1. Entrepreneurs hold many common traits, identify five common traits of an entrepreneur that resonate with you and discuss each one of the five traits and why they matter to you.

2. Why is prototyping important? How do entrepreneurs strike a perfect balance between speed, resource availability and continual learning?

3. Discuss how to use sustainability as a source of innovation to drive new growth and generate enhanced economic, social, and environmental outcomesfor new ventures.

4. Why is it important for an entrepreneur to develop a Sustainable Business Model Canvas? Discuss the elements of creating a sustainable business model and how it can be developed further for implementation?

5. In class we discussed the difference between customer satisfaction and customer delight, discuss why company culture is important to deliver customer delight, provide an example of an organization that delivers customer delight.

6. Select an organization in an industry you prefer, make one recommendation of how this organization can develop innovative ways to attract, recruit and retain employee talent?

7. Discuss each of the three corporate level strategies we discussed in class and provide an example for each of these corporate level strategies with a company and their product/service.

8. List and discuss five of the most important factors venture capitalist must consider before investing in a New Venture.