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        | Rules about how businesses and their employees ought to behave |  
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        | Set of rules for guiding the actions of employees or members of an organization |  
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        | Gives the inventor the sole right to make, use, or sell the item for 20 years |  
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        | Protects the creative works of authors, composers, and artists, Extends to 70 years after the persons death |  
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        | A word, letter, or symbol linked with a specific company or products |  
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        | Exists when a business has control of the market for a product or service |  
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        | Create the products and services by individuals and other businesses |  
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        | Business that takes resources from nature for direct consumption or for use in developing other products |  
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        | cultivate land and use other natural resources to grow crops and raise livestock for consumption |  
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        | Gets supplies from other producers and converts them into products |  
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        | Businesses involved in selling goods and services of producers to consumers and other businesses |  
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        | Carries out activities that are consumed by it customers |  
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        | Business owned and run by just one person |  
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        | Business owned and controlled by 2 or more people who have entered into an agreement |  
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        | Owned by 1 or more shareholders and managed by board of directors |  
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        | Articles of Incorporation |  
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        | Written legal document that defines ownership and operating procedures and conditions of the business |  
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        | Unique business organized by 2 or more other businesses to operate for a limited time for a specific project |  
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        | Limited Liability Corporation |  
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        | A partnership that provides liability protection for owners |  
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        | group of people who join to do some activity that benefits the public |  
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        | formed so members can purchase goods and serves more cheaply as a group than they could individually |  
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        | Written contract granting permission to operate a business to sell products and services in a set way |  
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        | Someone who takes a risk in starting a business to earn a profit |  
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        | Money provided by large investors to finance new products and new businesses that have a good chance to be very profitable |  
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        | An invention or creation that is brand new |  
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        | An independent business with fewer than 500 employees |  
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        | A written description of the business idea and how it will be carried out |  
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        | the amount of money needed to open the business |  
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        | the money needed to pay for the current operating activities of a business |  
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        | money needed for the main resources of a business |  
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        | A diagram that shows the structure of an organization |  
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