Discussion Questions

Entrepreneurship Discussions Questions:

All discussion questions must be 4-7 sentences.

1. Identify which of the entrepreneurial traits in the video, Think Like an Entrepreneur, aligns with one of your strengths. Share with your classmates examples of how you demonstrate this strength.

2. What company do you believe has a great understanding of its target market? List two things they do well and two things they could do better. What is your planned primary target market? State your approved business idea's target market and explain your reason for your choice.

Approved Business Idea : My business idea is based on the beauty industry and its market. The main business will be reselling new and lightly used cosmetics. This business is intended to be very successful in the market due to the increase in demand for beauty products among residents in the town. More so, most of the residents who live in town are women who work in most of the town's offices. Furthermore, students who study in colleges and universities within town require cosmetics to maintain their cleanliness in schools. This paper aims at discussing the business idea as a step towards starting a small business that will later grow to a big business in town.

3. Find a current article (something within the past 3 years) on a topic related to intellectual property. Post a link to the article and explain how the ideas covered in the article could be relevant to a future business owner.

4. List at least three different ways you could fund your business and explain the pros and cons of each.

5. List at least three different ways you could fund your business and explain the pros and cons of each.

Critical Thinking Discussion Questions

1. Find an online article (news, magazine, journal, etc.) of interest that uses statistics to make its conclusion.

Share a link in this thread, and answer these questions about that article:

. What is the premise and conclusion of the argument based on statistics?

. Determine whether or not the argument uses any deceptive statistics.

. Give your opinion on whether the argument has persuaded you. Explain why or not.

. Determine the primary ways in which statistics or authority are used in your current position in developing persuasive arguments and provide examples here.

2. Examine some key reasons why people might seem attracted to pseudoscientific claims.

Describe at least two such claims that you have heard people make and analyze the main reasons why such claims do or do not meet rigorous scientific methodology standards.

Determine at least two ways in which the material discussed this week has changed your own thinking.

3. Consider the following quote by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who believed that thought without language was impossible: “The limits of my language are the limits of my life.” For more information on Wittgenstein and his analysis on the importance of language, watch the video Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951) The Limits of Language.

Please respond to the following:

Examine whether it is possible to think without using language.

If you believe it is possible, describe the primary ways in which a person might enact so-called languageless thinking.

If you believe it is not possible, describe what you foresee as major problems with "languageless" thinking.