Salient Features of Entrepreneurship

Cards (7)

  • Entrepreneurship

    • Art of Correct Practices
    • Wealth-creating ventures
    • Providing Valuable Goods and Services
    • Opening and Managing Self-owned Business
    • Risk-Taking Adventure
  • Ladder of Loyalty
    • Advocate
    • Customer
    • Client
    • Market
  • Art of Correct Practices
    • Continuously grows, develops, improves, and expands; the change does not stop
    • Development of entrepreneurship through the years is proof that it continuously evolves and responds to changing needs
    • Closely related to CREATIVITY which results in new ideas, the backbone of entrepreneurship
    • Entrepreneurs keep searching for something new
    • They find ways to transform new ideas into entrepreneurial opportunities
    • This aspect differentiates an entrepreneur from an ordinary small business
  • Opening and Managing Self-owned Business
    • A business is considered self-owned when the person managing its daily activities is also its owner
    • Entrepreneurship is not about the size of the business but rather about its sole ownership
    • Includes small, medium, and multimillion businesses managed by their respective owners
  • Risk-taking Venture
    • "Risk is inherent in an entrepreneurial venture"
    • Risk in entrepreneurship is called a business risk and cannot be detached from any entrepreneurial venture
    • An entrepreneur should face business risks intelligently and find ways to minimize their effects
  • Wealth-creating Venture
    • A business has to generate wealth for the owner in a creative way
    • Wealth is created when benefits derived by the owner in providing goods and services to customers cover the costs incurred
    • An entrepreneur looks at his own business as a wealth-creating venture, while an ordinary small businessperson regards his business as a source of income
    • Must improve the life of the owner
    • Cascade to the development of the local economy eventually of the whole country
  • Continuously grows, develops, improves, and expands; the change does not stop.
    Art of Correct Practices