Entrepreneurship Flashcards

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What are entrepreneurs?

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Strong driving force in our economy, who provides products and services, as well as creating employment

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How are people forced into entrepreneurship?

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Unemployment or other circumstances

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Why do entrepreneurs need strong managerial skills?

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Success of running their own business

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What is good leadership?

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Being able to work with and motivate teams to achieve their goals - invaluable asset

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What do entrepreneurs see?

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Potential success of possible ideas

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Where does a large amount of entrepreneurship take place?

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Informal trade - illegal

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What is an intrapreneur?

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Similar characteristics to an entrepreneur- innovation, persistence, goal driven

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What is the difference between an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur?

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Do not want to start own business and risk losing capital and assets

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What do intrapreneurs prefer?

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To work for a company and have a secure salary

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What will a good manager recognise and reward?

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An employee that is an immense asset

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Name the entrepreneurial qualities

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  1. Passionate visionaries
    2 Creative Thinkers
  2. Risk Takers
  3. Good leaders
  4. Independent Spirits
  5. Perseverance and Commitment
  6. Opportunist
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What are passionate visionaries?

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Believed they could do something that no one else has thought of or succeeded

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What are creative thinkers?

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Challenged the conventional way - innovating different aspects of traditional business

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What are risk takers?

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Positive attitude they took a chance at devoting their time, money, other resources - believe will work

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What are good leaders?

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Persuade others to buy into their dreams and help them realise it

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What are independent spirits?

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Like tk be in control and internally motivated

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What is perseverance and commitment?

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Work hard until they change part of the world

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What are opportunists?

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Happened to be in the right place at the right time - saw opening and took it

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Who are the entrepreneurs?

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Individuals with necessary knowledge and expertise to run a business successfully

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POLC

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Planning, organising, leading and control

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Why is it important for entrepreneurs to recognise their shortcomings?

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Hire others to fulfil those roles

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Name the different types of entrepreneurs

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  1. Social entrepreneur
  2. Technopreneur
  3. Ecopreneur
  4. Tenderpreneur
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What is a social entrepreneur?

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Want to solve social issues with products and services. Making a world a better placeb

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What will social entrepreneurs start?

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Non-profit company

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What are technopreneurs?

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Start with basic idea fro problem identified. Come up with nee ideas to be different or unique using technology

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What are ecopreneur?

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Driven to save the environment. Making profit important. Practices do not harm environment.

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What is a tenderpreneur?

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Obtain tenders from the government or from private business - provide specific services

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What are entrepreneurial business?

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Constantly innovating, taking risk and adapting their environmentz

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What must entrepreneurial business constantly ensure?

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They are on track with the business and goals

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What is environmental scanning?

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In touch with the world around them - remain successful players in specific industries

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Name the benefits of environmental scanning

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  1. Identifies threats - imminent
  2. Possible opportunities and gaps in market
  3. Finger on pulse of competitors
  4. Entrepreneurs create short term and long term strategies- protect business
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Why is environmental scanning a 360° process?

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Internal and external aspects - two types

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Name the two types of environmental scanning

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  1. Before stating business
  2. Continuous
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What is useful to look at in environmental scanning before starting a business?

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  1. Viability of product/service
  2. Strength of competitors
  3. Size of potential market - absorb a new player
  4. Stability of resources: suppliers, financiers, staff, premises, fellow investors
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What is continuous environmental scanning?

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Ongoing basis through analysing each environments - tools

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Tools for micro

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SWOT, value chain analysis

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Tool for market

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SWOT, Porters

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Tool for macro

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SWOT, PESTLE

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Why should planning take place?

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Opportunity, has an idea and wants to build on it

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Why must one think during planning?

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Strategise for short term and long term

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Name the three planning tools

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  1. Smarter goals
  2. Business plan
  3. Action plan
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Specific

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Hols must be definable

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Measurability

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Ability to quantify the goal

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Achievable

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Ability of that business to reach the goal

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Realistic

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The bigger picture.

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Time related

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Specify when ur needs to be reached - considered succefyl

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Ethical

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Ethics and morals

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Recordable

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Needs to be recorded. Commitment and accountability- bold statement in writing

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Swot analysis

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identify strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats

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Where is swot included?

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Business plan

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What is a business plan?

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Put every aspect of business
Financial budgeting to marketing strategy

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What is an action plan?

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Implement and get the project done

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What does an action plan specify?

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Individual tasks, when they have to be done, who is taking responsibility

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When does resourcing take place?

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After environmental scanning and planning - successful

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What is it important to do in resourcing?

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Mobilise all the resources

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What does resourcing include?

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  1. Fellow investors (size/ownership)
  2. Raw materials, stock (trading)
  3. Capital items - machinery, equipment
  4. Finances - loans, financial institutions
  5. Staff - Employ key staff / double up
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When does preparation take place?

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Not only initials days, also ongoing and sustainable trading

58
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When is the hive of activity?

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The final days/weeks before opening
Depend on size of business

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What details must be taken care of?

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Premises, marketing, ordering of stock, raw materials, administrative issues

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What never stops in an entrepreneurial business?

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The momentum

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What must constantly happen to keep it from going out?

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Innovation and Actuon

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What happens during action?

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New ideas, new markets, new processes, nee products help business grow

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What happens during evaluation?

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Evaluate and get feedback

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What is it important to take a business plan from?

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Planning stage to action stage

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Define business plan

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Tools with multiple uses and indispensable to the successful entrepreneur

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Name the value of the business plan

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  1. Different types and sizes of business - require different types business plans
  2. Allows you to market your ideas - creative and add own distinctive touches
  3. Intrapreneurship and refocus is required. Flexible document - adapt to the growth and development
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What are timelines?

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Simplest tools to use - utilise one variable by arranging past + expected future events (chronological order)

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What does timelines make easier?

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Visual picture of what is happening - simplifies the planning process

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What is a Gantt Chart?

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Sophisted form of timeline - introduce other variables

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What does other variables?

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Responsibilities members, sub sections of the project

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When is Gantt chart used?

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Project management - drawn by hand / internet site

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Advantages of a Gantt Chart

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  1. Includes information on timeline (chronological order)
  2. Estimate time needed - each
  3. See which activities run simultaneously
  4. Inter-relatedness or tasks
  5. Colour-coding and key - more information
  6. Adjustments made - see effects on other tasks
  7. Show responsibilities each member
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How to construct Gantt Chart?

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  1. Graph paper/blocks
  2. Mark time on horizontal axis (allow increments)
  3. Vertical axis - tasks and columns - person responsible
  4. Fill bars - expected time
  5. Link dependent tasks
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When is it easy to put the plan into action?

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After constructing Gantt Chart

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Planning steps

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  1. Set goals
  2. Gather information
  3. Analyse assumptions - planning based
  4. Choose plan of action
  5. Plan detail
  6. Action
  7. Review
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Why is it important to track progress on Gantt?

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Problems at any stage

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How to redo Gantt Chant steps?

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  1. Go and charge the template on wall with movable magnetic pieces
  2. On a computer and repainting it as changes are made
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What is the word on structure?

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3×2 which breaks down the elements of work I need to be done on a specific project – resource allocation in casting can be done for each specific element

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What is the advantage breakdown structure?

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Dividing into a hierarchical structure

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What can work breakdown structure be used on?

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Simple project board to break up tasks into single in

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What is the between a Gantt chart and a work breakdown structure?

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Go onto chart is more concerned about the time allocation and sequential scheduling of work – to meet a deadline. Work breakdown structure isolate various elements in order to assign roles and wake up budgets and resource allocation.
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