Entrepreneurship Flashcards
What are entrepreneurs?
Strong driving force in our economy, who provides products and services, as well as creating employment
How are people forced into entrepreneurship?
Unemployment or other circumstances
Why do entrepreneurs need strong managerial skills?
Success of running their own business
What is good leadership?
Being able to work with and motivate teams to achieve their goals - invaluable asset
What do entrepreneurs see?
Potential success of possible ideas
Where does a large amount of entrepreneurship take place?
Informal trade - illegal
What is an intrapreneur?
Similar characteristics to an entrepreneur- innovation, persistence, goal driven
What is the difference between an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur?
Do not want to start own business and risk losing capital and assets
What do intrapreneurs prefer?
To work for a company and have a secure salary
What will a good manager recognise and reward?
An employee that is an immense asset
Name the entrepreneurial qualities
- Passionate visionaries
2 Creative Thinkers - Risk Takers
- Good leaders
- Independent Spirits
- Perseverance and Commitment
- Opportunist
What are passionate visionaries?
Believed they could do something that no one else has thought of or succeeded
What are creative thinkers?
Challenged the conventional way - innovating different aspects of traditional business
What are risk takers?
Positive attitude they took a chance at devoting their time, money, other resources - believe will work
What are good leaders?
Persuade others to buy into their dreams and help them realise it
What are independent spirits?
Like tk be in control and internally motivated
What is perseverance and commitment?
Work hard until they change part of the world
What are opportunists?
Happened to be in the right place at the right time - saw opening and took it
Who are the entrepreneurs?
Individuals with necessary knowledge and expertise to run a business successfully
POLC
Planning, organising, leading and control
Why is it important for entrepreneurs to recognise their shortcomings?
Hire others to fulfil those roles
Name the different types of entrepreneurs
- Social entrepreneur
- Technopreneur
- Ecopreneur
- Tenderpreneur
What is a social entrepreneur?
Want to solve social issues with products and services. Making a world a better placeb
What will social entrepreneurs start?
Non-profit company
What are technopreneurs?
Start with basic idea fro problem identified. Come up with nee ideas to be different or unique using technology
What are ecopreneur?
Driven to save the environment. Making profit important. Practices do not harm environment.
What is a tenderpreneur?
Obtain tenders from the government or from private business - provide specific services
What are entrepreneurial business?
Constantly innovating, taking risk and adapting their environmentz
What must entrepreneurial business constantly ensure?
They are on track with the business and goals
What is environmental scanning?
In touch with the world around them - remain successful players in specific industries
Name the benefits of environmental scanning
- Identifies threats - imminent
- Possible opportunities and gaps in market
- Finger on pulse of competitors
- Entrepreneurs create short term and long term strategies- protect business
Why is environmental scanning a 360° process?
Internal and external aspects - two types