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Entrepreneurial Mindset and Opportunity Recognition Flashcards

1
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a mental attitude or inclination

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mindset

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self-perception / ‘self-theory’ people hold about themselves.

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mindset

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character, intelligence and creativity are static givens.

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Fixed

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abilities can be developed through commitment and hard work.

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Growth

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A way of thinking that enables an individual to overcome challenges, be decisive, and accept responsibility for their outcomes.

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Entrepreneurial Mindset

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An attitude, disposition or mood best described as an inclination for change.

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Entrepreneurial Mindset

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The mind of an entrepreneur is always looking for novel ideas and innovations. The basic life cycle of any entrepreneurial product stems from the conception of an idea.

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Creative

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ability to think outside the box and improvise, when necessary, examine issues from multiple angles and provide multiple solutions and cultivate critical thinking.

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Adept at problem-solving

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explore multiple perspectives and present an innovative solution

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Innovative

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8 Essential Characteristics

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1) Focus on providing value instead of creating wealth, which is the result of a long process
2) Long-term vision
3) Personal growth and understanding the world around you
4) Understanding the power of habits and small wins
5) Time management and prioritization
6) Money management
7) Balancing freedom and responsibility
8) Associating with the right people

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a habit that is naturally innovative and craves being in the constant process of discovery

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Visionary

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a habit that puts them one step ahead of stress

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Early Riser

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a habit to increase efficiency

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Scheduled

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a habit that never undervalues the importance of sleep because they desire to be sharp, emotionally available, and on the ball in their career.

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Sleep

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a habit that creates and lives by simple yet practical routines and is most productive when not overwhelmed by stress. (Secret Weapon)

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Simplicity

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a habit that increases effectivity (writing lists, goals, or to vent frustrations)

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Journal

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a habit that needs to be fully engaged with the world around them.

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Curious

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a habit that believes in his abilities, is unafraid to explore unchartered territories, take risks, and make difficult decisions, to be successful.

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Confident

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a way of generating value through unique, novel, or desirable products, services, and even processes that were previously unexploited in a particular context

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Opportunity

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Three central characteristics related to opportunity

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Value
Novelty or Newness
Perceived Desirability

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21
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a value that has a capacity to generate profit

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Economic Value

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a value that helps a social need

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Social Value

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a value that the opportunity protects or preserves the environment

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Environmental Value

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a cognitive process that allows people to learn to be more effective at recognizing opportunities by changing the way they think about opportunities and how to recognize them.

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Opportunity Recognition

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a strategy that states thinking carefully about a problem by breaking it up into parts and looking at it in a more general way, to generate ideas on how certain products or services can be improved or made more innovative.

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Analytical Strategies

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a strategy that states using a stimulus to retrieve memories and make links/connections based on personal experiences that are relevant to the current problem.

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Search Strategies

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a strategy that states challenging deep-rooted assumptions and rejecting the tendency to assess new innovations and opportunities by our current systems and standards.

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Imagination-based Strategies

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a strategy that states breaking out of fixed mindsets to bring about creative insights.

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Habit-breaking Strategies

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a strategy that states consciously making links between concepts/ideas that are normally not associated with each other.

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Relationship-seeking Strategies

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a strategy that states enhancing and modifying existing ideas to create better alternatives and new possibilities.

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Development Strategies

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a strategy that states generating ideas with a group and building on each other’s ideas.

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Interpersonal Strategies

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a favorable opportunity that states that there is a market of customers.

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Valuable

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a favorable opportunity that states entrepreneurs offer some novelty that doesn’t currently exist for customers.

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Rare

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a favorable opportunity that creates barriers to entry to other entrepreneurs.

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Costly to Imitate

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a favorable opportunity that aligns with the skills and knowledge of the entrepreneur.

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Fit

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Assumes that opportunities exist independent of entrepreneurs and are waiting to be found.

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Find Pathway

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It is used when entrepreneurs are not quite sure what type of venture they want to start, so they engage in an active search to discover new opportunities.

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Search Pathway

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involves using what you have to uncover an opportunity that uniquely fits you, more about creating opportunities rather than simply uncovering them.

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Effectuate Pathway

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Entrepreneurs’ role is to take action and see how the market responds, recognize patterns, and learn from iteration to define the opportunity as it evolves.

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Effectuate Pathway

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One of the most complex, yet it can be the most value-creating approach.
It can uncover high-value opportunities because the entrepreneur is focusing on the unmet needs of customers – specifically, latent needs.

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Design Pathway

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The opportunity exists and is waiting to be found

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Find and Search Pathway

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The entrepreneur creates the opportunity

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Effectuate and Design Pathway

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Entrepreneurs should be alerted to scan the environment. (Pathway)

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Find and Search Pathway

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Entrepreneurs should take action, build, iterate

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Effectuate and Design Pathway

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The level of experience and prior knowledge needed to identify and potential value of opportunity is low

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Find and Search Pathway

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The level of experience and prior knowledge needed to identify and potential value of the opportunity is high

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Effectuate and Design Pathway

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Risky action orientation (Pathway)

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Find and Search Pathway

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Uncertain action orientation (Pathway)

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Effectuate and Design Pathway

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ability an entrepreneur must have to identify opportunities.

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Alertness

50
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The information gained from a combination of life and work experiences
Entrepreneurs knowledgeable in the market and industries, with a broad network, are more likely to recognize opportunities than those who have less experience.

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Prior Knowledge

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Process of identifying links or connections between unrelated things or events, then building on opportunities.
The patterns they perceive in the changes in technology, demographics, markets, government policies, suggest ideas for new products or services.

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Pattern Recognition

52
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production of ideas for something new

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Idea Generation

53
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production of ideas for something new and useful

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Creativity

54
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recognizing new and potentially useful ideas to generate economic value

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Opportunity Recognition

55
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an empirically proven method for identifying and selecting high-potential ideas that can be converted to new opportunities

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IDEATE Model

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IDEATE Model - Identifying problems that customers are trying to solve and identifying their underlying causes.

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Identify

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IDEATE Model - Actively searching for ideas in problem-rich environments.

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Discovery

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IDEATE Model - Taking ideas and expanding them to new applications or adding innovative twists.

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Enhance

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IDEATE Model - Studying change and analyzing future scenarios.

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Anticipate

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IDEATE Model - Defining and understanding a particular target market.

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Target

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IDEATE Model - Evaluating whether the solution solves a problem, size of the target market, degree of personal interest by the entrepreneur, and his skills and abilities.

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Evaluate

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