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CHAPTER 1: ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Failure among start-up is due to:
- Lack of knowledge / information about the market or industry.
- Lack of skills on how to manage money, technology, employees, customers, and suppliers.
- The hard work, long hours and stress associated in running the business.
- Lacking in passion, tenacity and persistence, and self-discipline.
- Not enough capital (funds)
- Fierce competition.
- Incompetence to produce a product with good quality, on-time delivery, and low-cost
Entrepreneur
- unique individual who has the innate ability and extraordinary dedication to establish and
manage a business, acknowledging all the risks and reaping good returns and rewards.
Other ways to become one:
- Learn enough how a particular business is run while being employed.
- Take entrepreneurship courses.
- Good business planning.
(include ko na rin para sure)
1. How will the business raise revenues? What critical factors will cause the revenues to
materialize?
2. Who will produce the goods or render the services? Will it be done in-house or outsourced or
partly in-house and partly outsourced?
3. What will be the cost of making the enterprise products and other costs of doing business?
How will these costs be managed to ensure reasonable profits? What critical factors will drive
the costs up and down? How can these factors be controlled ?
4. What will be the major investments of the enterprise and their justification? How will these
investments give the enterprise a competitive edge?
5. How will the enterprise finance the investments? How will the enterprise fund its growth?
6. What marketing strategies and channels will be used to deliver the goods to customers?
7. Under what terms and conditions will the enterprise enter into with its customers or
marketing channels, its suppliers, and its stakeholders?
Mission statement (MISSION)
- General statement of how you will achieve your vision, a purpose for being of the enterprise.
- The mission statement is an action statement that usually begins with the word "to".
Vision Statement (VISION)
- Mental picture of what you want to accomplish or achieve at a specified future time.
- Strategies are a series of ways of using the mission to achieve the vision.
Goal
- Abstract, big-picture, long-term, short statement of a desired outcome, which is usually broad
and focuses on the intended results and not the methods.
- Achievable outcome that is typically broad and long-term.
- A company might use goals to inform yearly strategies that each department will execute
Objectives
- Turn a goal’s general statement of what's to be accomplished into a specific, quantifiable,
time-sensitive statement of what is going to be achieved and when it will be achieved.
Main differences between a goal and an objective:
- Goals provide direction whereas objectives measure how you should follow that direction
- While goals create a vision with a wide range, objectives focus on the individual, achievable
outcomes.
Goal (Left), Objective (Right)
Business Goals
- show the future and long-term targets of the enterprise.
- It is composed of the vision, mission, goals, objectives, key result areas, and performance
indicators of the enterprise.
To summarize
- The vision and the mission statements must be translated into measurable end results, more
referred to as objectives (must be more specific and smart).
Key Result Areas (KRAs)
- The objectives should then be translated into key result areas or KRAs.
- Qualitative manifestations that the objectives are being achieved.
Performance Indicators (PIs)
- provide the numerical or quantitative measure for each and every key result area (KRAs)
The business plan must demonstrate how the ES and the EDS lead to the attainment of the
desired outcomes:
- high customer satisfaction levels;
- high sales volume, market share, and market reach;
- high financial returns
- high people performance, productivity, and morale levels.
Investment requirements
Summaries, analysis and conclusion of the projected:
- income statements
- balance sheets
- cash flows, and funds flow
- Yields and returns, along with the risks and contingency measures
Business Proponents
Stakeholder
- Any person or entity who has interest in the company, can be influenced by the company’s
activities, and must be considered when making decisions.
Types:
● Internal stakeholders
- The individuals or groups within the organization, or anyone who works for the
organization, and actively participate in the management of the company.
● External stakeholders
- They represent outside parties, which affect or get affected by the business activities.
The Business Plan should discuss the major trends and patterns in the macro-environment
(SPEET)
Social environment
- includes the relevant demographics and socio-cultural dimensions
Political environment
- defines the governance system of the country, the laws, rules and regulations
Economic environment
- includes external factor that influence the behavior of costs
Ecological environment
- includes all natural resources that forces the long-term sustainability of the enterprise and its
competitors
Technological environment
- includes trends in the use of technology
Environmental and Regulatory Compliance
The business plan should ascertain that all the necessary:
- permits, licenses, and authority to use proprietary intellectual capital are secured
- local government ordinances and barangay requirements will be followed.
The company should…
- Be a more responsible corporate citizen
- pay taxes
- comply with all government business requirements
- follow the rules and regulations
Capital Structure and Financial Offering: Returns and Benefits to Investors, Financiers, and
Partners
The business plan should contain:
- The capital structure and financial offerings of the enterprise
- who are the investors, the financiers, and the partners
Finally, the business plan must:
- appeal to its target audience by highlighting the main features that they look for in a
business.
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Seven Rules of Brainstorming
1. Defer Judgment
- Creative spaces are judgment-free zones
- They let ideas flow so people can build from each other's great ideas.
2. Encourage Wild Ideas
- Embrace the most out-of-the-box notions.
- There’s often not a whole lot of difference between outrageous and brilliant.
3. Build on the Ideas of Others
- Try to use “and” instead of “but," it encourages positivity and inclusivity and leads to tons of
ideas.
4. Stay Focused on the Topic
- Try to keep the discussion on target.
- Divergence is good, but you still need to keep your eyes on the prize.
5. One Conversation at a Time
- This can be difficult—especially with lots of creative people in a single room—but always think
about the challenge topic and how to stay on track.
6. Be Visual
- Use colored markers and Post-its.
- Stick your ideas on the wall so others can visualize them.
7. Go for Quantity
- Crank your ideas out quickly. For any 60-minute session, you should try to generate 100 ideas.
Industry Sources of Opportunities (Will not include yung iba na medj simple since super haba)
The industry participants include:
1. Rivals or competitors in a particular type of business
2. Suppliers of inputs
3. Marketing channels used by industry participants to reach the end consumers
4. Consumer market segments being served by all competitors in the industry.
5. Substitute products or services, which customers shift or turn to.
6. Other industries (education, government, trade, real estate)
Knowing these will help the entrepreneur determine the logic of the industry
1. How do these participants in the industry make or lose money?
2. What critical factors drive the industry’s success?
3. What critical factors lead to failures?
Entrepreneurs must be able to:
- the increase or decrease demand and supply
- product substitutes and their market impact
- market trend analysis
- market traits, characteristics, and behavior
Examples:
- the “more-for-less” strategy
- the ‘‘ value for money’’ differs from group to group
- the time-of-the-day market segment
- strong supply chain
Micromarket
- Refers to the specific target market segment being served by a particular enterprise.
Consumer Preferences
- Refer to the tastes of particular groups of people.
Consumer Dislikes
- Refer to the things that irritate customers.
To win the battle in the many choices of customers’ everyday mind:
- generate awareness of the new product or service
- arouse the customers’ interest to buy
- arouse the customers’ interest to evaluate the product
- arouse the customers’ decision to finally purchase the product
- build brand loyalty
Other Sources of Opportunities: the Changing Needs and Wants
- Customer preferences change overtime. (tastes in clothes, music, shoes, entertainment, dance,
sports, hobbies, and even careers have evolved over the years)
- Customer piques
- The battle – battle for the mind, the battle for the heart, and eventually, the battle for the
wallet
Assets: Cash (on hand and in bank)Accounts Receivable, Inventory of goods, equipment and
machinery, facilities, vehicles
Liabilities represent the enterprise’s debts to suppliers, banks, government, employees, and other
financiers.
Stockholders’ equity represents the investors’ investments in the stock (shares) of the business.
In general, there are four common types of measures used in ratio analysis: (PLSE)
- Profitability
- Liquidity
- Solvency
- Efficiency
Profitability
- Measures the relationship between revenues and costs.
Liquidity
- Refers to the availability of cash or assets that can be quickly converted to cash to pay off
short-term debts.
- How easily the assets can be converted
- Current financial situation,
Solvency
- Refers to the long-term financial position of a business, if it has enough assets to cover its
long-term liabilities.
- How well the firm sustains itself for a long time.
- Future financial viability
Efficiency
- A measure of how well a company utilizes its resources to make a profit.
Payback Period
- How long will it take for the entrepreneur to get back his investment in an enterprise.
- Formula: Total investment / Annual Net Income after Taxes
Return on Sales (ROS)
- Where the entrepreneur calculates how much profit the enterprise is earning for each peso
sold.
- Formula: Net Profit after Taxes / Sales
CHAPTER 5 - OPPORTUNITY SEIZING (Intindihin lang siguro?) (sorry idk pano summarize)
Opportunity Seizing
- Determine the critical success factors to succeed and be vigilant about the factors that cause
other businesses to fail.
To seize the opportunity, you need to:
- Cultivate curiosity as an entrepreneurial mindset
- Be open-minded
- Make quick decisions
- Pay attention to detail
- Network and associate with others
Position Statement comes after
● Identifying the competing products’ Main Value Proposition (MVP)
- the benefits they deliver to customers
● Customer profiling
- the benefits they desire from the product/s
Concept
- An idealized abstraction of the product or service to be offered to the preferred market of the
entrepreneur.
Conceptualizing the Product or Service Offering
1. Create a product concept
2. Find a market niche
3. Positioning the product in a category where the participants are rather weak
4. A product that would change the way customers think, behave, and buy; thus making the
existing product “obsolete” and “outdated”
Market niche
- Small segments of the market where discriminating customers are searching for special
product/service features and attributes.
Designing, Prototyping, and Testing the Product
- Designing means that the entrepreneur must render the concept and translate it into its
physical and very real dimensions (measurement)
- Prototyping means building the product that will be ready for actual testing by the
entrepreneur.
- Testing the product by the FGD, potential customers for perfection
End results
- Refer to the final outcomes of the business, such as highly satisfied customers, huge sales, or
large profits generated, etc
Important choices to achieve the desired results:
1. Correct technology
2. Choose the right people
3. Design the operating workflow
4. Specify the systems and procedures
5. Design the organizational architecture
Required resources:
- people resources
- physical resources
- money resources
Effective
- producing a result that is wanted
- Doing the right things (Effectiveness)
Efficient
- Capable of producing desired results without wasting materials, time, or energy"
- Doing things the right way (Efficiency)
CHAPTER 6 - MARKET RESEARCH (di na ata need bukas, since until opportunity lang)
Market Research
- Process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data about your target market, consumers,
competitors, and industry
Seven Basic Questions
1. Why - Purpose and objective for conducting the market research
2. What - Determines the scopes and limitations of the market research
3. Which - Determines which segment must be studied. The one the entrepreneur is eyeing
4. Who - Identifies who among the members of the selected market will participate in the
market research
5. When - Determines the time and timing of the research. Critical for time constrained markets
6. Where - Relevant location of the market research
7. How - Determines the methodology to be used
Market Research Methodologies
The more the entrepreneur knows about his relevant market
- the more customers can be properly segmented and reached
- products can be positioned
- brands can be promoted
- prices can be set, and
- locations can be pinpointed.
Entrepreneurs and investors do not want to put resources in unknown markets.
Good market research allows entrepreneurs and investors to make wiser decisions.
Sales Data Mining (example to mostly) (familiarize lang siguro)
- Using the information in next example, the data can logically be arranged chronologically
from 7am to 6pm otherwise known as data array (Table 6.1)
- The data can be further grouped into Intervals of two, three or four hours
- The hotdog customers can be further classified into Male and female customers (can be
sub-classified into small children, 12 years old and below, teenagers, 13 to 19 years, and adults,
20 years and above).
CASE : SELLING HOTDOGS (d ko linagay lahat since you get the idea naman)
A researcher observed and recorded the following data in a store selling hotdogs.
- Boy, aged 10, bought two hotdogs at 2pm.
- Girl, aged 8, bought one hotdog at 4pm.
- Man, aged 26, bought 3 hotdogs at 1pm.
- Couple, a man and wife, aged about 30, bought two hotdogs at 8am.
Frequency Polygon
- Constructed by marking the frequencies on the vertical axis with a dot corresponding to the
values on the horizontal axis. These dots are then connected with a straight line to form a
polygon.
Pie Chart
- It is a circular graph divided into sections that represent the relative frequencies or
magnitudes of the grouped values.
In order for the data to be more useful to the entrepreneur, a cross-tabulation is highly
recommended. This will explain why some data fall at one end of the distribution while others are at
the opposite end.
Social classes and reference groups often dictate what is acceptable or unacceptable behavior.
Occupations determine what kinds of goods and services they would buy.
Domiciles or habitat, or areas of residence and environmental surroundings, oftentimes define and
limit the choices available to customers
Psychographics
- Defines the customer’s motivations, perceptions, preferences, and lifestyle.
Motivation goes to the roots of the customer's needs and wants.
● Physiological – based on the physical needs and wants
● Psychological – can be guided by need for achievement and
Perception
- The way a person chooses to receive or interpret information from the external world.
Motivation
- Provides the drive for action, perception defines exactly what that person will do.
Preferences
- Shape customer decisions.
Technographics
- classifies people according to their level of expertise in using a product or service.
For Example:
- Sports beginners might just want basic equipment
- Sports regular might be looking for more sophisticated equipment
- Sports professionals would want the best of the best for competitive purposes.
Market Mapping
- refers to grouping customers and products according to certain market variables like
demographics, psychographics, and technographics to create a market map.
The purpose
- to provide the market analyst a better understanding of the market to paint a clearer picture
of where the different competitors are relative to the different market segments.
- discover market segments that are relatively unserved or underserved
- develop products and services that fulfill the gaps in the marketplace
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