Agripreneur

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Agripreneur: Creating wealth through Food and Agricultural Entrepreneurship is a virtual education newsletter dealing with all aspects of entrepreneurship. The focus is on small to medium sized businesses and the policies that affect them.

Agripreneur is a joint project of the following organizations:

Farm Income Enchancement Program
College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences
The Ohio State University
Michigan State University Agricultural Products Center

Some of the topics that may be covered:

The applied economics of business and business management
Steps in the process of starting a new business - the need for and role of "founders' capital"
Marketing and finance including more arcane subjects such as SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) rules for qualified investors
Alternative legal structures in Ohio and Michigan for a new business
Raising venture capital
Small business policy and regulations