smartbook,assessments, and simulations power student learning, while bonus resourcessupport career exploration and durable skills. Teacher resources streamlinelesson prep and strengthen instruction.

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PART 1 THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE 

1. The Entrepreneurial Mind-Set
2. Corporate Entrepreneurship
3. Generating and Exploiting New Entries

PART 2 FROM IDEA TO THE OPPORTUNITY 

4. Creativity and the Business Idea
5. Identifying and Analyzing Domestic and International Opportunities
6. Protecting the Idea and Other Legal Issues for the Entrepreneur

PART 3 FROM THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE BUSINESS PLAN

7. The Business Plan: Creating and Starting the Venture
8. The Marketing Plan
9. The Organizational Plan
10. The Financial Plan

PART 4 FROM THE BUSINESS PLAN TO FUNDING THE VENTURE

11. Sources of Capital
12. Informal Risk Capital, Venture Capital, and Going Public

PART 5 FROM FUNDING THE VENTURE TO LAUNCHING, GROWING, AND ENDING THE NEW VENTURE

13. Strategies for Growth and Managing the Implications of Growth
14. Accessing Resources for Growth from External Sources
15. Succession Planning and Strategies for Harvesting and Ending the Venture

PART 6 CASES