THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS Flashcards
It is a step-by-step procedure for establishing any kind of business that an entrepreneur has to undergo.
Entrepreneurial Process
What are the four aspects of the entrepreneurial process?
Opportunity Spotting and Assessment
Developing a Business Plan
Determining the capital needed
Running the business
It is the beginning of the process and is considered the most difficult.
Opportunity Spotting and Assessment
Entrepreneurs should formulate this when they have already spotted and assessed the opportunities for a market.
Business Plan
It is a comprehensive paper that details the marketing, operational, human resource, financial, strategic direction, and tactics of the business.
Business Plan
It is mandatory in the entrepreneurial process where you calculate the resources needed to establish the business and compare this against the entrepreneur’s current resources.
Determining the Capital Needed
It is the part where the entrepreneur uses the resources allocated for the new venture.
Running the Business
All aspects of the business plan should not be critically observed from operations, marketing, sales, human resources, finance, and strategy implementation. (True or False)
False
What are the 3 s of opportunity spotting and assessment?
Seeking, Screening, and Seizing
It is an entrepreneur’s business idea that can potentially become a commercial product or service in the future.
Opportunity
It is the most difficult of all due to the number of options that the entrepreneur will have to choose from. It involves the development of new ideas from various sources.
Seeking the opportunity
It is the process of cautiously selecting the best opportunity. The selection will depend on the entrepreneur’s internal and external intent.
Screening the opportunity
This is the pushing through with the chosen opportunity.
Seizing the opportunity
What are the 4 macro-environmental sources?
Steepled
Industry
New Discovery of Knowledge
Futuristic Opportunities
This is mnemonic for sociocultural, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical, and demographic factors. This represents the general environment where an entrepreneur identifies business opportunities from
and where the future business is about to operate.
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