Title: Describe the entrepreneurial mindset.
Course: Entrepreneurship (12053-I) > Section: Understanding Entrepreneurship

Description should include characteristics that make an effective entrepreneur:

- Ability to recognize opportunity
- Comfortable with risk
- Creative and innovative
- Future orientation
- Flexible and adaptable
- Initiator and self-reliant
- Critical thinker and problem-solver
- Communicative and collaborative

Process/Skill Questions:

- What circumstances can motivate a person to become an entrepreneur?
- What skills do entrepreneurs need to be successful?
- What is the most crucial personal characteristic for entrepreneurs? Why?
- How can a person develop entrepreneurial traits? Entrepreneurial skills?
- What personality traits could interfere with someone becoming an entrepreneur?
- How can an awareness of societal or technological trends benefit an entrepreneur?
- Why is it important to examine one’s interests and aptitudes before starting a business?
- Why are entrepreneurs often considered leaders?

Teacher Resources:

- Entrepreneurial Mindset, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
- Free Entrepreneurial Mindsets and Skills Poster, VentureLab