entrepreneur
(noun)
A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
Examples of entrepreneur in the following topics:
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Key Characteristics of Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs must be willing to accept risk and failure.
- Entrepreneurs often possess immense focus and energy.
- Focus: The entrepreneur must be able to maintain the vision of the company with unwavering diligence.
- Ironically, there are many successful entrepreneurs who get bored easily.
- Passion: Entrepreneurs must have a desire to succeed in a business venture under their own initiative.
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The Demographics of Modern Entrepreneurs
- Entrepreneurs are catalysts for economic change.
- There are entrepreneurs in all demographics and walks of life.
- Organizations have even risen to service the ever-younger, emerging entrepreneurs.
- The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an American nonprofit organization that provides entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, and resources that support each stage of their business's development and growth.
- Identify the demographic trends in modern entrepreneurs, and the factors which influenced them.
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Trends in Business Owners: Age and Gender
- Entrepreneurs are catalysts for economic change.
- There are entrepreneurs in all demographics and walks of life.
- Organizations have even risen to service the ever-younger sector entrepreneurs.
- The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an American non-profit organization that provides entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentor-ship, and resources that support each stage of their business's development and growth.
- Explain how new technologies are allowing more young people and women to become entrepreneurs
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Introduction
- Is an entrepreneur ultimately born or made?
- We suggest you meet as many entrepreneurs as you can to see if this is how you want to spend your life; then decide if you want to train under these entrepreneurs as an apprentice.
- Ironically, we have encountered many successful entrepreneurs who get bored easily...
- However, it should be noted that a true entrepreneur would never rely on a survey to determine how worthy or ready they are to become an entrepreneur.
- A true entrepreneur would simply begin implementing his or her start up idea.
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The business eco-system: Your path to finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
- People who start their own businesses are known as entrepreneurs.
- So, if you think that you are unlikely to be an entrepreneur, please realize it is possible for you to become an entrepreneur and to, potentially, even become a very successful one.
- Some of the most common characteristics of an entrepreneur include the following attributes:
- Ironically, we have encountered many successful entrepreneurs who get bored easily...
- Spirituality: We have found that successful entrepreneurs have often devoted time to spirituality development.
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The Goals of Entrepreneurs
- Most new entrepreneurs help the local economy.
- Most new entrepreneurs help the local economy.
- Entrepreneurs are their own bosses.
- Entrepreneurs are their own bosses.
- Most new entrepreneurs help the local economy.
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Definition
- Entrepreneurs commonly underestimate the impact of competition.
- Entrepreneurs who do underestimate the impact of competition are failing to consider the fact that potential buyers are currently managing without the entrepreneur's product.
- An entrepreneur opening a new restaurant in proximity to existing restaurants may be offering a heretofore unavailable national cuisine, but the entrepreneur still has many competitors.
- Substitutes often exist for the entrepreneur's product.
- Unfortunately for the entrepreneur, it is often the follow-on firms that are successful.
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Methods of evaluating competitors
- An understanding of the industry and the key success factors for the industry allows the entrepreneur to assess the performance of competitive firms.
- In many markets competitors will already be known to the entrepreneur.
- The entrepreneur will need to collect more detailed information on his/her most immediate competitors.
- Having collected information, the entrepreneur is in a position to make comparisons between his/her firm and the firm's immediate competitors.
- The entrepreneur should pay particular attention to the management capabilities of his or her own firm and competing firms.
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Harnessing technology for global business success
- As the case in the beginning of this chapter demonstrates there are economic, social, and political factors an entrepreneur faces when establishing their business.
- For an entrepreneur, the Internet is a great tool for doing business both internationally and domestically.
- For entrepreneurs facing this issue, phone, fax and SMS text messages are alternative ways in which to do business.
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Entrepreneurship and the Economy
- Early economic theory, however did not pay proper attention to the entrepreneur.
- Joseph Schumpeter and Israel Kirzner argued that entrepreneurs do not tolerate equilibrium.
- In this treatment the entrepreneur was an implied but unspecified actor, but it is consistent with the concept of the entrepreneur being the agent of x-efficiency.
- Different scholars have described entrepreneurs as, among other things, bearing risk.
- For Schumpeter, the entrepreneur did not bear risk: the capitalist did.