Venture Creation Programs

There is always a risk when financing a business. Whenever a new business fails, I wonder did they weigh the risk involved prior to starting up their company. Risk financing is having money to cover an unexpected loss in the company. By

Entrepreneurship is a term that has reentered the public vernacular over the last few years, many times in reference to what is wrong with America but what it means is rarely defined. Furthermore, it is generally agreed that more Entrepreneurship is a desirable trait but how to go about encouraging it is again a point of contention. This paper will address a specific facet of entrepreneurship and attempt to discover what are the key drivers to foster an entrepreneurial spirit from childhood.

secretary of education states that “high-quality education" that encourages "creativity, imagination, and ingenuity’”. It is true that thirty percentage of startup business failure reasons of “unbalanced Experience or Lack of Managerial Experience”, followed by “lack of Experiences in line of goods or services” is about eleven percentage. Interestingly, company competence occupied the highest rate of failure of 46% (Statistic Verification, Entrepreneur Weekly, Small Business Development Center, Bradley University, university of Tennessee Research). In addition, successful entrepreneur usually possess “highly motivated and willingness to take initiative to execute duties” and have appropriately responsible to their activities, decision, and company’s outcomes.

Instead, an endless number of issues, whether they be personal issues such as pride and hyper-ambition, financial issues like the rising cost of rents, or administrative issues such as disorganization and miscommunication, can be identified as the root of this widespread problem. In order to better the situation and help our economy, an effective approach must be developed and implemented in every start-up nation-wide. I believe that an effective approach towards solving this problem would include education and training; as research findings suggest a strong and direct correlation between education and entrepreneurial success. Even simple courses in areas such as business management and business administration, or accounting might serve to strengthen the weaknesses in businesses, thereby potentially increasing revenue. Education would clarify the work needed to operate a successful company, and in doing so would help aspiring entrepreneurs and would be failures set realistic goals for themselves and their firms. A firm understanding of what is attainable would lower the expectations of the “dissatisfied lord”, and the “megalomaniac”. Executive training and team-building are not a novel concept, most people understand their effectiveness in achieving cooperation and camaraderie, but in order to maximize efficiency and productivity, greater efforts must be made to

Our aim- to engage with SimVenture; a business simulation that allowed us to build and sell computers through our virtual company named ‘Genesis’. The formation and running of our virtual company integrated us with new venture creation and about being an entrepreneur. It reinforced concepts previously presented in our course lectures and engaged us in a competitive and volatile business environment. SimVenture ran for three virtual years with five members on its team- each with a different role in the company.

Part One: Learning Objectives 1. Define the role of the entrepreneur in business in the United States and around the world. 2. Describe the entrepreneurial profile and evaluate your potential as an entrepreneur. 3. Describe the benefits and drawbacks of entrepreneurship. 4. Explain the forces that drive the growth in entrepreneurship. 5. Explain the cultural diversity of entrepreneurship. 6. Describe the important role small business plays in our nation’s economy. 7. Describe the ten deadly mistakes of entrepreneurship and how to avoid them. 8. Put failure into the proper

Starting a business is the latest trend. Just take a look at Instagram. Several profiles have the caption ‘Entrepreneur’. At this very moment, there is someone, somewhere working on an idea, a business plan or launching a startup. Entrepreneurship is on the rise like never before. The flexibility and independence that comes with being one’s own boss is attractive and worth taking the leap in starting a business. However, most people don’t know that being an entrepreneur is a grueling journey that can be very lonely and stressful at times. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 50% of businesses fail during the first year. Starting a business can be a scary task, but the

One of the key factors to the growth of an economy is the importance it places on entrepreneurs. These are the individuals that take risks to bring innovations, employment and new products to the economy. They provide an inspiration to millions who wish to try their luck at starting a successful business and to those who wish to become a natural at the entrepreneurial process. But can the qualities of an entrepreneur be taught or are they already in the genes that one is born with? This has been one of the longest-standing debates in entrepreneurship and one that does not have a definitive answer.

Scott Adams shares with us the ideal framework for an entrepreneurial curriculum. In his article How to Get a Real Education, he reinforces the fact that the whole is far greater than the sum of these parts, especially in the context of an entrepreneur. Adams tells us of a couple stories from when he was in college and how he used the skills of an entrepreneur to become successful. He saw opportunities, sometimes embedded within problems, and worked them to his favor. This is what he referred to when speaking of the learned skill of transforming “nothing into something”, which is a skill that obviously applies to business. His basic idea is that much academic-oriented education is wasted on many

"Entrepreneurs are born by circumstance – where there is hunger, where there is despair, where there is desire." (Chye, pg. 1) According to Brown (1999) some people are born entrepreneurs, with or without education they will succeed, whereas no amount of education can provide business success for someone that does not have the ‘entrepreneurial spirit '. (Brown, 1999, pg. 3) Skills and characteristics that entrepreneurs require include: critical thinking, reliance on experience, venture feasibility analysis, venture strategy and evaluation skills, networking, deal-making and harvesting skills. (Brown, 1999, pg. 4)

The course on entrepreneurship was introduced with a Case study of Mamma Mia that helped bring out and refine our preconceived and insufficient understanding of "entrepreneurship".

(3) Moreover, to obtain his information, a questionnaire was developed which included mixtures of scaled, dichotomous, multiple choice, open ended and rank-order questions. (3) Hisrich findings were divided into four areas; the demographic composition and background of the entrepreneurs, the nature of their business ventures, the skills, and personalities of the entrepreneurs as well as the problems confronted in starting and operating a new venture. (3) In the sample entrepreneurs were between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five; in which sixty percent were married and had children. (3) Forty-two percent were first-born children in their families, and the majority grew up in lower or middle class environments.

The entrepreneurial function implies the discovery, assessment and exploitation of opportunities, in other words, new products, services or production processes; new strategies and organizational forms and new markets for products and inputs that did not previously exist (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). The entrepreneurial opportunity is an unexpected and as yet unvalued economic opportunity. Entrepreneurial opportunities exist because different agents have differing ideas on the relative value of resources or when resources are turned from inputs into outputs. The theory of the entrepreneur focuses on the heterogeneity of beliefs about the value of resources (Alvarez and Busenitz, 2001: 756). Entrepreneurship – the entrepreneurial function, can be conceptualized as the discovery of opportunities and the subsequent creation of new economic activity, as a majority or active shareholder who, in many small and medium–sized firms, assumes both the entrepreneurial and managerial functions (Reynolds, 2005).

At the beginning of the course I had only had basic entrepreneur knowledge, I understood the traits, and the amount of thought put into a business. I understood a entrepreneur needed to be able to set goals and had to establish connections and business partners. I was actually lucky enough to have taken a entrepreneur class in highschool. Which taught me lots on how an entrepreneur business is started. It also taught me the required determination and hard work it takes to be a entrepreneur.

The purpose of writing this report is to show how much I have learned and experience from enrolling in BBA 220. It is also include the impression and my personal reflection about the unit itself, and also the reflection about group project. Before I start this unit, I do not understand much about entrepreneur and entrepreneurship at all. I just know that people who do business are businessmen. However, after joining this unit, my understanding toward entrepreneur become different. Entrepreneur is someone who is willing to take risk by inventing a new business that does not exist in the market or start up their own business to make profit or take benefit of an opportunity. On the other hand, according to Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950),