Assignment Content
Competency
Assess the characteristics of an entrepreneurial mindset.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
You have decided to open a cupcake bakery and move your home-based business into a storefront. Recently, you met with SBA National, a non-profit, that focuses on helping entrepreneurs start their business with funding and guidance. The non-profit also hosts a business pitch competition to anyone who is a client. One of the requirements of the SBA business pitch competition is that each participant must create a memo about how an entrepreneurial mindset can be used to start a business.
Instructions
Create a memo outlining how you plan to use the entrepreneurial mindset for your business. Conduct research on the entrepreneurial mindset and do the following in the memo:
Describe what aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset can be used in a business.
Outline how you would use those aspects in your business.
Provide your recommendation from your research on how the entrepreneurial mindset can be beneficial to your business.
Provide attribution for credible sources.
Rubric:
Criterion 1
A – 4 – Mastery
Comprehensive memo formatting.
Criterion 2
A – 4 – Mastery
Memo includes comprehensive description of what aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset can be used in a business.
Criterion 3
A – 4 – Mastery
Memo provides comprehensive description of how student would use those aspects in their business.
Criterion 4
A – 4 – Mastery
Memo provides comprehensive recommendation from research on how the entrepreneurial mindset can be beneficial to student’s business.
Criterion 5
A – 4 – Mastery
Memo provides comprehensive attribution for credible sources.