Section 1: The Challenge of Entrepreneurship

The Foundations
of Entrepreneurship

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Young entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs

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Young entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs
Minority-owned enterprises

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Young entrepreneurs
Women entrepreneurs
Minority-owned enterprises
Immigrant entrepreneurs
Part-time entrepreneurs

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Home-based businesses
Family businesses
Copreneurs
entrepreneurial couples who work together as co-
owners of their businesses.
Corporate castoffs
Corporate dropouts
Retiring baby boomers
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Corporate castoffs:
Those individuals who are unemployed and are
highly educated and skilled, and had corporate
executive jobs.

Corporate dropouts:
Executives who leave the corporate to pursue their
own dreams and aspirations by starting their
own businesses.

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Retiring baby boomers
Baby boomer is a group of people who were born
between 1946 and 1964.
Labeled so because during this period of time ,
there was a statistically significant increase in
the number of births that occurred.
During the 22-year period , 76.4 million people
were born (one quarter of US population)

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