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JA Be Entrepreneurial

By developing the essential components of a business plan, JA Be Entrepreneurial challenges students to start an entrepreneurial venture while still in high school.

SESSIONS LEARNING OJECTIVES

Session One: Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Students are introduced to the elements of successful business start-ups, myths and facts about entrepreneurship, and early product development.

  • Recognize the elements of a successful business start-up.
  • Evaluate myths and facts about entrepreneurship.
  • Consider product-development options.

Session Two: What’s My Business?

Students continue to develop their product or service idea by analyzing various sources of successful entrepreneurial ventures, culminating in their selection of a product or service as the basis of their business plan.

  • Recognize the importance of carefully selecting their product or service before starting their business.
  • Apply their passions, talents, and skills to a market-needs assessment to determine the basis of their business plan.

Session Three: Who’s My Customer?

Students examine how market needs and demographics contribute to successful entrepreneurial ventures.

  • Recognize the importance of analyzing their market.
  • Apply a needs assessment to the market available to a specific product.

Session Four: What’s My Advantage?

Students learn the importance of intentionally selecting and applying competitive advantages to an entrepreneurial venture.

 

  • Define competitive advantages and recognize them in other businesses.
  • Demonstrate the importance of selecting competitive advantages that give their product and market an edge on the competition.

Session Five: Competitive Advantages

Students apply competitive advantages to entrepreneurial ventures.

 

  • Evaluate short- and long-term consequences in making ethical decisions.
  • Express that being ethical can be good for business.

Session Six: Ethics Are Good For Business

Students learn to anticipate ethical dilemmas and consider consequences in making ethical business decisions.

 

  • Evaluate short- and long-term consequences in making ethical decisions.
  • Express that being ethical can be good for business.

Session Seven: The Business Plan

Students apply the six elements of successful start-ups for their products and services.

 

  • Compile entrepreneurial elements into a sample business plan.

 
 
CONCEPTS
Advertisement, Business plan, Competitive advantages, Customer, Demographic, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurial spirit, Ethical dilemma, Ethics, Financing, Franchise, Long- vs. short-term consequences, Management, Market, Market needs, Marketing, Nonprofit business, Product, Product development, Profit, Social entrepreneur, Social responsibility, Stakeholder, Voting
 
SKILLS
Analyzing information, Business planning, Categorizing data, Decision-making, Evaluating alternatives, Expressing multiple viewpoints, Graphic presentation, Oral and written communication, Presenting information, Reading for understanding, Weighing consequences, Working in groups, Working in pairs
 
Sample Business Plan
JA Volunteers, Teachers, and Students: Below is a link to the downloadable version of the Sample Business Plan from the JA Be Entrepreneurial program kit.
 
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