Are You Cut Out to Be a Successful Entrepreneur? ABSTRACT First‚ there was an interview with a successful entrepreneur. Second‚ there was a talk on entrepreneurship by a guest speaker‚ Mr. Azmi Ahmad (the CEO of Skali.com) and later‚ an "elevator speech" by fellow students on various issues related to entrepreneurship. This collective information and some reading on entrepreneurship journals‚ books and articles have brought to the idea on writing this paper‚ towards certain perspective‚ on successful
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Drive to Achieve The drive for achievements; and entrepreneur must be greatly motivated in accomplishing his/her goals or objectives. He/she should posses a psychological drive to achieve things that he/she set for him/her self as a target to take in a given time. This drive could make him/her self as a person that has a result oriented views in life. One of the entrepreneur who best described in this entrepreneurial skills is Steve Paul “ Steve” Jobs. He is best known as the co-founder‚ chairman
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The Role of the Entrepreneur An entrepreneur is an owner of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative‚ this is applied to persons who are willing to help launch a new venture or enterprise and accept full responsibility for a company’s output. The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of a lower and into a high productivity and greater economic yields. Occupying the central position in a market economy‚ entrepreneurs are instigators of growth and progress and are pivotal
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Entrepreneurs are innovators or developer who recognizes and seize opportunities; converts those opportunities into a workable/marketable idea; adds value through time‚ effort‚ money or skills; assumes the risk of the competitive marketplace to implement these ideas and realizes the rewards from these efforts (Kuratko‚ 2009). Based on this explanation‚ we can assume that entrepreneurs are people who take risks and efforts to venture into a new business. In order for them to take such risks‚ they
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Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur 1. They are self-motivated Successful entrepreneurs do not need someone who holds them accountable or forces them to be efficient and productive. Unfortunately‚ without a manager‚ many people cannot take their business past the planning stages. It takes hard work to create your own business; most people need someone who forces them to keep working. Moreover‚ when people do not have someone to hold them accountable‚ they may let their work’s quality
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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: Women entrepreneurs may be defined as a woman or a group of women who initiate‚ organize and run a business enterprise. In terms of Schumpeterian concept of innovative entrepreneurs‚ women who innovate‚ initiate or adopt a business activity are called business entrepreneur. It is the group of women or single women running an enterprise or company in order to earn profit. Now days because of women empowerment women are stepping-stone into the industries and are taking the
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Best Practice BY DANIEL J. ISENBERG The Global Entrepreneur A new breed of entrepreneur is thinking across borders – from day one. FOR A CENTURY AND MORE‚ companies have ventured abroad only after establishing themselves at home. Moreover‚ when they have looked overseas‚ they haven’t ventured too far afield‚ initially. Consumer healthcare company Johnson & Johnson set up its first foreign subsidiary in Montreal in 1919 – 33 years after its founding in 1886. Sony‚ established in 1946‚ took 11
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. . . . .5 1� Economic Function of the Entrepreneur � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 6 Assessment 1 Characteristics of the Entrepreneurial Firm Checklist . . . . . . . . .8 “Wall Street” (1987) Gordon Gekko: Address to Teldar Paper Stockholders . .12 Assessment 2 Motivation for Entrepreneurial Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 2� Entrepreneurial Qualities � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 14 Behavioral Characteristics of Entrepreneurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Anita Roddick‚ The Body Shop‚ Madame CJ Walker‚ First female African American millionaire (hair care products)‚ Coco Chanel‚ fashion and signature fragrances‚ and Estee Lauder‚ Beauty products. This is a very small list of a few famous female entrepreneurs throughout history. These women started their own businesses with the passion and desire to help others or provide a product they felt was needed. Females have difficulty climbing the corporate ladder and it is just as difficult‚ if not more
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Extraordinaire‚ Bass‚ B Baron‚ R. A. and Shane‚ S. A. (2008). Entrepreneurship: A process perspective‚ 2nd ed. Thomson South-Western. Burns‚ J. M. (1978). Leadership. New York: Harper and Row. Brockhaus‚ R. and Horwitz‚ P. (1986) ‘The Psychology of the Entrepreneur’ in Sexton‚ D. and Smilor‚ R. (eds.)‚ The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship‚ Ballinger. Comfort‚ M. H. (1964). Conrad H. Hilton Hotelier. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison & Company‚ Inc. Chell‚ E. (1999) ‘The Entrepreneurial Personality: Past‚ Present
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