Chap 1 Flashcards
Define entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the art of identifying viable business opportunities and
mobilizing resources to convert those opportunities into a successful
enterprise through creativity, innovation, risk taking and progressive
imagination.
whats the role of entrepreneurs in economic development ?
- wealth generation
- generation of employment opportunities
- inspire others towards entrepreneurship
- balanced regional development
what are the characteristics needed to be an entrepreneur?
- young educated people
. 2. someone who has developed an innovation - the excluded
what are the qualities that a successful entrepreneur should have ?
- opportunity seeking
- preserving making efforts towards the completion of a goal
- risk taking
4.demanding for efficiency and quality - information-seeking
- setting a goal
- planning
- persuasion and networking
- building self confidence
- listening to others
- demonstrating leadership
whats the importance of risk taking
- building self confidence
-creating a feeling of leadership - creates strong motivating to complete a job well
what is general management skills
These are skills required to organize
the physical and financial resources needed to run the venture.
what is strategy skills
An ability to consider the business as a whole, to
understand how it fits within its market place, how it can organize
itself to deliver value to its customers, and the ways in which it does
this better than its competitors.
what are planning skills
An ability to consider what the future might offer,
how it will impact on the business and what needs to be done to
prepare for it now
what are marketing skills
ablity to see how they satisfy the customer’s needs and
why the customer finds them attractive
what are financial skills
An ability to manage money; to be able to keep track of expenditure and to monitor cash-flow,
what are project management skills
ability to organize projects, to set
specific objectives, to set schedules and to ensure that the necessary
resources are in the right plat of the right time.
what are time management skills
An ability to use time productively, to be able to priorities important jobs and to get things done to schedule
what are people management skills
An entrepreneurial
venture also needs the support of people from outside the organization
such as customers, suppliers and investors
what are communication skills
ability to use spoken and written language to express ideas and inform others
what are leadership skills
An ability to inspire people to work in a specific way