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Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship … the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. — Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Introduction1
GCFLearnFree.org (YouTube Channel)
GCFGlobal (Official Website)
Dictionary
entrepreneurship : the activity of organizing, managing, and assuming the risks of a business enterprise — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which typically begins as a small business, such as a startup company, offering a product, process or service for sale or hire, and the people who do so are called ‘entrepreneurs’. — Wikipedia
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Inspiration
What’s an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever (Eric Schurenberg, Inc.)
7 Things That Make Great Entrepreneurs Tick (Steve Tobak, Inc.)
The Need to Encourage Entrepreneurship (TED Talk, YouTube Playlist)
Talks about Entrepreneurship (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Entrepreneurship (Big Think)
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Foundation2
Process
Business plan is a written document containing the goals of a business, the methods for attaining those goals, and the time-frame for the achievement of the goals. It also describes the nature of the business, background information on the organization, the organization’s financial projections, and the strategies it intends to implement to achieve the stated targets. In its entirety, this document serves as a road-map (a plan) that provides direction to the business. — Wikipedia
Young Entrepreneurs Forum (Official Site)
Young Entrepreneurs Forum (YouTube Channel)
The Explainer Harvard Business Review (YouTube Channel)
Harvard Business Review (Official Site)
Harvard Business Review (Wikipedia)
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Innovation
Commerce
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Campaigns (Kickstarter)
Product
Entrepreneur Items (Etsy)
Entrepreneur Gifts (Zazzle)
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Preservation
History
What is the History of Entrepreneurship? (Global Entrepreneurship Institute)
Library
DDC: 338.04 Entrepreneurship (Library Thing)
Subject: Entrepreneurship (Library Thing)
Subject: Entrepreneurship (Open Library)
LCC: HB 615 Entrepreneurship (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: HB 615 Entrepreneurship (Library of Congress)
Subject: Entrepreneurship (Library of Congress)
Subject: Entrepreneurship (WorldCat)
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Participation
Global Entrepreneurship Week (US Department of State)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (Wikipedia)
Education
Who Even Is An Entrepreneur? (Crash Course Business, YouTube Video)
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Course
Business Entrepreneurship (Crash Course Youtube Playlist)
Entrepreneurship (Crash Course, Web Site)
New Enterprises (MIT OpenCourseware)
Community
Occupation
Want to start your own business? (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Entrepreneurship Competency Model (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Organization
Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (American Society for Engineering Education)
Global Entrepreneurship Network
News
Entrepreneur
Startup (Inc.)
Entrepreneurs (Forbes)
Entrepreneurship (JSTOR)
Entrepreneurship (NPR Archives)
Event
Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, June 27 (United Nations)
Government
Entrepreneurship (U.S. Department of Commerce)
US Small Business Administration
Small Business (USA.gov)
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Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.
Innovation Mathematics
Science Research, Discovery
Technology Invention, Intellectual Property
Commerce Entrepreneurship, Product
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1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.
2. The content on this page was gathered through extensive self-instruction and then used in multiple forays into entrepreneurship starting with a successful computer buisness named Studio-E in Harvard Square and then continuing through an initiative called Knowledge Foundry and the currently evolving Digital Den.
