BUS1 Flashcards

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What are the motives for setting up a business?

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More control over working life
Fulfil potential
Escape uninteresting job
Declare to pursue a hobby
Satisfaction
Be own boss
Earn income
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Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs

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Passionate, getting things right for the customer
Driven
Self starting
Calculated risk taker
Multi tasker
Resilient
Focused
Leadership
Initiative
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What are the risks of setting up a business?

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Unlimited liability
Loss of pay from previous job
Stigma of failure

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What are the rewards of starting up?

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Potential for significant income and profit
Satisfaction
Freedom of decision making
Control over working life

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What are sources of government support?

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BIS: dept for business, innovation and skills
DirectGov: advice on tax and business laws
Tax incentives: tax breaks for investments
Other support: online, business networks, professional firms

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What is an opportunity cost?

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The cost of missing out on the next best alternative

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How do opportunity costs affect start ups?

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Resources are limited

Significant decisions about spending become risky due to this

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What are common sources of business ideas?

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Brainstorming
Business experience
Personal experience
Copying an existing idea
Invention and innovation
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What makes a good business idea?

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Something that solves a problem
Cheaper way of providing existing product
Clearly focused on needs of the customer

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Patents?

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Must be based on inventions that are new, innovative
Given up to 20 years protection
Expensive

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Trademarks?

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Identifies a product in the eye of a customer
Name, logo, symbol
Prevent others from using something similar
10 years

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Copyright?

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Important source of protection for any startup in creative or knowledge industries
Lasts for 70 years after authors death

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What is added value?

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Difference between price of finished product and costs of inputs used in making it

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If you add value, can you higher your prices?

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Yes

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what is a niche market

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a smaller, specialist part of a larger market where customers have specific wants and needs organic food produce

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what are advantages of niche markets

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better to add value
customer needs are defined
charge higher prices
encounter less competition

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disadvantages of added value

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customers more demanding
competitors have an established customer base
less able to benefit from cost savings with operating at a higher scale

18
Q

what is a franchise

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the business format which a franchisor allows a franchisee to use under licence

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what are the two ways to segment a market

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geographic based on the countries, reigons

demographic based on class, age, gender

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what is market research

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information that helps explain the structure size and nature of the market

21
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what is a national market

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where customers are spread throughout the country or over a large geographical area with the same product offered everywhere

cadburys

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What is demand

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how much customers are prepared and willing to buy at a given price

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three ways to measure the market

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market size
market growth
market share

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advantages of a limited company

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limited liability
easier to raise finance
stable form of structure

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disadvantages of a limited company
greater admin costs | public disclosure of company information
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what does limited liability do
provides the entrepreneur with significant protection
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internal sources of finance
personal sources retained profit sales of assets
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external sources of finance
``` share capital friends and family loan overdraft grants trade credit factoring ```
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factors affecting the amount and choice of finance
control cost amount time and flexibility
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what is a location
the physical place from which a business is operated and controlled
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benefits of a home based setup
very low cost little travelling lower business risk freedom of what to wear
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drawbacks of home based setup
``` requires greater self discipline work often interrupted work never goes away lonley poor impression??? ```
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why does cost matter in choosing the location for a startup?
raising breakeven output low cost doesnt always mean best try to minimise initially share location with other startups
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why does proximity to market matter in the location for a startup?
needs to be suitable cut distribution cost depends on nature of the startup products
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why does infrastructure matter when locating a start up?
could rely on external services | ability to recruit right employees may be affected by local infrastructure
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why does personal and other qualitative issues matter when locating a startup
location help create USP which could help attract customers and stagg fit the culture of the start up
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what is a consultant
an individual or business external to the business that provides specific advice and service
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What is an entrepreneur?
Someone who sets up a business