Starting Out

The first steps into entrepreneurship with your students will start with

Identifying personal entrepreneurial traits
Several interactive self-assessments are listed on the student pages.
Reading about successful entrepreneurs to identify with the possibilities
Exercising creativity in seeing business possibilities
To help students generate creative ideas , here are some sites you may want to visit.
- Creative Education Foundation
- National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance

Here are a few books for brainstorming:

Planning Shop (June 1, 2004) ISBN: 096696358X	What Business Should I Start: Seven Steps to Discovering the Ideal Business for You By Scott Cook (Foreword), Rhonda Abrams	This up-to-date book gets great reviews.
Bloomberg Press (June 15, 2002) ISBN: 157660117X	201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business: Revised & Updated Edition By Jane Applegate
Broadway, 3rd Rev edition (August 15, 2000) ISBN: 0767906594	101 Best Businesses to Start: the Essential Sourcebook of Success Stories, Practical Advice and the Hottest Ideas By Russell Roberts
John Wiley & Sons (April 8, 2005) ISBN: 0471692875	100 Small Business Ideas for Under $5000 By Corey Sandler, Janice Keefe