The Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow Are in Our Schools Today!

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The Entrepreneurs of TomorrowAre in Our Schools
Today!
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The Changing Economy

• According to the SBA there were 27.2 million
  businesses in the US
• The number of nonemployer firms has risen
  steadily in this decade, from 16.5 million in
  2000 to an estimated 21.1 million in 2007.
• An estimated 637,100 new employer firms began
  operations in 2007 and 560,300 firms closed that
  year. Only 5 of closures were bankruptcy.
• In the most recent year with data (2005),
  employer firms with fewer than 500 employees
  created 979,102 net new jobs, or 78.9 percent of
  net new jobs.

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Education levels of Small Business owners
24 High School or less 28 Some college 24
Bachelors degree 19 Post graduate degree
(Associate Degrees are not shown in data) 2002
latest Small Business Census data available
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Entrepreneurship Education is a Lifelong
Learning Process
Entrepreneurs are not Born. They Become
through the Experiences of their
Lives! Professor Albert Shapero, The Ohio
State University
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMS bring Special
Opportunities for American Youth

• Orientation to change and opportunities
  everywhere
• Student motivation based on opportunity to use
  personal skills and talents
• Understanding that success and wealth comes to
  those who create something that benefits others
• Belief that entrepreneurship experiences of any
  kind develop expertise over time
• Establish entrepreneurship curriculum that
  provide students with educational rigor,
• real world relevance, and
• connections to adult world
  relationships.

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THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM IS

• IDEA SHARING
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• NETWORKING
• NEW RESOURCES
• ADVICE FROM ENTREPRENEURS

• AWARDS
• NEW FRIENDS
• SUPPORT
  SYSTEMS

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.so I can bring back great ideas for our
community and share them with you.
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29th Annual Entrepreneurship Education FORUM