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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 and growing a business

Advanced Entrepreneurship is packed with invaluable insights, such as successful entrepreneurs, case studies, and practical exercises to turn creative ideas into thriving businesses. Advanced Entrepreneurship has been designed to clearly instruct students on the process of formulating, planning, and implementing a new business venture.

  • Authentic case studies: Profiles of entrepreneurs and numerous examples bring key learning objectives to life for students.
  • Genuine skill-building: Students learn how to develop persuasive business plans, secure funding, build teams, and harness the power of digital marketing.
  • Active learning: Chapter-ending research tasks and class discussion questions challenge students and reinforce the learning. 
  • Empowering digital: An adaptive Smartbook, assessments, and simulations power student learning, while bonus resources support career exploration and durable skills. Teacher resources streamline lesson 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