entrepreneurship

Provides children ideas and advice on starting their own business. Presents twenty businesses ranging from a lemonade stand to a consulting business. Introduces and explains the business skills kids need to be successful including making a budget, negotiating, marketing and advertising, and networking.

Provides the stories behind seven entrepreneurs who unintentionally created name brand products, including Julie Aigner-Clark of Baby Einstein, Gary Erickson of Clif Bar, and Roxanne Quimby of Burt's Bees.

Profiles African Americans who overcame obstacles and became successful through goals, determination, and hard work.

A guide to finding a job in the health care field that provides information on the various positions available in the field, including training, responsibilities, trends, and salary ranges, as well as tips for finding a job, writing a resume, interviewing, and moving ahead in the field.

Offers advice for small business owners, covering personal goals, inspirations, market research, location, legal forms, licensing, leasing, writing a business plan, buying a business or franchise, financing, loans, record keeping, insurance, taxes, pricing, advertising, and other related topics. Includes CD-ROM.

Answers questions about the five most popular jobs for young people, as well as about other ways they can make money, with advice on the planning and marketing involved.

Offers guidance and advice to start and operate an organization, and discusses ways to attract investor attention, rules for pitching, lies of venture capitalists, staffing-related issues, and other related topics.

Profiles girls who have successfully started and run businesses, such as making and selling cheesecakes, inventing and marketing a kiddie stool, making and selling watercolor paintings. Includes a section on how to be an entrepreneur, and historical information about women in business.

Discusses how young people can make money by starting their own business.