This lesson teaches key vocab and concepts about entrepreneurs, angel investors, start-ups, larger companies, and more. This is appropriate for any student with business interests.

1. Entrepreneurs

2. What’s your job?
What time do you begin work everyday?
What time do you finish work everyday?
What’s another way to say begin?
I’m a teacher.
We can say ‘start’.
I begin work at 12.
I finish work at 9.

3. What’s he
doing?
He’s
starting up
the car.

4. 1. What is an entrepreneur?
2. What’s another way to say “a new business”?
Someone who starts (up) a new company.
A start-up.

5. Who are some famous
entrepreneurs that you
know?
What are they famous
for?

6. 1. Some entrepreneurs make a new product.
What are they called?
Those entrepreneurs are creators.
2. Some entrepreneurs take an existing product
and change it, or make it better.
Those entrepreneurs are innovators.

7. 1. Can you think of any famous creators?
2. Can you think of any famous innovators?

8. What’s he
doing?
He’s planting
seeds.
What’s that?
That’s a seed.

9. What happened
to the seed?
It ______ into a
plant.
turned

10. What happened to the plant?
The plant turned into a tree.

11. What do you want to turn into
(become) when you get older?
Have you turned into a different
person since you were in
secondary school?

12. If you want your young start-up to
grow and turn into a larger
company then what kind of
money do you need?
You need seed money.

13. What is she?
She is an angel.
What is the adjective
form of ‘angel’?
Angelic
Can you use ‘angellic’ in a sentence?
She is so beautiful, so angelic!

14. Where can you get seed money from?
You can get it from angel investors.

15. Angels are individual people (only
1 person). Sometimes a group of
people join together to invest in
start-ups. What’s that called?
That’s called a VC firm.

16. What does VC stand for?
Venture Capital
What does
capital mean?
Money which is
available for
investment.
1.
2. What does venture
mean?
3.
A dangerous or risky
journey/action.

17. So what do you do there?
I’m a _______ __________.
I work at a VC firm
Well I spend a lot of time deciding
which ____ __________ I want to
_____ ___.
A:
B:
A:
venture capitalist
new businesses
ininvest

18. Would you like to be a VC?
Would you prefer to be an angel?

19. Seed Stage
While seed funding varies significantly in
terms of the amount of capital they generate
for a new company, it's not uncommon for
these rounds to produce anywhere from
__________ up to _____________ for the
startup.
10,000 USD 2,000,000 USD

20. Funding Stages
1. Pre-seed
2. Seed
3. Series A
4. Series B
5. Series C
6. IPO

21. What does IPO stand for?
What does IPO mean?
Initial Public Offering
If a company wants to offer their company
stocks to everyone (i.e. the public) for
investment on a stock exchange they can
do an IPO.

22. He is the
_________.crowd
They are the
______. performer

23. Everyone can ask for money on the
internet and receive funding from many
people who they don’t know. What is this
called?
This is called crowd-funding.

24. What can people receive crowd-funding for?
What’s the difference between crowd-funding
and getting funding from angel investors or
VC’s?
So many things. Even for paying school
tuition!!
Crowd funders will probably not make any
money from you. Angels and VC’s will.

25. What’s that?
An Army Tank

26. Sometimes to think of a great
new idea, smart people meet up
and think together. What’s that
called?
It’s a think tank.

27. Now, you are your partners
will be an entrepreneurial
think tank.
Try to create a great new
business idea together.

28. $1,000,000
$1,000,000,000
How much money is that?
One million dollars.
One billion dollars.

30. Most companies raising seed funding
are valued at………
……..somewhere between
$3 million and $6 million.
Some special tech companies have a
value over $1 billion in the seed stage.
What are they called?
Unicorn companies.

31. 1. Start up
2. Think tank
3. Entrepreneur
4. Innovate
5. Seed money
6. Angel
7. Unicorn
8. VC Firm
9. IPO
10. Crowdfunding
a. Make better
b. First investment
c. Donations from many people
d. Offer stocks
e. Group of investors for new companies.
f. New company
g. Group of smart people
h. Very valuable young company
i. Someone who starts a new business.
j. Rich individual investor
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