Entrepreneurship — Kauffman Foundation

Entrepreneurs are critical to the nation’s economic health. According to the Small Business Association, 99.7 percent of all employer firms are small businesses, and these companies employ nearly 50 percent of all private sector employees. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and USA TODAY have collaborated on lessons that encourage teens to pursue entrepreneurship. Each lesson is based on a USA TODAY article and includes discussion questions and activities.

Lesson Archive:

Project-Based Learning Activity

Who’s An Entrepreneur? Diversity in the Workplace

• Being a teen is hard work for this entrepreneur
• He’s donating $100 million to a university
• Private sector enticing public into final frontier
• The new entrepreneurs: Americans over 50
• More moms, fewer pops

Raising a New Generation of Entrepreneurs

• More college students get start-up schooling
• Absolutely, positively a force in China
• Entrepreneurs are born, but can they be taught?

Achieving Success

• Can Mansueto turn publishing bust into a boom?
• The guy behind Kinko’s
• JetBlue soars on CEO’s creativity
• Nextel’s Morgan O’Brien kept the faith
  

Business Strategies and Philosophies

• Efficiency can solve a host of problems
• Female bosses less likely to cut health benefits
• Entrepreneurs should keep business simple
• Raising the bar on how business gets done
• Saucony CEO puts his foot down on loyalty

New Business Ideas from Entrepreneurs

• Flickr of idea on a gaming project led to photo website
• TV on cellphones? Funny but profitable
• Dot-com gives small investors a leg up

To Profit or Not

• Private sector enticing public into final frontier
• Google foundation may invest in for-profit firms
• Brain drain signals trouble at technology companies
• Absolutely, positively a force in China