Entrepreneurship

This Nonprofit Uses a Shark Tank-Like Contest to Help Prisoners Become Entrepreneurs

Defy Ventures challenges convicted criminals to become CEO of their new life from behind bars.

				
Need a Business Idea? Here Are 55.To start one of these home-based businesses, you don't need a lot of funding -- just energy, passion and the drive to succeed.

				The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc.
			
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How College Students Iron The Wrinkles In The Cannabis IndustryCollege entrepreneurship programs are encouraging students to disrupt the cannabis industry; so the time is now to do so.

				Melissa Brock
			
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13 Must-Watch Movies for Aspiring EntrepreneursEntrepreneurship will make you cry and hope for a happy ending. Just like a good movie.

				Deep Patel
			
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Why Some Entrepreneurs Will Never Make It — But Here's How You CanIf you want it all, here's what it will take.

				The Oracles
			
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To start and build a business venture, new business owners will be at an advantage if they possesses strong entrepreneurship characteristics, such as creativity, risk-taking, goal-setting and leadership -- to name some examples.

Entrepreneurship can be associated with bold, independent creative acts in the business world that, if successful, culminate in value creation. Entrepreneurs often disrupt the status quo and take risks to create innovative new products and services.

Well-known business leaders who are regarded as possessing entrepreneurship characteristics include Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

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