Monday, November 15, 2010

Student Surveys

E-mail me a link to and the topic of your market survey. I will post it here for other students to take. Try to promote your survey as much as you can on other social networks to get the largest sample possible.

Xiara Bello: LINK
Emily Gonzales: LINK Pastries
Samantha Plateroti:
Kevin Escobar: LINK
Ashley Rothweiller: LINK
Julia Girardi: LINK
Emery Zuk: LINK Baba Washer
Alyson Lorys: LINK ChocoPops

Take market research survey

Please take this survey for Eva's Edibles Personal Chef service

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Social Security turns RED

Read this article about the current state of our Social Security system.

Post a comment here about your reaction to it.
Link: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/03/25/social-security-in-the-red/

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Housing market: is it safe yet?

This article from the 1st quarter of 2009 indicates further falls are still expected. especially in certain markets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/economy/22leonhardt.html?_r=1
Click on the lines in the chart to identify the markets where the ration of median home prices to income are the greatest. Why do you think they differ from city to city?

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Take this NFTE survey

Follow this link to take the NFTE pre-course survey. If that doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.nftesurveys.com/survey/289847/163b/
This is an anonymous survey. Please only identify yourself by your initials

Monday, May 25, 2009

Creating Wealth through Trade Survey


Navigate to this link to update the results of our classroom activity: Creating Wealth Through Trade:

Remember the following rules:
  1. The bag number you started with is your number throughout the survey: ONLY ENTER YOUR OPINIONS IN YOUR OWN ROW!
  2. Only enter whole numbers during each round.
  3. Your opinion of the value of your 'good' is on a scale of 1 to 5: ONE IS THE WORST and FIVE IS THE BEST.
  4. Do not go back and change your opinion of previous rounds of trading.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

PowerPoint guidelines for Business plan

Here are ideas of slides you could incorporate into your presentation of your Business to potential investors.

  1. Company name, logo/picture & partners company slogan/motto
  2. Intro: Why an investment in your company is such a good idea.
  3. Describe the business: what does your company do?
  4. Describe the market? What is the competition like?
  5. Why is your firm going to be successful? What makes you unique?
  6. Financial projections (how much $ will your company make & when?)
  7. Start-up expenses and capitalization (how much $ do you need to start?
  8. What did your break-even analysis reveal about how soon the investors’ money will be earned?
  9. Summary: Close the deal: ask for the investment capital.