On Becoming An Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs drive America's economy, accounting for the majority of our nation's new job creation and innovations. According to the U. S. Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Business Owners, self-employed individuals who have no paid employees operate three-fourths of U.S. businesses.

The U. S. Small Business Administration reports that America's 25.8 million small businesses employ more than 50 percent of the private workforce, generate more than half of the nation's gross domestic product, and are the principal source of new jobs in the U.S. economy.

Entrepreneurship is an employment strategy that can lead to economic self-sufficiency for anypne who gives it their best effort. Particularly in a slumped economy, self-employment provides people with the potential to create and manage businesses in which they function as the employer or boss, rather than merely being an employee. Nearly 80 percent of would-be entrepreneurs in the United States are between the ages of 18 and 34! A 2005 poll from Junior Achievement (JA) found that 68.6 percent of the teenagers interviewed wanted to become entrepreneurs, even though they knew that it would not be an easy path. In spite of this overwhelming interest, however, youth rarely receive any information about entrepreneurship as a career option.

Here at the F.E.C.L.C. we seek to prepare people, old and young alike, to be responsible, enterprising memebers of a larger community who become entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial thinkers by immersing them in real life learning experiences where they can take risks, manage the results, and learn from the outcomes.

Wont you come and join us on a Saturday afternoon 2 pm to 4 pm and help us help you get that business idea you've long wanted to pursue off the ground?

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