Your ESB certification validates foundational-level understanding of core concepts related to starting or running a small business. Your digital badge makes it easy for you to promote these abilities to potential customers, investors, or even future employers on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as email and online portfolios. Individuals can click on your badge to verify and learn more about the details of your Entrepreneurship and Small Business knowledge and certification.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business is a certification delivered by Certiport, sponsored by Intuit and the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, that ensures tomorrow’s leaders are prepared with the toolkit they need to get ahead in today’s competitive landscape. Whether you are starting a bakery or launching the next billion dollar startup, ESB validates a students’ understanding of core business principles, including the essentials needed to launch and maintain a successful business.
Candidates for ESB certification will be expected to have key conceptual knowledge of entrepreneurial and small business principles through at least 150 hours of instruction. Please note that it is not required for students to have real-world experience as a small business manager in order to take and pass the exam. Successful completion of this certification will validate the skills and knowledge for those students interested in working in a middle-skill trade profession as their own boss and those with entrepreneurship and small business career aspirations.
Whether it is a beauty salon in a large metropolitan city, a taco shop in a booming resort location, or a car repair garage in the suburbs, an incredible number of small businesses can be found almost everywhere. In fact, in a recent report from Business.com, “every minute a new business is started in the U.S. and according to some, more than 50% of all workers will be self-employed by 2020 .” (The State of Small Business in America , 2015, Business.com, emphasis added.)
ESB certification engages and prepares students who will pursue additional postsecondary training or those who elect to enter the small business sector immediately upon high school graduation. The entrepreneurial concepts validated by this certification ensure that these students are college and career ready.
Through Certiport’s full pathway solution you can prepare your students for the ESB certification with tailored learning materials, practice tests, and a performance-based certification exam sponsored by Intuit and officially endorsed by The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Adding these materials into your curriculum is easy and seamless.
The full solution for ESB includes many additions to the learning materials, including a professional development course for teachers developed by The National Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (Entre-Ed). It also includes the Entrepreneurial Mindset Index (EMI) developed by NFTE, allowing learners to discover their own strengths and weaknesses through this self assessment. The EMI was designed to be delivered before and after learning the objective domains which allows for learners to explore how the course has influenced their mindset and which archetype they most closely align to.
Candidates who earn Intuit’s Design for Delight Innovator Certification and the Entrepreneurship and Small Business certification V.2, will receive the Master Certification in Entrepreneurship. Individuals who receive this certificate will have exhibited an understanding of concepts related to entrepreneurship, small business, and business design.
Preparing your students for certification is a big responsibility, so let Certiport make your job easier and more effective with specially-selected course materials and practice tests.
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It is recommended that students have least 150 hours of instruction to prepare yourself to pass the ESB exam.
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LearnKey video courseware enhances the learning experience and increases certification exam success. It provides self-paced on-demand video learning material for Certiport’s Entrepreneurship and Small Business program. These expert learning solutions are easy to use and interactive, and help prepare students for certification success.
Moore Solutions courseware has four key benefits for ESB certification:
Essentials of Entrepreneurship is a new, graphically illustrated textbook guides students through the steps it takes to initiate, manage, and sustain a business idea.
CCI Learning is a leader in the Global EdTech space specializing in interactive courseware, books (print and e-book), certification guides, and resources for instructors and learners. XperienceED, their cutting-edge kinesthetic learning platform, offers a live in-app learning experience for the Entrepreneurship and Small Business certifications It’s mapped to Certiport’s exam objectives and prepares learners to be certification ready.
BrainBuffet is your one-stop shop for certification prep and curriculum. We offer great teacher resources such as completed lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, project files, answer keys, and more. Students have access to self-paced video tutorials that have interactive questions that check for comprehension and understanding of key concepts and objective domains. BrainBuffet courses are based on fun projects that don’t require rote memorization or boring textbooks.
Master the entire entrepreneurial journey. From refining the business model to acquiring customers and managing financial health, Savvy Entrepreneurship (ebook or print) gives students full command over starting, managing, and scaling new ventures. Key features include:
These performance-based assessment and test preparation tools help individuals achieve certification credentials. Many of your students will be anxious to assess their knowledge of applications prior to taking the certification exams. Additionally, we recognize the need for educators to properly assess an individual’s knowledge. Certiport provides CertPREP Practice Tests that are powered by GMetrix. These tests, with included reporting and insight features, ensure your students are adequately prepared to take their certification exam.
CertPREP Practice Tests are customizable, allowing you to create a highly-effective environment conducive to student-centered learning. CertPREP Practice Tests offer two different modes:
The ESB certification is built to test and validate foundation-level concepts and knowledge in entrepreneurship and small business management. These core concepts include entrepreneurship; recognizing and evaluating opportunities; planning for, starting, and operating a business; marketing and sales; venture capital and seed funding; and financial management.
Country-Specific Exam versus Universal Exam
All ESB exams use the same Objective Domains and are delivered through Certiport.
The Master Certification in Entrepreneurship is the next step in validating an understanding of essential business principles, but expands the scope to include design thinking. This certification is earned by completing the ESB certification as well as Intuit’s Design for Delight Innovator Certification. The Design for Delight Innovator certification focuses on three domains surrounding design thinking:
Successfully completing the Design for Delight Innovator Certification and the Entrepreneurship in Small Business Certification v.2, will result in being awarded the Master Certification in Entrepreneurship.
Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome. Representing your credential as a badge gives you the ability to share your skills online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time.
Your ESB certification validates foundational-level understanding of core concepts related to starting or running a small business. Your digital badge makes it easy for you to promote these abilities to potential customers, investors, or even future employers on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, as well as email and online portfolios. Individuals can click on your badge to verify and learn more about the details of your Entrepreneurship and Small Business knowledge and certification.
Credly is the digital badging platform used by Certiport. It helps students move forward professionally by quickly establishing credibility for opportunities in higher education and the job market. Each badge contains verifiable data that tells employers and admission committees what you did, who says you did it, and why it matters. What does this mean for you? Watch the video to find out.
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Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome. Representing your credential as a badge gives you the ability to share your skills online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time.
Digital badges are web-enabled versions of a credential, certification or learning outcome. Representing your credential as a badge gives you the ability to share your skills online in a way that is simple, trusted and can be easily verified in real time.
The full solution for ESB includes many additions to the learning materials, including a professional development course for teachers developed by The National Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education (Entre-Ed). It also includes the Entrepreneurial Mindset Index (EMI) developed by NFTE, allowing learners to discover their own strengths and weaknesses through this self assessment. The EMI was designed to be delivered before and after learning the objective domains which allows for learners to explore how the course has influenced their mindset and which archetype they most closely align to.
The ESB certification is built to test and validate foundation-level concepts and knowledge in entrepreneurship and small business management. These core concepts include entrepreneurship; recognizing and evaluating opportunities; planning for, starting, and operating a business; marketing and sales; venture capital and seed funding; and financial management.
Country-Specific Exam versus Universal Exam
All ESB exams use the same Objective Domains and are delivered through Certiport.
See www.certiport.com/products for a complete list of available ESB exams.
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The Master Certification in Entrepreneurship is the next step in validating an understanding of essential business principles, but expands the scope to include design thinking. This certification is earned by completing the ESB certification as well as Intuit’s Design for Delight Innovator Certification. The Design for Delight Innovator certification focuses on three domains surrounding design thinking:
Successfully completing the Design for Delight Innovator Certification and the Entrepreneurship in Small Business Certifcation v.2, will result in being awarded the Master Certification in Entrepreneurship.
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