1. Content Coverage Warm Up Reviews

2. Entrepreneurs What is an entrepreneur?
A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses
2. What are the risks and benefits?
Incentives
Risks
Profit
Being your own boss
Working for yourself instead of others
Receiving the majority of the profits
50% of all businesses fail to make a profit in the first 5 years
60-90% fail in the first 18 months of operation
inexperience
Lack of capital
Too much competition
Lack of consumers
Misguided markets
Failure to innovate
Bad hiring decisions
Lose their own time and money
Financial risks

3. Name that Georgian Entrepreneur
Do you recognize these entrepreneurs from Georgia?
What company are they affiliated with?
Alonzo Herndon
Atlanta Mutual Life insurance
Anne Cox Chamber
Cox Enterprises
Ted Turner
media and cable TV titan
Arthur Blank
Home Depot and Atlanta Falcons
Bernie Marcus
Home Depot
Truett Cathy-
Chick fila
John Pemberton
Inventor of Coke
Asa Candler
Founder of the Coca-Cola Company
Robert W. Woodruff
Made Coca- Cola a world renowned corporation

4. Anticipation Guide: Transportation
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Statement
Correction/Support
The number one way Georgia’s transportation systems impact the economy is through job creation.
Over 5,000 companies employ 110,000
Thousands are employed to design, construct, and maintain Georgia’s transportation infrastructure.
Supports 110,000 full time jobs
These workers earn $3.9 billion annually
Transportation does not have a significant impact on other industries
1.9 million full time jobs are created by retail, agriculture and tourism which are completely dependent on our transportation systems
These employees earn $70.4 billion in wages.
Hartsfield Jackson Airport provides 8.4% of our state’s employment.
350,000 full and part jobs are supported by the deep water ports
1 out of 12 jobs is in some way dependent on the ports
Hartsfield Jackson Airport is the state’s largest employer
It provided 63,000 jobs onsite
Generates $34.8 billion for Atlanta T T F F T