Entrepreneurship

academic and practical focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, many companies face difficulties and often fail in motivating their employees to behave entrepreneurially. In discussing the root causes of these difficulties, I gained insights from literature review on challenges of corporate entrepreneurship…

What is the rationale behind social entrepreneurship? Is it to gain recognition for the business in order to generate more profit, or is the main focus creating social value within the community? The aim of this essay is to address the question stated above by analyzing the role of social entrepreneurs and their motives behind choosing that particular entrepreneurial type, in South Africa (a developing country according to the United Nations Statistics, 2017) with the exception of one or two…

lot of gusto and smarts. As our lecture states, “Entrepreneurs perceive an opportunity and create an organization to pursue it.” “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can live the rest of your life, like most people can’t.” I like this way of explaining what the difference between an Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship are. Entrepreneurs need to but a lot of time and energy into their business to keep it afloat. An article by S. Tobak, really hits…

promote members of my original team to be leaders of these new company ventures. The success of the company would be directly related to the work I put into it and this is quantifiable, not just a, “good job”, given by a middle level manager. With entrepreneurship, I will generate a Non-profit sector of the company that positively influences the community and comforts the people the non-profit is directed at. As the company grows to a point above my ability, I will gradually step down as the CEO…

principles of how easy it is to fall off the wagon and lose it all just when you thought you had everything all figured out. The lessons I learn along the journey of creating my successful establishment will follow me for the rest of my life. With entrepreneurship being highly associated with risk and challenges, being granted the reward of business ownership makes the hardship worthwhile. No matter how successful I become I understand I will never be too rich to ever experience going broke…

In preparation for my personal entrepreneurship statement, I evaluated my own personality and characteristics and also had those close to me evaluate my personality through online questionaries and interviews with my parents. The instruments that I used were the Myers-Briggs Indicator and two questionaries from The Authentic Happiness Project at the University of Pennsylvania. These tests were very interesting because I saw a lot of similarities between the results, giving me great insight on my…

have you learned? Have you learned anything about history? Have you learned anything about entrepreneurship? Share with me your thoughts. My experience of watching the movie The Men Who Built America, was very pleasant. I really enjoyed the movie, I felt like it was a great tool to learn from. We should all know about the history of America and who the men were that built it. I learned about entrepreneurship from them in terms of you cannot give up, and always have a strong will. If these men…

What is an entrepreneur ? "A entrepreneur sees sees an open door which others don 't completely perceive, to take care of an unsatisfied demand or to profoundly enhance the execution of a current business. They have ravenous self-conviction that this open door can be made genuine through diligent work, duty and the flexibility to take in the lessons of the business sector along the way. Much has been composed about entrepreneurs. Some of it depicts business visionaries as verging on legendary…

to accomplish the various objectives which it has set out to achieve. Holt (2000) observes that confidence in entrepreneurship is a product of training, experience and exposure to various entrepreneurial…

successful (Goodman). In the beginning, entrepreneurship was once a male dominated field, however, many things have changed in the last few decades. Today, more women are breaking free from the traditional, gender-specific roles and venturing into the business world. Not only are they holding high corporate positions but they are also successful entrepreneurs whom also own almost half of all businesses in the United States (Goodman). Female entrepreneurship has brought in a new revolution as we…