Entrepreneurship Group Assignment for Evening Economics 1 st year

Students
Instructions

 Read carefully and do it well

 This assignment should be done by all members of the group
 Clear hand writing and including all contents of term paper have its own
value
 Copy from each other is extremely forbidden
 Total weight 15% with presentation
 Summation date is one week before your final exam
Group 1 and 3
1. List and discuss all environment of entrepreneurship
2. Discuss steps involved in business planning process.
3. Why are small businesses more likely than large businesses to be innovative?
4. Describe four causes of small business failure.
5. Imagine that you have developed a unique formula for a soft drink that, upon entering a
person’s mouth, analyzes the drinker’s DNA to determine his/her favorite flavor, and then
the drink instantly realigns its chemical composition become that flavor. Describe as how
you can best protect this trade secret? Will you patent it? Why or why not?
6. Discuss how to reduce customer dissatisfaction.
7. List and elaborate capital requirements for long-term, medium term and working capital.
8. Elaborate the feasibility and applicability of crowd funding in Ethiopia.
9. How does the fair trade movement fit together with the triple-bottom-line theory of
corporate responsibility?
10. What do you want to say about the ethical practices of business around your community?
Why?

Group 2
1. Financing The New Venture
2. Sources & Uses of Funds
3. The Process of Finance
4. Types of Loans Granted

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 5. Micro-Financing of Small Businesses in Ethiopia
6. Legal Frame Work For Micro-Financing Institutes in Ethiopia
7. Equity Financing
8. Procedures For Getting Loan From Micro-Financing Institute

Group 4 and 7
1. Managing Growth and Transaction
2. Preparing For The Launch of The Venture
3. Managing Early Growth of Venture
4. New Venture Expansion Strategies And Issues
5. Joint Ventures
6. Types Of Joint Ventures
7. Acquisitions
8. Franchise
9. Mergers

Group 5 and 6
1. Characteristics of an Ideal Form of Organization
2. Sole Proprietorship
3. Advantages of Sole Proprietorship:
4. Disadvantages of Sole Proprietorship:
5. Partnership
6. Characteristics of Partnership:
7. Types of Partnership:

8. Advantage of Partnership

9. Disadvantage of Partnership

10. 4.5. Joint Stock Company (Corporation)

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