Introduction
The term of entrepreneur has been evolved into various definitions, Drucker (1998) defined entrepreneur as individuals who commit to practice innovation systematically, and put their efforts on enhancing social potential or economic of an enterprise. This characteristic also can be found in a team of three Taiwanese young entrepreneurs who have founded a company, Gogolook. They received public praise by the executive chairman of Google due to their innovative call filtering App: Whoscall. The following parts will discussed how the three entrepreneurs put their ideas into practice and how they realised potential business opportunity in a timely manner.
Released in the year of 2010,Whoscall is an app that has been widely
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This acquisition indeed made the three entrepreneurs a big fortune, reflecting the specific function of an entrepreneur as what Drucker (1998) stated: “entrepreneur creates wealth-producing resources”.
Opportunity identification
According to what Jeff Kuo recalled, Whoscall was developed simply because he saw the need from his personal experience. Although two of co-founders have a master’s degree in technology management while the other was studying industrial design in his phD, the prior knowledge that they have gained from school did not help them identify the business opportunity promptly. This shows a contradiction to Shane’s claim (2000), who believed that prior knowledge could allow entrepreneurs more easily to seek potential opportunities. In this case, however, the opportunity was rather recognised from what Drucker (1998) called “unexpected occurrence”. Kuo had once annoyed by a scam phone call from Hong Kong Jockey Association, who asked him to redeem a big cash prize. Rather than ignoring the call, Kuo started searching for the owner of the number from the Internet. This action however suddenly inspired him to combine the idea of “incoming call” with “online searching”. The role of prior knowledge was rather like a tool to assist these three co-founders in developing the App on their own, as they have the ability and the technology to design the App. Instead of asking external developers for product development,
Slowly he became market leader for that product. Entrepreneurship has been defined by several researchers as the progression of making a product or service valuable by gathering a distinctive set of resources and opportunities. This procedure comprises the set of accomplishments to recognise opportunities, business classification, evaluation and obtaining the essential resources, management and getting positive results. Furthermore, entrepreneurship has been seen as an organizational coordination that underlines the three extents: innovation, taking calculated risks and proactive orientation. There are many indications to provision the idea that the businesses which were engaged in entrepreneurial practices have been most effective and successful (Hills, Hultman & Miles, 2008).
A) A real entrepreneur can take an idea and that can be change in to a service or product according to the needs of certain population. Because of this characteristic economists said that “entrepreneurship is becoming an important agent in the growth and wellbeing of the society”.an entrepreneur is motivated by family or society. They offer new completion and also promotes improved productivity. They can recognize and resolves social problems on a large scale. To create social value entrepreneurs act as a change agent for the society like designing and distributing new approaches. Entrepreneur react very quickly and effectively to the change so that they can take the advantage of opportunities. If they can’t capable of quick action it will be result on their process and success. Social entrepreneurs are stepping to solve the problems.
An entrepreneur is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise (Merriam-Webster, n.d). Some characteristics of an entrepreneur are, the willingness to work hard, the desire for responsibility and the confidence in their ability to succeed. The person that I chose to interview for this paper is, Adama Kuyateh.
Many ideas come to mind when asked what the word entrepreneur means. It is someone who organizes and creates their own business; an employer of productive labor. Really, it is so much more than that. It is an all consuming task that is risky. What its mantra should be is the phrase "go big or go home." I discovered this notion while venturing out to New York City to interview Megan Cariola, owner of a local, organic shop located nearby the South Street Seaport. I wanted to get the complete experience by speaking to her in person and observing her first hand, rather than merely communicating through email. I chose Cariola for this assignment because I have shopped at her store when I lived in Manhattan, and ever since we met I have aspired to one day open my own business. As a female, it is refreshing to see that women can make it as entrepreneurs in today’s world.
A real entrepreneur can take an idea and that can be change in to a service or product according to the needs of certain population. Because of this characteristic economists said that “entrepreneurship is becoming an important agent in the growth and wellbeing of the society”.an entrepreneur is motivated by family or society. They offer new completion and also promotes improved productivity. They can recognize and resolves social problems on a large scale. To create social value entrepreneurs act as a change agent for the society like designing and distributing new approaches. Entrepreneur react very quickly and effectively to the change so that they can take the advantage of opportunities. If they can’t capable of quick action it will be result on their process and success. Social entrepreneurs are stepping to solve the problems.
Entrepreneurship is difficult to define throughout its history research. Even nowadays, this concept is still a debatable point (Rajendra, et al., 2017). Based on four decades of research, Gartner (1988) concludes that entrepreneurs are founders of new firms. Shane and Venkataraman (2000) consider entrepreneurship as “a new venture’s risk-taking endeavor seeking an opportunity” and Fortunato (2014) adds innovative value into the concept of entrepreneurship. Thus, research on the definition of entrepreneurship continue. According to those diverse views, I will interpret six unique entrepreneurial characteristics and theoretically analyze each one. Risk taker, need for achievement and proactivity as my strengthens will be illustrated with my experience. Innovativeness, internal locus of control and tolerance for ambiguity are my weaknesses, thus I will describe relevant successful Entrepreneurs’ experiences.
We cannot all be entrepreneurs as they say but we can all be investors. Almost every working class person is an investor. If you have a life policy or funeral cover pension funds you are an investor.
It can be argued that entrepreneurship is the backbone of our technological society, and keeps reinventing the way business is done. Each new company provides a different perspective as to how business should be handled. They also provide a very large portion of the new products that change the way we live our day-to-day lives. However, due to the risks involved in starting a new company it takes a certain "entrepreneurial spirit" to successfully launch a new business. This paper will step through the entrepreneurial process by examining two separate entrepreneurs and their reason for becoming entrepreneurs, why they chose their industry, how they obtained funding, their first customers, and the pros and
The meaning of the word "entrepreneur" has a long history of transformation: from to do something, to work, and then to gradually include various attributes such as risk bearing, requiring skill sets, innovation and being profit-centered. (Cowdrey, 2012) The word changes. So does the group of people represented by the word and their mindset, which has become a research highlight over a decade. As scientists and researchers are making progress, the general characteristics of how expert entrepreneurs think have been summarized and professors have been making attempts to lecture people the essence of such mindset so that more individuals are able to contribute to the society. This essay is focused on the mentioned two aspects: features of typical mindset of successful entrepreneurs and how these can be developed.
An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods and who accepts the risks associated with them. (Schaper, Michael.2002) He can be anyone who identifies an opportunity in a market and has a belief that it would succeed in the economy and on that belief he starts exploiting the opportunity. They may create a new organization or may be a part of an existing organization where they revitalize the organization in response to their perceived opportunity. Generally, the word entrepreneur is used to denote a person who starts a
Entrepreneurial opportunities are being discovered day after day. This has led to the birth of all of the items we have and cherish in our lives. If one entrepreneur doesn’t grasp the opportunity quickly, there is already another entrepreneur who has recognized an opportunity and knows its true potential whether for personal and/or public benefits in the markets. But, what is an entrepreneurial opportunity? “Entrepreneurial opportunities are situations in which a person has a chance to introduce a product that generates more revenue than its cost to produce” (Shane 2005). Throughout this essay, three key questions will be answered and dissected: how three factors influence personal decisions on entrepreneurial opportunities, what biases
Entrepreneurship can simply be defined as the art and process that “ involves capturing ideas, converting them into products and, or services and then building a venture to take the product to market” (Zhao, pp. 26). The essential aims to be accomplished by these procedures is the creation of a new organizations or reganerating any part of any organizations for the purpose of achieving further improvement and betterment of the comprehensive business or company. For entrepreneurs sans of access to an inaugurate business system, incubators and accelerators provide a possible support mechanism for access to partners and resources. The process of Entrepreneurship can be labeled into a number of categories. These may include economical, social or other forms of entrepreneurship. However, it is important to note that one of comparatively recent discovered and introduced type of entrepreneurship is the Technological Entrepreneurship.
He further states that it always has to do with bringing about a different use of resources in that they are withdrawn from their traditional employ and subjected to new combinations. Schumpeter relates entrepreneurship to be influenced by entrepreneurs who are innovative and these people have to be extra-ordinary as they have to come up with extra-ordinary events. They come up with new technological possibilities hence are able to establish large businesses from these. Carland etal. (1984) confirms that an entrepreneur is someone innovative and further says that he or she employs strategic management practices in the business. Timmons (2000) believes entrepreneurship as the process of creating and seizing an opportunity and pursuing it, regardless of resources currently controlled. Nieman and Nieuwenhuizen (2009) define an entrepreneur as the person who sees an opportunity in the market, gathers resources and creates and grows a business venture to meet these needs. They also further states that he or she bears risk of the venture and is rewarded with profit if it succeed. With different definitions of entrepreneurship defined by different authors through the way they define an entrepreneur, the researcher generally defines entrepreneurship as the act of being an entrepreneur who establishes business through the organisation of resources taking risk with the aim of realising profit.
At the mercy of the development of the society, the development of the enterprise is more and more quickly. Meanwhile, the competitiveness among enterprises becomes larger than before. Why some companies can world-famous? What is entrepreneurship and why it is relevant to start-ups and established firms is my topic. I will use some famous company's examples to illustrate this topic.
The concept of entrepreneur can be well understood by Dr. APJ Kalam’s portrayal of entrepreneur mentioned below: