What is an Entrepreneur?

An entrepreneur is a person who organizes and manages a business undertaking, assuming the risk for the sake of the profit. An entrepreneur: Sees an opportunity. Makes a plan. Starts a business. Manages the business. Receives the profits.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't require you to have a college degree or even a high school degree. Anyone can become an entrepreneur. Just create a business and you are by definition "an entrepreneur." Don't forget age has no limit on becoming an entrepreneur. 

Found  definition at http://www.sba.gov/content/what-entrepreneur .

Top 10 Tips for Entrepreneurship

1. Focus. Focus. Focus
2. Know what you do. Do what you know.
3. Say it in 30 seconds or don't say it at all.
4. Know what you know, what you don't know and who knows what you don't.
5. Act like a startup.
6. Learn under fire.
7. No one will give you money.
8. Be Healthy.
9. Don't fall victim to your own excuses.
10. Know when to call it quits.

You can read the whole article at http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/203254 .

Toss-Back Tuesday

Tossing it back to DECA winners two years ago. Above: Courtney Howe, Austin Davis, and Emily Gooch at Salt Lake City, Utah when they won first place at nationals. Below: Heather Montgomery receiving a state trophy and advancing onto nationals.