Ch 1-I entrepreneurs recognize opportunities Flashcards
What are a product and service and how do they relate to an entrepreneur
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
How does opportunity impact and an entrepreneur
Opportunity is all positive external events or circumstances that can help you get ahead of the competition
Entrepreneur
People will have their own business work for themselves and are called small business owners
Added value
when you do more with resources to where people are willing to pay more than what it calls for the resources
Free enterprise system
Economic system in which businesses are privately old and operate relatively free of government interference
Capital
Money or property owned or use in business
Voluntary exchange
Transaction between two parties who agreed to trade money for a product or service
Cost-benefit analysis
A decision making process in which the cost of taking an action or compared to the benefits
Opportunity cost
The value of what must be given up in order to obtain something else
Three benefits of free enterprise
- discourages entrepreneurs who waste resources by driving them out of business.
- It encourages entrepreneurs to use resources to satisfy consumer needs efficiently bar avoiding them with profit in wealth.
- Encourage competition between entrepreneurs.
Eight potential benefits of entrepreneurship
- Control over time
- For filament
- Independence / autonomy
- Creation /ownership
- Financial reward /control over compensation
- Control over working conditions
- Self-esteem
- Contribution to society
Six potential cost of entrepreneurship
- Business failure
- Obstacles
- Loneliness /isolation
- Financial insecurity
- Long hours /hard work
- strain on personal relationship
What is social entrepreneurship
A for-profit enterprise with the goals of achieving profitably and Attaining social returns
What part does social entrepreneurship play and today’s new businesses
It is less about profit then it is about social and impact
Five ways to find opportunities to start a business
- Using a new technology to produce a new product
- using an existing technology to produce a new product
- Using in the existing technology to produce an old product in a new way
- Finding a new supply of resources that might enable the entrepreneur to produce a product more economically
- Developing a new market for an existing product