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Entrepreneur

An individual who undertakes the creation, organization, and ownerhsip of an innovative business.

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Venture

A new business undertaking that involves risk.

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Entrepreneurship

The process of recognizing or creating an opportunity, testing it in the market, and gathering the resources to go into business.

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Free Enterprise System

Where people can choose what to buy, what to own, and to start a business.

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Profit

Money that is kept after all expenses of running a business have been deducted.

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Market Structure

The nature and degree of competition among businesses operating in the same industry.

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Monopoly

A market structure in which the product has only ONE seller who has control over the supply.

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Oligopoly

A market structure in which there are just a FEW competing firms.

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Goods

They are tangible products.

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Services

They are intangible products.

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Need

A basic requirement for survival.

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Wants

Something that you do not have to have for survival, but would like to have.

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Factors of Production

Land Labor Capital Entrepreneurship

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Scarcity

When demand EXCEEDS supply.

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Demand

The quantity of goods or services that CONSUMERS are willing and able to buy.

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Diminishing Marginal Utility

Price ALONE does NOT determine demand.

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Supply

The amount of a good or service that PRODUCERS are willing to provide.

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Equilibrium

The point at which consumers buy ALL of a product that is supplied.

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Gross Domestic Product

GDP - total market value of goods and services produced by a nation.

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Business Cycle

The periodic random pattern of expansion and contraction that the economy goes through. (Recession, Prosperity, Depression)

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Competition

Rivalry among businesses for consumer money.

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Opportunity

An idea that has commercial potential.

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Business Failure

A business that has stopped operating with a LOSS to its investors.

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Discontinuance

A business that was purposely discontinued by an owner who wanted to start a new one.

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Investment

Amount of money a person puts into their business.

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Capital

Includes the buildings, equipment, tools, and other goods.

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Role Model

A person whose attitudes and achievements they try to copy.

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Foundation Skills

Skills that entrepreneurs use regularly.

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Profile

A set of characteristics that identifies a type of person.

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Achiever

A person with a record of successes.

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Online Business

A business that conducts bueinsss by means of the Internet.

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Sustainability

A venture seeks to achieve economic, environmental, and social goals without compromising future generations.

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Outsourcing

Contracting with other companies for services.

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Social Entrepreneurs

Identify social needs and recognize them as opportunities. (giving to a charity)

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Strategic Alliance

Small company forms an alliance with a bigger company.

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Corporate Venture

A new venture started inside a large corporation.

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Innovation

Finding new ways to do things.

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Demographics

Personal characteristics that describe a population.

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Values

The beliefs and principles you choose to live by.

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Franchise

A legal agreement to begin a new business in the name of recognized company.

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Franchisee

The buyer of the franchise.

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Franchisor

The seller of the franchise.

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Business Broker

Someone whose job is to bring buyers and sellers together.

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Trade Show

Where vendors introduce new items.

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Global Economy

The interconnected economies of the nations of the world.

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Exporting

The selling and shipping of goods to another country.

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Importing

The bying or bringing IN goods from countries to sell.

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Trade Barrier

A restriction on goods entering or leaving a country.

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Tariff

A type of trade barrier. (taxes imposed by the government)

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Interpreter

Someone who translates a language.

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Trade Missions

Allow small business owners meet and talk with foreign agents.

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Disposable Income

Money people have to spend after paying for needed expenses.

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Trade Intermediary

An agency that serves as a distributor in a foreign country.

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