Guest Entrepreneur Talking Points

Guest Entrepreneur Talking Points

(Adapted from The New Youth Entrepreneur: Instructor’s Guide, EDTEC and Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, 1999, p. 1C. Used with permission.)

Program directors can use this form with guest speakers. The invited guest completes this form prior to his/her visit; the exercise of doing so will help guests to organize their presentation and cover important talking points the students will be interested in hearing.

Speaker’s Name: _____________________________ 

Date: ______________________________________

Name of Company: ____________________________________________

Type of Business: ______________________________________________

Personal Background Information of Entrepreneur:

• Goods and/or services produced by business—
  
• Reasons you became an entrepreneur—
  
• Strengths you possessed which helped you as an entrepreneur—
  
• Weaknesses you had or have as an entrepreneur and ways you are dealing with those weaknesses—
  
• The effect the entrepreneurial venture has on you and your family—