Section 4 Flashcards

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Entrepreneur

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A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk

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The goals of an entrepreneur

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Includes achievement of independence , financial success, social change

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Intra-preneurship

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When entrepreneurship is describing activities within a firm or large organization

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Seniority

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Measure for the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization as compared to other members , with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members long

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Reasons for starting a business

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Own bosses, greater possibility of achieving sig. Financial rewards than working for someone else, provides ability to be involved in total operation of business, offer prestige of being erosion in charge, gives opportunity to build equity

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What is equity

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Overall worth of what you are

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Benefits of small organization

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Greater flexibility and capacity to respond promptly to industry or community developments

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Greater flexibility

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Able to innovate and create new products and services more rapidly and creatively than larger companies mired in beuracracy , make decisions in days, well suited to internet marketing (find specialized niches), modify products and services in response to unique customer needs (knows customer base better)

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Bureaucracy

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Structure and regulations in place to control activity usually in large organizations and govt. operations

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Entrepreneurial spirit

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People who are fully engaged and doing what they want, atmosphere of fun and excitement that is generated when ppl. Work together to create an opportunity for greater success , inspire to do best

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Startup business

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New organization or business venture

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Independence

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ability to be own boss, operate independently, make own decisions, take own risks, reap own benefit s

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Valley of death

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When you are so far in debt you can’t get out of it, failure of independent company because of lack of funds

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Entrepreneurship and the economy

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Creativity and entrepreneurship are needed to combine inputs in profitable ways resulting in large scale economic growth and development

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Equilibrium models

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Central to mainstream economics and exclude entrepreneurship, use economic data to estimate how an economy might react to changes in a policy technology or other external factors

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Business models

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The particular way in which business organization ensures that it generates income

17
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In entrepreneurship who is boss

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Consumers

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Make own decisions writhing constraints of

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Economic and environmental factors

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Startup must have people who

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Passionate compulsive desire to succeed

20
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Entrepreneurship results in either

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New organization or revitalizing mature organizations in response to perceived opportunity