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Entrepreneurship
Chapter Seven
McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2013 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Learning Objectives
LO1 Describe why people become entrepreneurs and what it takes, personally.
LO2 Summarize how to assess opportunities to start a new company.
LO3 Identify common causes of success and failure.
LO4 Discuss common management challenges.
LO5 Explain how to increase your chances of success, including good business planning.
LO6 Describe how managers of large companies can foster entrepreneurship.
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Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship The pursuit of lucrative opportunities by
enterprising individuals. creating new systems, resources, or
processes to produce new goods or services and/or serve new markets
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Some Myths About Entrepreneurship
1. Entrepreneurs are born, not made.
2. Anyone can start a business
3. Entrepreneurs are gamblers
4. Entrepreneurs want the whole show to themselves
5. Entrepreneurs are their own bosses and completely independent.
6. Entrepreneurs work longer and harder than managers in big companies.
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Some Myths About Entrepreneurship
7. Entrepreneurs experience a great deal of stress and pay a high price.
8. Start a business and fail and you’ll never raise money again.
9. Money is the most important start-up ingredient.
10.Entrepreneurs should be young and energetic.
11. Entrepreneurs are motivated solely by the quest for the almighty dollar.
12.Entrepreneurs seek power and control over others.
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What Business Should You Start?
Franchising An entrepreneurial alliance between a
franchisor (an innovator who has created at least one successful store and wants to grow) and a franchisee (a partner who manages a new store of the same type in a new location).
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What Does it Take, Personally?
1. Commitment and determination
2. Leadership
3. Opportunity obsession
4. Tolerance of risk, ambiguity, and uncertainty
5. Creativity, self-reliance, and ability to adapt
6. Motivation to excel
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Common Management Challenges
You might not enjoy itSurvival is difficultGrowth creates new challengesIt’s hard to delegateMisuse of fundsPoor controlsMortality
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Increasing Your Chances of Success
Opportunity analysis A description of the good or service, an
assessment of the opportunity, an assessment of the entrepreneur, specification of activities and resources needed to translate your idea into a viable business, and your source(s) of capital.
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Planning
Business plan A formal planning step
that focuses on the entire venture and describes all the elements involved in starting it.
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