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College
and Career
Readiness
C H A P T E R
Sections
What might Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Paul Allen, Larry
Page, Sergey Brin, and you have in common? Entrepreneurship. They
are all entrepreneurs, and you may be an entrepreneur, too. Each of
these entrepreneurs sat where you are now sitting at one point in
his or her life—thinking about becoming an entrepreneur. Oprah
began her career by learning to perform at age three and entered
broadcasting at age 17. By age 12, Steven Spielberg had created his first
movie and charged admission to showings of it. Microsoft cofounder
Paul Allen began programming computers when he was 15. Larry
Page loved working with computers by the time he had reached the
age of six. In college, he met Sergey Brin and together they created
Google. What will you do?
Reading Prep. Review the
table of contents for this
text. Trace the development
of the content that is being
presented from simple to
complex ideas.
1
Entrepreneurial
Careers
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made
it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up
and make them!”
—Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American
hair-care products and America’s fi rst African-American female millionaire
1.1 Your Career
1.2 Becoming an Entrepreneur