The Entrepreneur

June 1st, 2008 by Nick Yates

Author: Sean Mcalister

Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, as many new ventures fail. Entrepreneurs usually have strong beliefs about a market opportunity and organize their resources effectively to accomplish an outcome that changes existing interactions. Entrepreneurship creates jobs and drives the US economy. Entrepreneurs exemplify the American dream working without a boss and using their own hands to build a livelihood.

Business

Entrepreneurs that specialize in business operations are viewed as fundamentally important in the capitalistic society. Modern myths about entrepreneurs including the idea that they assume the risks involved to undertake a business venture, now appear to be based on a false translation of Cantillon’s s ideas. A person who can efficiently manage these factors in pursuit of a real opportunity to add value in the long-run, may expand (future prospects of larger firms and businesses), and become successful. Some distinguish business entrepreneurs as either “political entrepreneurs” or “market entrepreneurs,” while social entrepreneurs’ principal objectives include the creation of a social and/or environmental benefit.

Entrepreneurship

Previous studies have shown a strong link between high-potential entrepreneurship and subsequent economic growth. US Entrepreneurship and small business represent the third largest global economy. If we were to compare the size of the small business economy with the rest of the world, the US entrepreneurship and small business economy would rank third in the world behind the US medium and large business economy and Japan. I understand that some of my readers may be disappointed about me not having created my own company, long considered the epitome of “real” entrepreneurship. To others, entrepreneurship is about starting a business all on your own.

Resources

They are successful because their passion for an outcome leads them to organize available resources in new and more valuable ways. Those factors are now deemed to include at least the following elements: land (natural resources), labour (human input into production using available resources), capital (any type of equipment used in production i. Private-Sector Resources –Technical and business support resources willing to work with the little guy.

Social

A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change. Whereas business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, social entrepreneurs assess their success in terms of the impact they have on society. While social entrepreneurs often work through nonprofits and citizen groups, many work in the private and governmental sectors. The terms social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship were first used in the literature on social change in the 1960s and 1970s [1].

A female entrepreneur is sometimes known as an entrepreneuse. The research data indicate that successful entrepreneurs are actually risk averse. Most commonly, the term entrepreneur applies to someone who creates value by offering a product or service. The word “entrepreneur” is a loanword from French. Entrepreneuse is simply the French feminine counterpart of “entrepreneur”. Reich considers leadership, management ability, and team-building as essential qualities of an entrepreneur. A more generally held theory is that entrepreneurs emerge from the population on demand, from the combination of opportunities and people well-positioned to take advantage of them. An entrepreneur may perceive that s/he is among the few to recognize or be able to solve a problem.

Wishing you and your team Success!

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