Essential Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs: A Guide to Starting and Managing Your Business
Learn the characteristics and financing options for entrepreneurs, exploring investment opportunities, risks, and innovation. Discover the keys to entrepreneurial success.
Essential Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs: A Guide to Starting and Managing Your Business
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Ch. 6 Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Becoming an Entrepreneur • Entrepreneur- Someone who takes a risk in starting a business to earn a profit. • Entrepreneurship- The process of starting, organizing, managing, and assuming the responsibility for a business.
Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs • Hard Worker • Risk Taker • Self-confident • Persistent • Energetic • Goal-oriented • Independent • Competitive • Reliable
Financing • Small business owners MUST have some way to finance their business. • Most entrepreneurs’ finances comes from friends or family (More than 50%). • Venture capital- Money provided by large investors to finance new products and new businesses. • Bank Loans
To invest or not to invest? • What are some questions that you would ask someone if presented with an investing opportunity?
Opportunities and Risks • New business opportunities • Innovation- An invention or creation that is brand new. • Improvement- A designed change that increases the usefulness of a product, service or process.