Entrepreneur Last updated: September, 2015

Entrepreneur “The person who perceives an opportunity and create an organization to pursue it.” Creates “new business may, in a few rare instances, be the revolutionary sort革命性的that rearranges the global economic order, as Walmart, FedEx, Apple, Microsoft, Google, eBay, and Amazon.com … Facebook and Twitter” Source: William D. Bygrave, and Andrew Zacharakis, Entrepreneurship, John Willey &Sons, Inc., 3rd Edition, 2014. (p: 2)

Entrepreneur (latest example…) Alibaba: “Alibaba Holdings Ltd. IPO, .. the Chinese e-commerce giant is now worth $230 billion, making it the fourth-largest tech company in the world behind Apple, Google and Microsoft, in terms of market capitalization市場資本. The public offering raised $21.8 billion公開發行籌集了218億美元for Alibaba, more than Visa's $17.8 billion in 2008 and more than Facebook's $16 billion in 2012. After briefly soaring close to $100 a share接近每股100美元, the stock settled back in the $91 to $91 range and closed at $93.89, slightly higher than the $92.70 opening price開盤價, but up 38 percent from the IPO price發行價of $68.” Direct quote Source: International Business Times, http://www.ibtimes.com/, 19 Sept. 2014, Accessed: 22 Sept. 2014.)

The Entrepreneurship Process (Source: William D. Bygrave, and Andrew Zacharakis, Entrepreneurship, John Willey &Sons, Inc., 3rd Edition, 2014. )

The Characteristics of a successful Entrepreneur (Source: William D. Bygrave, and Andrew Zacharakis, Entrepreneurship, John Willey &Sons, Inc., 3rd Edition, 2014. (p.:51) )