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Entrepreneurship

Promoter of All BusinessesEntrepreneur

Entrepreneur
He is an agent who buys factors of production at

certain prices in order to combine them into a product with a view to selling them at uncertain prices in future. He is an organizer who combines the land, labour and capital to produce a product. This gives three implicit factors to be inherent in him:
Moral Qualities for work judgment Command over sufficient capital Uncertainty of profits.

Entrepreneur
As an innovator (Schumpeter) The introduction of the new product in the market. The instituting of the new production technology. The opening of new market. The discovery of new source of supply of raw material The carrying out of the new form of organisation of any industry by creating of a monopolyposition or the breaking up of it.

Characteristics
Hard work
Desire for High Achievement Highly Optimiastic

Independence
Foresight Good Organiser Innovation

Functions
Idea generation
Scanning of the best suitable idea Determination of the business objectives

Product analysis
Market research Determination of form of ownership Raising necessary funds Recruitment of men

Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the attempt to create value

through recognition of business opportunity, the management of risk taking appropriate to the opportunity and through the communicative and management skills to mobilize human, finanacial and material resources necessary to bring a project to fruition.

Difference between Entrepreneur and Manager


On the basis of Motive
On the basis of Status On the basis of Risk-bearing

On the basis of Rewards


On the basis of Innovation On the basis of Qualification

Types of Entrepreneur
There are many types of entrepreneur on the basis of

skills, on the basis of need, etc. But most prominent and universal are of four types Innovative Entrepreneurs Imitative Entrepreneurs Fabian Entrepreneurs

Innovative Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs which use their creativeness and logical

thinking for doing something new. The new can be anything of the following:
Bringing new product in the market New technology New market and much more.

These possess characteristics like creativity, problem solving, foresightedness etc.

Bill Gates 1955 Example


By linking his Microsoft software to IBM's first PCs, he dominated the industry. He developed a two-prong strategy of expanding the market while maintaining a strong hold on competitors.

Michael Dell 1965


Created a new model for PC sales
Cutting out the retail middleman and custombuilding computers to suit buyers needs put Dell at

the front of the class of PC makers.

Muhammad Yunus 1940


Founded a banking system

30 years ago

To lend small amounts of

money to the rural poor in Bangladeshi villages. winner,

2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Imitative Entrepreneurs
The persons who work according to the others

innovations, strategies etc. and copy others way of doing business.


Examples from Your side!!!!!

Fabian Entrepreneurs
Fabian Entrepreneurs are characterized by very great

caution and skepticism in experimenting any change in their enterprises. They imitate only when it becomes perfectly clear that failure to do so would result in a loss of the relative position in the enterprise.

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