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5. What items are part of a firm’s operating costs?
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7. How can computer skills help with business operations?
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9. How is personal financial literacy related to business financial literacy?
10. What factors determine where to locate a business?
11. Why is branding important?
12. How does competition affect entrepreneurship?
13. What percent of American firms have no employees working for them? Why is this important?
14. What are some sources of funding to start a business?
15. What can an entrepreneur do if business sales drop off ?
16. What should an entrepreneur consider when hiring employees for the business?
17. How does an entrepreneur work in a country that doesn’t support capitalism?
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6 Critter Creations
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8 Four Legged Friends

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10 Baskets of Cash
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 Entre-
Green
By Hunter Dean

A s a child, I was very interested in the environment. Videos of polar bears floating away in the
ocean and men with chain saws decimating the rainforest were horrifying to me and left a lasting
impression. I learned that the world was changing because of humans and I wanted to help prevent
global warming. I was particularly fascinated by the problem of fossil fuels and their contribution to
global climate change. As I researched this problem, I learned about the alternative forms of energy
being developed. The concept of converting used vegetable oil to fuel was intriguing to me.

After a year or so of saving money and researching online, I purchased my own diesel truck and an
engine conversion kit to allow the truck to run off of vegetable oil. I visited local restaurants and
asked the owners if I could collect their used oil. Most owners were excited to be part of something
environmentally friendly. Since the oil is obtained from local restaurants, the oil is frequently filled
with food by-products which would clog the fuel lines. The processing of vegetable oil tends to be a
mess so I set up my operations outside. This allows for minimal spillage. After much trial and error,
I developed my own filtration system to clean my oil. Because fossil fuel prices were at an all time
high cost, many people in my community became aware of my business and became interested in
running their own diesel trucks off of the used vegetable oil. As a result of this demand, I decided to
create Beaufort Biofuels LLC. Beaufort Biofuels specializes in converting diesel engines to run off
of vegetable oil.

Beaufort Biofuels has taught me many things including work ethic and perseverance. Beaufort
Biofuels has allowed me to express my creativity and allow me to give back. I am particularly proud
that 15% of my income goes to charities to further help prevent global warming. Without hard
work and work ethic, success is almost impossible. When you work hard, success will eventually
come to you. You already have success if you do something you enjoy. If you do something for a
living that you dread, you may find financial success, but you will never find true success in your life.
Money should be a by-product of something you love to do, not vise versa.

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 Critter
Creations
By Marissa Cobuzio

M y name is Marissa Cobuzio and I’m an 8th grader at Walter T. Bergen School in
Bloomingdale, NJ. I recently participated in my second TREP$ Marketplace. My
journey started way back, almost 7 years ago! I’ve always had a deep passion for animals. At the
age of 6, I started donating money to my local animal shelter. I raised the money by running
lemonade stands, holding a carnival, selling cookies and juice at local soccer games, and saving
my allowance.
Ever since I was young, I’ve enjoyed thinking up business ideas, but I also knew I wanted
to volunteer my time to help animals. Two years ago, I was finally allowed to volunteer at
our shelter. Later, my TREP$ partner, Erica Steenstra, joined my mom and me in our weekly
volunteer shift. Ever since, Erica and I have been donating money and supplies as well as our
time. Our biggest donation of all, so far, was made possible by the profit we made through the
TREP$ program. Erica and I were able to make enough money to buy the shelter a brand-new,
large-capacity dryer. This is something they desperately needed.

I have participated in TREP$ twice. My first year I worked by myself running a business called
Sweet Dreams. I made and sold tie-dyed pillow cases. On some of them I sewed on fabric
shapes to make them stand out. That was a huge success and I still have people asking me if I’ll
be making more! That year, I donated half of my profit to the shelter. This past year, Erica and
I worked together to create and make stylish bandanas, beds, and yummy treats for pets. We
called our business Critter Creations. I was really motivated to make this TREP$ Marketplace
an especially successful one because, as I said before, we intended to use our profit to buy the
shelter a brand-new dryer. We succeeded!

Our bandanas were all different sizes and patterns and were made with a Velcro closure. We
picked out the fabric, cut the patterns, and sewed them ourselves (with Mom’s supervision). We
even added little hand-made fabric designs to make them different from an average pet bandana.
We only had a couple left over and we gave them to the shelter, where they were used to enhance
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the dogs’ photos used on the shelter’s website. The beds were
made with fabric and fluff and were a big hit. We were sold out
of those by the end of the night. As for the treats, they were also
homemade from recipes that we researched and found on the
internet. The treats were tested for tastiness by Tiger (my dog),
KC (my cat), and Zoe (Erica’s dog). In addition to the animal
products, Erica and I also sold handmade wooden bubble gum
machines which we assembled ourselves. We felt that it was a
good business idea to have something for those who don’t own
a pet.

TREP$ is more than just an after school activity. I really learned

a lot from the workshops and the Marketplace experience. We
learned how to come up with a good product, figure out who
would buy the product, determine fair but profitable pricing,
develop good advertising, and keep track of money and loans.
This experience also helped me learn how to approach customers,
how to work with other people, and how to have things done by
a deadline, etc. I’m not going to lie, my partner and I had our fair
share of disagreements; however, this definitely taught me how to make reasonable compromises.
We both worked through our differences and this, without a doubt, taught me a life-long skill.

I definitely enjoyed this experience very much, and constantly raved about it to my friends. Several
of them mentioned the program at their school and they now have TREP$ too. It truly gave me
a feel for the business world; everyone should have a chance to participate in this outstanding
program.

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 Four
Legged
Friends
By Sarah Lapcevic

I am Sarah Lapcevic, a student of the Entrepreneurship Academy at Buchholz High School. I

was born and currently live in Gainesville, Florida and I have been pet sitting since June of
2010. As a pet sitter I provide a home environment and exercise program to pets while their
owners are away on vacation.

My business all began when my older sister was babysitting and I wanted to babysit too, but could
not because I was too young. That’s when my mom told me to try to make use of my love for
animals. The summer of 2010 I handed out my business card to people I knew and explained to
them how my business was different from the normal kennel. Some of those reasons being that I
would provide personal care to their pets at a reduced rate, along with meeting their pets physical
and interactive needs.

Some other aspects that differed from the kennels are that the pet’s walks are not scheduled, and
instead are done more frequently. Also, rather than the pets being confined in a cage all day, I
allow them to roam freely in the house. I like to spoil the pets by having them feel like they’re on
vacation too. Some of the things I do to make them feel this way are playing games like fetch with
them a lot, brushing them often, and allowing them to sleep with me.

Some unique aspects of my service are that I use Facebook and texting to update the pet’s owners
on how they are doing. I also am very accommodating to my clients in many ways, one being I
have no certain hours. For instance, the dog I last pet sat for was dropped off at seven-thirty on a
Sunday morning.

One of my most important secrets of success is loving what I do because for me when I am pet
sitting it does not feel like work, but more of a hobby that brings me joy and laughter. My other
secrets of success are having a unique approach that other businesses do not offer and being
flexible.

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 Baskets
of Cash
By Brianne Feldpausch

I have always had a very competitive attitude and when given the opportunity to prove
myself, I will take it. I am this type of aggressive person due to my background and
unique life experiences. Growing up on a family dairy farm in the small town of Fowler, MI
and starting a business using what I learned working on the farm have influenced me in a
variety of ways, shaping me to become the woman I am today.

I have performed seasonal jobs on my family’s farm with my four brothers since I was about
six years old. This includes the few weeks in the springtime when we tap maple trees for sap,
collect it daily and boil it down to syrup that we can sell. During the summer, I feed calves
each morning, pick up rocks in different fields with a crew of ten other teenagers, mow the
many acres of our farm lawns, bail straw and perform whatever other tasks that need to be
done. We also grow sweet corn in the summer and sell it for our college funds. For the past
ten years, I have also chosen a prospect beef to train and then show at our local 4-H fair and
sell at the end of the week. Come fall, we pick a couple thousand pumpkins and sell them
in our front yard. Through these work experiences on our farm, I have developed a strong
work ethic, discipline and endurance. I have also learned how to manage, own and run a
successful business. This was the most important thing I learned because I used it to start
my own business.

Baskets by Brianne (BBB) is a basketry business that I have created and run for the past five
years. I learned how to weave baskets through 4-H and I now sell hand-crafted, custom-
made baskets, patterns and kits and teach basketry lessons. My baskets can be woven in any
design the customer desires and I currently sell patterns at eight different basketry supplier
locations in six different states. I also sell patterns at the stores’ websites. Classes can be
arranged in different locations for the convenience of the client.

In addition to contributing to my college fund, this business has helped me become more
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financially independent and taught me mature communication skills through marketing my
business. At the beginning of BBB, money was borrowed from family for start up expenses,
but it is now paid off. I now purchase my own supplies and manage all sales. Running BBB
has helped me manage money better and look for the best ways to spend it. I intend to
operate BBB throughout college as a flourishing business that continues to survive off of its
own cash flow.

In conclusion, growing up and working on my family’s dairy farm and operating my own
business have shaped me into the individual I am now. Endurance, a strong work ethic,
communication skills and financial independence are just a few of the many skills and traits
that I have learned through my unique experiences and will use to be successful in college
and in life.

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 Bring Lemonade Day to your city!

Build a Stand... SPARK A DREAM!

Free, Fun, Experiential Learning

This year 100,000 kids across the nation will start their own lemonade stand business
on May 2. By 2013, Lemonade Day will reach 1 million young entrepreneurs in 100
cities. We want to bring this community-wide event for kids to YOUR city!

or business schools, foundations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, youth sports

Great project for
ol programs!
and after-school

Let’s talk!
Contact Executive Director
Julie Eberly at 713.626.KIDS or
jeberly@prepared4life.org.
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What is Lemonade Day?
Lemonade Day is a FREE, community-wide, educational initiative
designed to teach children how to start, own and operate their own
business – a lemonade stand.
How did Lemonade Day get started?
Michael Holthouse, a Houston entrepreneur and philanthropist,
co-founded Prepared 4 Life (P4L), a nonprofit that provides fun,
proactive programs infused with life skills, character education
and entrepreneurship. Inspired by the lessons he was able
to teach his young daughter and her friend when they set up a
lemonade stand, Holthouse launched Lemonade Day in Houston,
Texas in 2007. It has now become P4L’s number one outreach and
educational priority.
When is Lemonade Day?
Lemonade Day takes place the first Sunday in May. It will be on
May 2 in 2010.
Who can participate?
Youth of all ages, from pre-K through high school, can register for
an official Lemonade Day stand. Adults are needed to participate
as mentors and volunteers. In addition, community support
from schools, churches, businesses, and youth organizations is
essential to the success of Lemonade Day.
How does it work?
Each child that registers for Lemonade Day receives a bright,
yellow backpack with an informational workbook for the child
and another for a responsible adult. The workbooks outline the
steps needed to start a business, from setting a goal, creating
a business plan, forming a budget and finding an investor to
saving money and donating a portion back to their community.
(Materials are available in Spanish.)
Lemonade Day is the perfect opportunity for the entire community
to come together and train the next generation of entrepreneurs.
How does a child register?
Beginning in the spring, a child can register by completing a
printed application available through participating partners, such
as schools or youth organizations. Youth can register online at
www.LemonadeDay.org. They can also sign up and receive a
backpack at numerous events in the spring in each city.
What do children learn?
The objective of Lemonade Day is to teach youth how to start
and run their own lemonade business. Children learn the
entrepreneurial skills necessary to be successful in the future and
become contributing members of their communities. The best part
of the program for kids is that after covering their expenses and
paying back their investors, they can keep what they earn. With
this in mind, children are encouraged to open a youth savings
account so their profits can continue to grow as well as give a
portion of their earnings to charity.
Who can get involved and how?
Anyone and everyone can be involved in Lemonade Day.
Young entrepreneurs with lemonade stands need mentors,
investors, employees and customers! Sponsors and volunteers
are also needed to make Lemonade Day a success. All money
raised through local donations and sponsorships is used directly
to support Lemonade Day in your city. To get involved, please visit
your local Lemonade Day website at www.LemonadeDay.org.
How can I bring Lemonade Day to
my community?
To learn how to bring Lemonade Day to
your community, call 713.626.KIDS (5437).
www.LemonadeDay.org
 Check In
Technically
Speaking
By Chip Lowe

W hen you log in to Facebook, you have probably noticed how people are
“checking in” at all the locations they visit in their daily commute or
on vacation. It has become the new fad to check in at the Lincoln Memorial
while in D.C., or your local Chick-fil-A restaurant when you stop to grab
a bite to eat. But what does checking in do for business?

Most retail businesses have already established a Facebook presence, but

Places takes the social networking experience to the next level. Now
customers, or bystanders, can check in to any particular location, and it
automatically shares with their friends that they have stopped by for a
visit. In addition, once checked in at a place, you can view all their other
Facebook friends checked in as well. It gives users of the network a better
way than ever to connect in real-time with one another.

In regards to corporate world utilization, businesses can also see when

Facebookers have checked in to their pages, and can even offer special deals
or referral rewards through the Places feature. With widespread deployment
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of Places via mobile devices that have the Facebook app, the audience is huge
for businesses to capitalize upon in their social networking and Internet
marketing campaigns.

Remember, with Facebook changing almost daily, you have to stay on top
of what is current in this social networking world! Check your Facebook,
check in to Facebook Places, and watch their blog for new features to pop
up so that you can be the one that spreads the news about the latest technical
news to your friends.

Have ideas you want to share in the Technically Speaking

column? Send it to me at emailchip@me.com

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 Innovation in Art
and Literature
I t’s a great time to be a young entrepreneur in North Dakota Marketplace for Kids. North Dakota’s
premier entrepreneurship program for students in grades three through middle school recently
announced a new initiative to their nationally-recognized program.

The new Innovation in Art and Literature, A Youth Initiative, is a collaborative effort between
Beautiful Women Of North DakotaTM and Marketplace for Kids, to inspire creative art and writing
expressed in wonderful stories. The lesson plan, developed by Marketplace for Kids, combined with
the tools to assist students in sharpening their interview, writing, and presentation skills, developed
by Beautiful Women of North Dakota,TM encourages youth to follow their theme – true beauty
comes from within!

The lesson plan, added to the popular Marketplace for Kids Learning Guide, walks students through
the steps of researching, interviewing, and writing their story and producing the accompanying
artwork. Stories written and showcased at a Marketplace for Kids Education Day will be submitted
to Beautiful Women Of North DakotaTM for an opportunity to be published by Kototama
Publishing.

But, there’s more! Not only was a new initiative added to the Learning Guide, the Adventures
in Agriculture & Using Our Renewable Resources section has been expanded! Now included is
information on youth gardening, community gardens, school gardens, and farmers markets. These
new updates allow teachers, parents, and educators to provide hands on experiential learning
activities on teaching students how to grow their own food, how to sell their own produce at a
market, how to create healthy and delicious recipes, and how to use sustainability techniques such
as composting. These new features serve to promote important emerging trends being seen across
the United States.

Marketplace for Kids has fostered a culture of entrepreneurship among the youth of North Dakota
for over 20 years. Thousands of students have been exposed to entrepreneurship at a time when many
said they were too young. However, the results of those years of work have been gaining momentum.
To recognize the efforts of a state focused on entrepreneurship, the Honorable Jack Dalrymple,
Governor of North Dakota, along with the future entrepreneurs took the time to officially recognize
Entrepreneurship Week, February 19-26, 2011, in North Dakota.
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Students who have participated in the Marketplace for Kids program, as well as those eagerly looking
forward to participating this year, gathered at the North Dakota State Capitol to meet Governor
Dalrymple, and witness the signing of the proclamation.

To further promote and inform the state’s legislators, organizations from across the state focused on
entrepreneurship and innovation education gathered at the North Dakota State Capitol on February
23, 2011. This event, sponsored in part by Marketplace for Kids, featureed not only organizations
providing outstanding support to entrepreneurs and innovators, but also those individuals they have
been working side by side with to encourage, guide, and promote. You can bet the youngest of those
entrepreneurs were present as we continue to support and provide entrepreneurship and innovation
education.

The Honorable Jack Dalrymple, Governor of North Dakota, signs the official proclamation recognizing February 19-26,
2011, as Entrepreneurship Week in North Dakota. On hand to witness the signing were back row from left to right Alaina
Beckert, Jacob Rader, Lucas Mayer, Lauren Bucholtz, and Samantha Clark, Northridge Elementary School; Audrey Kroll,
Marketplace for Kids; Kevin Reisenauer, ND Department of Career and Technical Education; Mike Seminary, Marketplace
for Kids Board of Directors; Jerald Lemar, Northridge Elementary School Instructor; Alex Harris, Wilton Public School and
inventor of Helmet Airbag; Luke Frigstad, Bradyn Just, and Briana Darger, Northridge Elementary School. Front row from
left to right Dylan Stockert and Lauren Oster , Northridge Elementary School; Ian Ridenhour, Home School Student and
inventor of Animal Attack Trading Card Game; Governor Jack Dalrymple; Katie Harris, Wilton Public School; Katie Bahr
and Sydney Trottier, Northridge Elementary School.

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 App For
Success
By Cesar X Sanchez

W hen I was 5 years old, I was first introduced

to the art of selling through a local television
station that operated a sales program for children.
Immediately, I excelled at this program. As a reward
for my efforts, I was given sale credits that I could
trade in for either cash or toys—at 5 years old, the choice was simple: toys. During local yard
sales, I was the child who frequently had the lemonade stand set up for business and customers
from the neighborhood knew where to go for a cup of freshly-squeezed lemonade.

My name is Cesar X. Sanchez and I was born in Fresno, Calif. Since I was a young boy,
I’ve always had a passion for selling and making money. Today, I serve as the CEO of
Thot Studios, a mobile phone development company that designs and creates mobile phone
applications and websites.

Outgrowing my lemonade stand days, I became set on providing services anywhere and any
way that I could. Throughout elementary school and middle school, I produced sales for
Boy Scouts of America, raised funds for various events and sold baseball and football cards
to anyone interested.

It wasn’t until high school, however, that I discovered a true entrepreneurial spirit. During
my experience in high school I founded both a sole proprietorship and one partnership: a
car audio and a separate lawn care business. Both of these ventures experienced success as
I was able to properly serve my customers and maintain the supply needed to operate my
businesses. I attribute both of these ventures as being responsible for providing my spending
cash during my teen years. All of this experience was necessary for the development of an
entrepreneurial mentality.

Although I had experience running businesses after my high school graduation, I felt that I
did not yet possess the skill sets necessary to run a business effectively. In addition, I also
felt that I was not behaving as creatively with my business as I desired. It was at this point
that I decided to begin a high-tech venture during my time at California State University,
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Fresno. While studying business, I went through a series of one-on-one mentoring sessions
through the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fresno State. It was here, at
the Lyles Center, that I slowly began to mentally paint the vision of Thot Studios.

Thot Studios has published two iPhone applications: Morti-Fi and iPlace Pro. Both of these
mobile applications are currently available through Apple’s App Store. Morti-Fi is a free
mortgage finance calculator that has garnered interest from users all over the world with its
user-friendly interface. iPlace Pro is a mobile application that specializes in allowing users to
share their favorite places through e-mail, text message, Facebook and Twitter. Only $1.99
at the App Store, iPlace Pro also provides users with a parking meter timer. This app option
alerts the user when their parking meter time is running low. More information on these
specific applications can be found at www.thotstudios.com.

Currently in development and due to release in February 2011,

iPlace Lite will be a modified version of the iPlace Pro application
developed by Thot Studios. iPlace Lite will be a free version
of iPlace Pro, but will maintain its categorization as a location
sharing application/ tool that notifies friends via their preferred
social network, e-mail or text message.

Thot Studios has also recently shifted its business model to

include not only expected revenue from iPhone applications, but
to also generate revenue from service-oriented projects, such
as the development of mobile applications for other firms and
websites.

In order to increase the scalability of Thot Studios, our team is currently working on creating
more personalized applications and marketing efforts. In the future, our team plans on
converting a significant portion of website visits into a mailing list that will be used to notify
potential customers of newly-released applications. In addition, Thot Studios constantly
searches for more creative ways to generate traffic and increase sales through application
modifications.

Dealing with the multiple details necessary for running Thot Studios, managing a high tech
venture may seem overwhelming on the surface; these details, however, are the least of an
entrepreneur’s worries. One of the major obstacles currently facing Thot Studios has been
the challenge of finding venture capital in the San Joaquin Valley. Although Thot Studios was
able to acquire seed funding during its first year, a second round of seed funding is one of the
goals for the second year of operations for the company.
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 Our team’s short term goal is to make it a sustainable venture. Given the nature of our startup
structure and model, a self-sustaining dollar amount would equal the same dollar amount that
Thot Studios is able to declare itself a full-time venture with; this dollar amount would be
around $100,000.

If one were to ask me how I believe success in business can be attained, I wouldn’t know the
perfect answer. However, from my experience, I can grasp three main secrets to success. First,
I believe that an entrepreneur must trust his or her production and management team. Without
trust, conflicts are inevitable and these conflicts will destroy one’s business. The Chief Operating
Officer of Thot Studios for example, Ashley Aouate, has been a trustworthy business partner.
It’s this characteristic in employees that allows the management team at Thot Studios to make
quick decisions and work successfully.

Second, as the famous Peter Drucker once said, “Do not confuse motion with progress.” For
any entrepreneur running a business operation, there will be a limitless amount of things that
can be done in any moment. However, the super majority of these things will be useless for
the advancement of your firm or organization. An entrepreneur must prioritize their projects
and daily activities starting with the activities that will advance their business. Only until then
will an entrepreneur experience true progress.

Last, an entrepreneur must learn to find ways around the obstacles of the mind. It is my belief
that in the mind of any entrepreneur, there always comes a time that makes the future look
bleak. However, it is also my belief that these moments are the ones that will either make
or break your venture. If an entrepreneur is able to find a way around the obstacle they are
facing, that entrepreneur will pave the way for their company to grow.

As an entrepreneur at heart, one of the most enjoyable aspects of running Thot Studios has
been the amount of creativity I can pour into the mobile applications. As I previously have
mentioned, selling goods and creativity have been my passions from a very early age. It is
my dream to run Thot Studios until it is able to reach its full potential. The potential at Thot
Studios is limitless.

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 Glambition!
G lambiton! On Your Mark….Get Ready, Get
Entrepreneurial! is an activity whose purpose is
to inspire girls between the ages of 12 to 15 years old. It
is a collaborative effort between the Carrefours jeunesse-emploi of the Island of Montréal, the Réseau
des Carrefours jeunesse-emploi du Québec and the Fédération québécoise des coopératives en milieu
scolaire (Coopsco).

This groundbreaking event incites girls to reach for their dreams and make it happen for themselves,
by considering entrepreneurial activities as a viable choice for their personal, social and professional
development. We believe that encouraging young girls to become social change makers is essential.
According to a recent study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, women tend to be less optimistic
and less confident with regards to their decision of starting a business. For this reason, we believe that
an event like the one outlined above is needed to ensure that girls are aware and posses the confidence
needed to take on new opportunities and make decisions that can impact their lives.

Every entrepreneurial activity that students undertake which is followed by

a period of self-reflection can contribute to one’s identity-building process
and in guiding students towards new academic and professional paths.[1]

During this event, eight female entrepreneurs will shares their stories and
know-how with the girls; this will take place in an interactive workshop
format. Afterwards, a procedural guide will be produced in order to allow
others to recreate the workshop in their communities.

This event is taking place during Global Entrepreneurial Week, a week

dedicated to celebrating entrepreneurship throughout 80 countries
worldwide and in Canada by 200 organisations.

Please visit http://www.gewcanada.com/ for further information on this week.

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