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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship is the activity or process of setting up a business taking on any financial risks involved in hopes of making a profit
Applied to any industry
ENTREPRENEUR
Entreprenurs identify a unmet need in the market and sets up a business on a idea or innovation
skills
Decision making, innovation, problem solving skills, communication, net working skills,
FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE
Control over your own money. Freedom to organising your own life. Having money to pay for things in life. Deciding your own income. Responsible for business and money to pay employees.
PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE
Have full control over business. Day to day operation. Many frustrated that don’t have enough say. Many feel constrained. Greater control over your life style.
profit
The amount of money you deduct your revenue from expenses.
MARKET Gap
Consumers desire a particular product or service = gap in the market
Lookin for a market gap and Filling market need means being able to create a product or service that consumers want or need or demand
SOCIAL NEED
Something in society that needs help of a business. Issues that exist within local or global community. Selling good and or services to financially contribute to a cause. Like donating to charity like homelessness.
Characteristics and SKILLS OF ENTREPRENEURS
Creative, ambitious, management skills, calculated risk, innovation, determination, courageous, resilient, delegation
BUSINESS SUCCESS
Assess business success through KPI = key performance indication
Net profit, percentage of market share number of sales
SOURCE OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
Innovation, market opportunities, changing customer needs, research and development, technological development, global market
innovation
Listening to needs of customers and creates a practical solution for consumers by a product or service By improving a current product or create a new
Market opportunities
Looking for gap in a particular market that don’t exist or is inadequate.
A product that is potentially wanted or needed that is not being supplied by other businesses
First identify it and produce a product that meets demands. Example is people wanting to shop online
Changing customer needs
Needs and wants from consumers change over time. Changes caused by trends, conditions and technology. This means a business has to be able to adapt to the quick and changing market.
Research and development
Investigate opportunities and develop products to meet customer needs
Aims to create new products, test it and sell it to consumers for profit and seek feed back. Process is expensive and carries risk for business.