Entrepreneurship- Vantage Learning Platform

The Practice and Mindset

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KEY FEATURES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE PRACTICE AND MINDSET, THIRD EDITION

New to this Edition:

• 14 new case studies and 15 new Entrepreneurship in Action profiles highlight a diverse range of entrepreneurs and starts ups.
• 7 new Mindshift Activities provide students with even more opportunities to practice developing their entrepreneurial mindset and skillset.
• Chapter 3 Facilitating Social Entrepreneurship is moved earlier in the book to emphasize using entrepreneurship for solving pressing social and environmental problems.
• New Chapter 16 Pitching to Launch delivers a template to help students create a unique and memorable way to present their business idea to investors.
• New expanded coverage of brand strategy, artificial intelligence, service design thinking, resilience and reflection, and diversity issues in entrepreneurship.
• Updated research, statistics, and examples throughout.

Key Features:

• 2 Mindshift Activities per chapter challenge students to take action outside the classroom and do entrepreneurship.
• Instructors are provided with detailed, imaginative experiential learning activities.
• A chapter on Learning from Failure helps students anticipate setbacks, develop resilience, and understand the value of experimentation and iteration.
• VentureBlocks Simulation can be packaged with the book to help students practice entrepreneurial processes. Created by Heidi Neck and Anton Yakushin, the simulation has students complete missions to practice interviewing customers, identifying new opportunities, and reflect on what they’ve learned.
• Assignable Sage Premium Video (available via the Sage Vantage platform, linked through Sage Coursepacks) that is tied to learning objectives, and curated and produced exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life, featuring Entrepreneur Challenge, Entrepreneurship in Action, and Make the Pitch video activities. Chapters include assignable assessment questions, complete assignable chapter knowledge check quizzes, and take a comprehensive chapter test to bring the subject matter to life in a way a traditional print text cannot.