ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Words,words, words entrepreneur (n.) enterprise (n.) entrepreneurial (adj.)  an entrepreneurial approach  entrepreneurial skills  small and medium-size enterprises (SME)

An entrepreneur is …  …an individual who, rather than working as an employee, runs a small business and assumes all the risk and reward of a given business venture, idea, or good or service offered for sale. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as a business leader and innovator of new ideas and business processes. Source:

An entrepreneur is …  Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy. These are the people who have the skills and initiative necessary to take good new ideas to market and make the right decisions to make the idea profitable. The reward for the risks taken is the potential economic profits the entrepreneur could earn. Source:

An entrepreneur …  … a business  … all the risk and reward  … a key role in any economy  … the skills and initiative  … good new ideas to market  … the right decisions  … the idea profitable

An entrepreneur …  runs a …  assumes …  plays...  has …  takes …  makes …

It all starts with an idea … Who is behind these inventions?  Assembly line  Hot-air baloon  Battery  CD  Dynamite  Helicopter  Electric guitar  Printing press  Penicillin  Viagra  Parachute

It all starts with a good idea … Who is behind these inventions?  Assembly line (Henry Ford)  Hot-air baloon (Montgolfier brothers)  Battery (Volta)  CD (Philips Electronics, Sony Corp.)  Dynamite (Alfred Nobel)  Helicopter (Igor Sikorsky)  Electric guitar (Les Paul)  Printing press (Johannes Gutenberg)  Penicillin (A. Fleming)  Viagra (Phizer Inc.)  Parachute (Faust Vrančić)

...and sometimes develops into a great business Who is behind these businesses?  Microsoft  Harry Potter  McDonald’s  Amazon  Apple Computers  Facebook

Help needed?  Joanne K. Rowling  Jeff Bezos  M. Zuckerberg  Ray Croc  Bill Gates, Paul Allen  Steve Jobs

...and sometimes develops into a great business Who is behind these businesses?  Microsoft (Bill Gates)  Harry Potter (J.K.Rowling)  McDonald’s (Ray Croc)  Amazon (Jeff Bezos)  Apple Computers (Steve Jobs)  Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg)

What makes an entrepreneur?

Know their products?

Reader, p.31  Anything worth quoting?  Structure of the article?

Note-making IA profile of an entrepreneur II 2 examples a) R. Branson and Virgin b) N. Hayek and Swatch IIEntrepreneurs vs. Managers