Individuals who back emerging entrepreneurial ventures so they both can attract venture capital:

A person who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business venture:

Taking ownership for another business:

A form of protection for published and unpublished literary, scientific, and artistic works that have been fixed in a tangible or material form:

Someone who takes on entrepreneur-like ventures within large corporate environment:

A legal entity that is not taxable itself and distributes the profits to its owner, but shields personal assets form business debt like corporations

An organizational structure in which each general partner shares in the administration, profits, and losses of the operation:

A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, liabilities distinct from those of its members:

A form of legal protection for words, names, symbols, sounds, or colors that distinguish goods and services:

A property right granted to an inventor to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention for limited time in exchange for public disclosure of invention when the patent is granted:

Developing business contacts to form business relationships, increase your knowledge, expand your business base, or serve the community:

A formal estimate of the value of something on the open market:

A business owned and operated by one person:

The exchange of a product or service for money: