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The Entrepreneurial Process. Identify opportunitiesSelect the right opportunity for your teamDetermine feasibilityMake a go / no go decision. Selection Criteria. Match the opportunity to your personal profileFind a unique way to approach the businessCarry out a preliminary screeningLook for th
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1. Opportunity Screening and Evaluation
2. The Entrepreneurial Process Identify opportunities
Select the right opportunity for your team
Determine feasibility
Make a go / no go decision
3. Selection Criteria Match the opportunity to your personal profile
Find a unique way to approach the business
Carry out a preliminary screening
Look for the fatal flaw
4. Evaluating Opportunities Before proceeding, always do a complete business plan
There are many opportunities
Need a quick and dirty pre-screening method
5. Typical Pre Startup Questions Do we know enough about this business?
Do we know enough about the market?
demographics
growing / declining / static
What s the competition?
similar products
meeting similar needs
How much red tape?
6. Typical Pre Startup Questions What are the resource requirements and can we get them?
financial
human
other
Is this something we really want to do?
7. Procedure Evaluate your personal interests and skills
Complete a group synthesis
Complete the opportunity evaluation questionnaire
8. Opportunity Evaluation Form To complete Section A:
refer to the group profile youve completed
review tasks on sheet
assign a weighting of 3 to 5 to each task based on your profile
3 is comfortable, 5 is uncomfortable
assign a project number to each of the projects you have identified
9. Opportunity Evaluation Form To complete Section A (continued)
rate each of the tasks on the sheet for each project
range starts at 1, ends at the weighting you assigned to that task
1 is relatively easy, the higher numbers difficult
add the score for each project
10. Opportunity Evaluation Form To complete Section B:
use the same project numbers as Section A
assign a rating of 1 to 4 to each question
1 is relatively easy, the higher numbers difficult
add the score for each project
the lowest combined scores of Section A and Section B is often the most attractive project
11. DECISION MAKING Edward deBonos
Six Thinking Hats
12. Yellow Hat Thinking Think of sunshine and optimism
Represents the LOGICAL POSITIVE
Benefits
Value
Feasibility
13. Black Hat Thinking Think of officers in dark uniforms
Concerned with CAUTION
Stops us from doing things that are illegal, wrong or dangerous
Represents LOGICAL NEGATIVE
14. Green Hat Thinking Think of vegetation, growth, natural energy, sprouting and branching.
Represents CREATIVITY
Makes time for deliberate creative effort
15. White Hat Thinking Think of paper with information on it; paper coming out of a computer printer.
Concerned with DATA and INFORMATION.
16. Red Hat Thinking Think of a cozy, warm, red fire.
Concerned with FEELINGS and EMOTIONS.
Put forward feelings, hunches, intuitions, emotions.
17. Blue Hat Thinking Think of blue sky or overview.
Concerned with PROCESS CONTROL.
Manages the thinking process.
18. Assignment
Identify five potential business opportunities
Evaluate them using the evaluation questionnaire
10 pages maximum
Due October 7