Entrepreneurship: risk taking behavior that results in new opportunities
Classic entrepreneur: someone
who's willing to pursue
opportunities in situations others
view as problem or threats
Serial entrepreneur: starts and run business
and nonprofits over and over again, moving
from interest & opportunity to the next
Entrepreneur skill: first
mover advantage =
comes form being able
to exploit a niche or
enter a market
May Kay Ash : Mary Kay
cosmetics to help women
everywhere to reach their full
potential, invest with $5000.
DAVID THOMAS- Founder of
WENDY's -- world's famous
burger cook
Characteristics of enterpreneurs
Found within organisations:
INTRAPRENEURS- those
with entreprenuerial
characteristics as
employees of larger firms
attitudes & personal interests
Flexibility (corrective actions) Tolerance for
ambiguity (risk takers)Self confidence
(competent) Internal locus of control
(destiny)High energy level (hardworking)
High need for achievement (motivated)
Background, experiences & interests
Family environment & childhood experiences
work history
windows career of opportunity age 22-45 risk taking allowed
deeply embedded life interests :
creative production (enjoy project
initiation & working with unknown &
find unconventional solutions&
enterprise control (enjoy running
things) = starts things and move
things toward a goal. Independence
& mastery sense.
Myths of entrepreneurs
gamblers
born not made--> talent is gained and enhanced by experience
Money is the
key to
Entrepreneur
success
Diversity & Entreprenuership
Necessity based entrepreneurship:
occurs when other employment don't
exist
38% of all US businesses are
women and they are starting new
businesses twice the rate of the
national average. In the private sector
employment business 33% said they
were not taken seriously by their prior
employer while 29% said they
experience glass ceiling issues.
glass ceiling problem motivates
women of color to persue
entrepreneurship include not being
recognised or valued by their
employers and seeing other promoted
ahead of them. Minortiy
entreprenuership is one of the fastest
growing sectors of our economy.
Businesses created by minortiy
entreprenuers now employ more than
4 million US workers and generat
eover 500 billion in annual revenues.
And the trend i upward. Those owned
by African American has grown by
45%, by Asians 24% and small
business owned by women 24%
Social Entrepreneurship
(unique form of ethical
entrepreneurship that takes
risk seeks new ways to
solve pressing social
problems)
1) Cleaning for a reason- NPO that builds
networks of linkages with cleaning firms
around the country that are willing to offer free
home cleaning for cancer patient .2) 2 S.E
tackled public health in Africa Sub realizing
that developing nations are often bogged
down in paperwork of public healt, they
created software that make process quicker
and more efficient while increasing the
reliability of resulting databases. UN now
helping them.
Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Small business
has fewer than 500 employees, independently owned and operated and does
not dominate the industry. 99% of American business meet this definition, 87%
of them employ fewer than 20 persons. small business in the US employ 52%
private workers & provide 51% private sector output and provide 7/10 new jobs
in the economy . created 70% news jobs. they are life blood of the country and
help enhance our quality of life and creating personal wealth. they will lead the
way to prosperity, especially in today''s challenging economic environment
Why they fail?
insufficient financing
lack of expertise
lack of experience
lack of strategy & strategic leadership
poor financial control
growing too fast
lack of commitment
ethical failure
Development
Business incubators: offer space,
shared services and advise to help
get small business started
Small Business Development Centers founded
with support from the US small business
administration provide advise to new and existing
small businesses
Why & how they get started/
1)want to be their own
boss & control their future
2)going to work for a family
owned business 3)seeking
to fulfill a dream
Franchise: when one business
owner sells to another the right
to operate the same business in
another location
Start Up: a new and
temporary venture
that is trying to
discover a profitable
business model for
future success
Lean Startups: use open
source software, while
staying small and striving to
keep operations as simple as
possible
FAMILY BUSINESS
family business feud
Succession problem
succession plan
INTERNET ENTREPRENEURSHIP
ADVERTISING MODEL
SUBSCRIPTION MODEL
INTERMEDIARY MODEL
TRANSACTION MODEL
New venture creation of
entrepreneurial firms
Life
cycles
Writing
Business Plan
Business plan describes the
direction for new business &
financing needed to operate it
sample outline
Executive summary .
Industry analysis.
Company description.
Products & services
description. market
description. marketing
strategy. Milestones
forms of ownership
Sole proprietorship
Partnership
general partnership:
partners share
management
responsibilities
limited partnership: consists of a
general partner and one or more
limited partners who do not
participate in daily business
management, they share in the
profits but their losses are limited
to the amount of their investment
limited liability partnership: common
among professionals, limits the liability of
one partner for the negligence of another
Corporation
Pros: grants the organisation
certain legal rights (e.g. to
engage in contracts) &
corporation becomes
responsible for its own
liabilities which seperates
the owners from personal
liability and gives the firm a
life of its own that can extend
beyond of its owners/
Con: Rests largely with the
cost of incorporating and
the complexity of the
documentation required to
operate as an incorporated
business
LIMITED LIABILITY
CORPORATION
a hybrid business form combining the
pros of the sole proprietorship,
partnership and corporation. For liability
purpose it functions like a corporation
and protects the assets of owners
against claims made against the
company. For tax purposes, it functions
as a partnership in the case of multiple
owners and a sole proprietorship in the
case of a single owner