Entrepreneur Presentation

OVERVIEW

This is an individual assignment designed to help expand your knowledge of how individuals become successful in business. You will do this by listening to a podcast/interview of an entrepreneur on “How I Built This” and then analyzing how they came up with their business idea, overcame challenges and what traits/skills helped them become successful. Due date: Consult your course calendar.

LEARNING

GOALS

This assignment will help you:

• Increase your business knowledge by learning what elements and traits make an individual successful.

• Develop your critical thinking skills by analyzing successful entrepreneurs.

• Improve your oral presentation skills.

ASSIGNMENT

1. Review. Begin by going to http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this and reviewing the list of available interviews.

2. Select. Select one – three entrepreneurs that are of interest to you.

3. Claim. You will be claiming your preferred entrepreneur, per our class calendar, and only one entrepreneur per class is allowed.

4. Listen & take notes. Listen to the interview taking notes along the way. You will be answering the following questions:

• Who is the entrepreneur? Is there any reason you chose this individual?

• What did you learn about their background, especially as related to their business.

• How did they come up with their business idea?

• What challenges did they face in launching/growing/succeeding?

• How did they overcome these challenges?

• Review the Exhibit 6.2 on page 127, Qualities shared by Successful Entrepreneurs. Identify at least three qualities that your entrepreneur demonstrated from that list.

• For each quality provide a cited example.

5. Organize. Organize your information into a 3-minute PowerPoint presentation and talking point notes to share with your peer team.

DETAILS

• This will be a ten-fourteen slide presentation (plus your Reference Page Slide), lasting no more than 3-minutes.

• Include talking points that outline the details of what you will saying in your presentation. You can do this in the “notes” section at the bottom of the PowerPoint or on a separate document. If you use a separate document be sure to track notes to slides.

• Include internal citations in your notes for all examples you use to support your points.

• Include a Reference page on your PowerPoint. Only include sources on your

Reference Page that you used in your talking points, slides, or both!

• Jabs College of Business citation format is APA, APA Help is found in the

“Communications Help” section on Brightspace/D2L.

• You will have at least two sources: Your text and the NPR interview.