Entrepreneurship Flashcards
a strategic document that outlines a company’s goals, strategies for achieving them, and the time frame for their achievement.
Business Plan
covers the key points about your business without delving into every single detail the way a lengthy, full-featured business plan does.
Dehydrated Plan
A full business plan that provides an in-depth analysis of the critical factors that will determine a firm’s success or failure, along with all the underlying assumptions.
comprehensive plan
a business owned and managed by a single individual
sole proprietorship
a business organization owned by two or more persons who agree on a specific division of responsibilities and profits
Partnership
Cash flow activities that include the cash effects of transactions that create revenues and expenses and thus enter into the determination of net income.
operating activities
is an artificial being created by operation of law, having the rights of succession and the powers, attributes and properties expressly authorized by law or incident to its existence
corporation
Includes cash transactions involving the purchase and sale of long-term assets and current investments
investing activities
Cash flow activities that include (a) obtaining cash from issuing debt and repaying the amounts borrowed and (b) obtaining cash from stockholders, repurchasing shares, and paying dividends.
financing activities
Evaluating an organization’s financial statements to determine the profitability of the organization, a division within the organization or a specific event or project.
Financial Analysis
Company’s ability to generate an adequate return on invested capital.
profitability
An approach where planning and baselines are established early in the life cycle of the initiative in order to maximize control and minimize risk.
predictive approach
This start-up entrepreneur starts a business knowing that their vision can change the world. They attract investors who think and encourage people who think out of the box.
scalable startup entrepreneurship
A new venture that is trying to discover a profitable business model for future success.
startup
is when a company has a finite amount of life cycles. This type of entrepreneurship is for an advanced professional who knows how to sustain innovation.
large company entrepreneurship
Small businesses, often family owned, that intend to serve the local community, make a living, and focus less on growth than scalable start-ups.
small business entrepreneurship
sees entrepreneurship as a mindset and a method that needs practice and used only when the future is unpredictable and not certain
creation approach
the process of sourcing innovative solutions to social and environmental problems
social entrepreneurship
This type of entrepreneur focuses on new ideas and innovation, trying to change the way people go about their lives, and to change society.
innovative entrepreneurship
This type of entrepreneur uses hard work and bootstrapping to start build a business.
hustler entrepreneurship
This type of entrepreneur spends more time researching an idea before pursuing the venture, focusing more on data and facts, versus intuition.
researcher entrepreneurship
This type of entrepreneur buys existing businesses and tries to grow them further.
buyer entrepreneurship
process of promoting innovation within the structure of an existing organization
intrapreneurship
Four Pathways to opportunity identification
find, search, effectuate, design
A pathway that assumes that opportunities exist independent of entrepreneurs and are waiting to be found.
find pathway
A pathway 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.
search pathway
A pathway that involves using what you have (skills, knowledge, abilities) to uncover an opportunity that uniquely fits you.
effectuate pathway
A pathway that can uncover high-value opportunities because the entrepreneur is focusing on unmet needs of customers, specifically latent needs.
design pathway
A special set of observational and thinking skills that help entrepreneurs identify good opportunities; the ability to notice things that have been overlooked, without actually launching a formal search for opportunities, and the motivation to look for opportunities.
entrepreneurial alertness
design thinking process
empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test
This is a cross between and innovator and a hustler, trying to improve on existing products in the marketplace.
Imitator Entrepreneurship
outlines the need the firm will fill, the operations of the business, its components and functions, as well as the expected revenues and expenses
business model
A type of producer that changes the shapes or forms of materials so that they will be useful to consumers
manufacturer
a person or organization that helps another organization sell its goods and services to customers
distributor
a channel intermediary that sells mainly to consumers
retailer
A business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company’s goods or services in a particular area
franchise
Traditional businesses with actual stores in which trade or retail occurs, it does not exist solely on the internet.
Brick-and-mortar
model by which a company integrates both offline (bricks) and online (clicks) presences
EX: Apple, Barnes & Noble
Bricks-and-clicks business model
selling to customers directly, at home or at work, rather than through a retail establishment or other intermediary
direct sales
jobs dealing with people rather than computer screens or voice-response systems
high touch
2 or more family members with financial control on the company
family owned
based on nine building blocks, the business model canvas is an entrepreneurial tool that enables entrepreneurs to test hypotheses as they design, develop, articulate, challenge, invent, and pivot their strategic business model. The building blocks referenced above include customer segments, value proposition, channels, customer relations, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships, and cost structure.
business model canvas
driving the cost of a product down to its lowest point while still making a profit.
nickel-and-dime
revenue model offers users a basic service for free and then charges a premium for upgrades or advanced features
freemium
electronic business or exchange conducted over the internet
e-commerce
In this business model, a customer pays a recurring monthly payment in exchange for a product or service.
subscription
business model will collect information and then sell that under a brand name.
Aggregator
an e-commerce site where many different retailers sell goods
online marketplace
Online content may be “free” but generate revenue through ads
hidden revenue
companies sell or license the data they collect as a form of revenue.
data licensing/data selling
- partner company that has specialization in doing non-core business activities such as advertising, digital marketing, PR, even janitorial and security.
agency-based
an internet-based marketing strategy in which a business rewards individuals or other businesses (affiliates) for each visitor or customer the affiliate sends to its website
affiliate marketing
a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn’t keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a store sells a product, it purchases the item from a third party and has it shipped directly to the customer. As a result, the merchant never sees or handles the product.
dropshipping
A method of direct distribution in which individuals act as independent distributors for a manufacturer or private-label marketer.
network marketing
inviting broad communities of people - customers, employees, independent scientists and researchers, and even the public at large - into the new product innovation process
crowdsourcing
A digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly
blockchain
fully-automated, low-cost digital workflows using web interfaces
low touch
the strategy of subsidizing an offering in order to make money on a complement of that offering
razor blade model
A business with mainly social objectives that reinvests most of its profits into benefiting society rather than maximising returns to owners
social enterprise
a statement of how the sales offering will add value to the prospect’s business by meeting a need or providing an opportunity
customer value proposition
the network of suppliers and partners that make the business model work
key partners
A long-term partnership between two or more companies established to help each company build competitive market advantages.
strategic alliance