Ch 1-I entrepreneurs recognize opportunities Flashcards

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What are a product and service and how do they relate to an entrepreneur

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The product is something that exist in nature or is made by human industry usually to be so where is a service is in tangible.
The selection of your product or service and it’s branding will be a critical part of your marketing mix

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How does opportunity impact and an entrepreneur

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Opportunity is all positive external events or circumstances that can help you get ahead of the competition

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3
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Entrepreneur

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People will have their own business work for themselves and are called small business owners

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4
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Added value

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when you do more with resources to where people are willing to pay more than what it calls for the resources

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5
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Free enterprise system

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Economic system in which businesses are privately old and operate relatively free of government interference

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6
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Capital

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Money or property owned or use in business

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7
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Voluntary exchange

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Transaction between two parties who agreed to trade money for a product or service

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8
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Cost-benefit analysis

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A decision making process in which the cost of taking an action or compared to the benefits

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9
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Opportunity cost

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The value of what must be given up in order to obtain something else

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10
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Three benefits of free enterprise

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  1. discourages entrepreneurs who waste resources by driving them out of business.
  2. It encourages entrepreneurs to use resources to satisfy consumer needs efficiently bar avoiding them with profit in wealth.
  3. Encourage competition between entrepreneurs.
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11
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Eight potential benefits of entrepreneurship

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  1. Control over time
  2. For filament
  3. Independence / autonomy
  4. Creation /ownership
  5. Financial reward /control over compensation
  6. Control over working conditions
  7. Self-esteem
  8. Contribution to society
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Six potential cost of entrepreneurship

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  1. Business failure
  2. Obstacles
  3. Loneliness /isolation
  4. Financial insecurity
  5. Long hours /hard work
  6. strain on personal relationship
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13
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What is social entrepreneurship

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A for-profit enterprise with the goals of achieving profitably and Attaining social returns

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14
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What part does social entrepreneurship play and today’s new businesses

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It is less about profit then it is about social and impact

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15
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Five ways to find opportunities to start a business

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  1. Using a new technology to produce a new product
  2. using an existing technology to produce a new product
  3. Using in the existing technology to produce an old product in a new way
  4. Finding a new supply of resources that might enable the entrepreneur to produce a product more economically
  5. Developing a new market for an existing product
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16
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What are two sources of ideas for a new business and how do they work

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Idea generation and opportunity recognition

17
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For ways to train your mind to recognize business opportunities

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  1. What frustrates me the most when I’m trying to buy something
  2. What product or service would really make my life better
  3. What makes me annoyed or angry
  4. What product or service would take away my aggravation.
18
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Five ways to use your imagination in forming a new business

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  1. What is the one thing I would like to have more than anything else
  2. what would it look like ?what would it’s other attributes to be like?
  3. what would I do
  4. What innovative product or service idea have I been mulling over in my mind
  5. What problem have a encountered in every day life and thought : there has to be a better way to do this?
19
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Four ways to start your own business

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  1. Buy an existing company
  2. Secure franchise rights
  3. License to purchase critical technology or methods
  4. Inherit a company or be hired as a manager
20
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What is the role of profit in the business

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Profit is the sign that an entrepreneur has added value to the resources he or she is using

21
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How does profit result from an entrepreneur’s choices

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And entrepreneur choices directly affect how much profit the business make

22
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Seven rules for a successful business

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  1. Recognize an opportunit
  2. evaluate it with critical thinking
  3. Build a team
  4. Write
  5. Gather resources
  6. Decide ownership
  7. Create wealth