A famous quote by the late Peter Drucker reads, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Per the New Merriam-Webster Dictionary an entrepreneur is a person who creates, organizes, and operates a business or businesses, taking on a greater than normal risk in order to do so. It is unknown who actually started the first business on the records but it stated to be in the year 527 AD when it was created. The details about the business are not specified either but it was solely resembled a funeral home. According to Forbes; a leading Internet media company, is among the most trusted resources for the world's businesses and investment leaders, in the last six years there are over thirty-eight million people who have become entrepreneurs and over twenty-two million businesses. Most entrepreneurs try to stress to aspiring entrepreneurs that being an entrepreneur is not a cakewalk, but instead can be quite tedious. Even though there are advantages and disadvantages of being an entrepreneur, the advantages usually outweigh the disadvantages. These advantages and disadvantages relate to the cash flow, freedom of time and flexibility of ones schedule, and potential networking opportunities.
Forbes sat down with some of the most successful entrepreneurs and they told the reporter that the best thing about their duties is the cash flow that their business brings them. One of the most successful entrepreneurs is Microsoft’s creator and owner Bill Gates, who brings in the most cash according to the Forbes 400 richest persons list. His name tops all the other names with a net worth of 77.8 billion dollars. As stated on dictionary.com a net worth is the amount by which assets exceed liabilities, which is usually used to determ...
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Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He is one of the richest people on the planet, with a net worth of over $72 billion dollars. He was born in Seattle Washington on October 28, 1955. He is married and has three children. He attended Harvard but he dropped out to pursue his career in software design. He is a philanthropist who donates much of his time and money to charity. In 1976 he designed Microsoft Windows, and has made windows one of the top operating systems in the world.
The world is filled with many ambitious people looking to make a product to help the world and make a living for themselves and their families. These people are known as entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur is someone who organizes and operates a business or businesses while running the risk of losing everything to make money. One might ask why there is a risk ...
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"Entrepreneurs who start and build new businesses are more celebrated than studied. They embody, in the popular imagination and in the eyes of some scholars, the virtues of "boldness, ingenuity, leadership, persistence and determination." Policymakers see them as a crucial source of employment and productivity growth. Yet our systematic knowledge of how entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses is limited. The activity does not occupy a prominent place in the study of business and economics.
Entrepreneurship incorporates unconstrained imagination and a readiness to settle on choices without strong information. The entrepreneur may be driven by a need to make something new or assemble something unmistakable. As new ventures have low achievement rates, the business person should have impressive tirelessness. Because of this, the entrepreneur may have the best risk of achievement by concentrating on a business sector corner either too little or too new to have been commanded by built up organizations.
Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and richest man in the world according to Forbes 2013 list. His wealth is self-made (Biography, Gates). Gates began to show interest in computer software at a young age (Biography, Gates). His father, an attorney, and his mother had a law career in mind for him (Biography, Gates). He attended Harvard University, but with no specific field of study (Biography, Gates). Most of his time at Harvard was spent using computers (Biography, Gates). With his parents consent, he dropped out in 1975 to fulfill his dreams of creating computer software (Biography, Gates). In 1983 Gates and his childhood friend/partner Paul Allen officially announced Microsoft Windows (Biography, Gates). Gates is now worth $76 billion (Forbes, Gates).
The entrepreneur is defined differently across many platforms they all share some commonality (Davison, 2008). This commonality consists of certain traits such as risk taking, innovative thinking, and an opportunity-seeking mindset to create, improve or expand a business (Davison, 2008). The entrepreneur functions as a promoter to the generation of wealth (Davison, 2008). The entrepreneur is important for the movement of the market and constant challenge to the status quo, indirectly improving all related business involved.
"Before Silicon Graphics, Clark said a fortune of $10 million would make him happy; before Netscape, $100 million; before Healtheon, a billion; now, he told Lewis, 'Once I have more money than Larry Ellison, I'll be satisfied.' Ellison, the founder of the software company Oracle, is worth $13 billion."
The first definition on entrepreneur was simply someone who invented something. Eventually, it turned into someone who owned a business. But the best definition, the one used most often today, is someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks for a business or enterprise. This shows that not only does a person "invent" something, but that they see the opportunity and build a business around it. An entrepreneur has a vision and builds around this vision.
Many people dream of becoming entrepreneurs someday. But it made me realize that there other factors that needs to be taken into consideration. We need to ask ourselves are we ready to take the challenge to the outside world. Not everyone have the vision, innovation and creativity to become an entrepreneur. The individual must have a positive attitude and accept the responsibility, have discipline to meet their goals, and take action when the opportunity presents itself. Many prefer a job security and rely on a weekly paycheck, while entrepreneurs will take risks and doesn 't have that luxury to know the amount of their income.
An entrepreneur is someone that starts up their own business. Mark Zuckerburg became an entrepeneur because of his social networking site called Fackbook. It all started in his college dorm in 2004 at Harvard University. He made a website called Facesmash for Harvard students only. This site let you vote on which two students from Harvard were “Hot or Not”. Then he started making “TheFacebook”, which was the name of facebook when it started.Soon he soon changed it to just “Facebook”. A man named Peter Theil was the first to invest in the company for 10.2% of the company. Zuckerburg branched out to more private schools, then next thing you know the site was all over the U.S. They made their money by letting ads be on the site. The companies pay facebook to put ads on the site, then Facebook makes money. The company went public in 2012 to the stocks. This was big. They would make even more money. It was risky, but Zuckerburg did it.
Entrepreneurship is an important aspect of social, economic and community life. It can be viewed as a critical factor to economic growth as well as a way of addressing unemployment (Nolan, 2003).Entrepreneurs are people who are persistently focused on identifying opportunities, they seek to create something worthwhile while taking into account foreseeable risk and rewards associated with the efforts (Nolan, 2003). Furthermore, entrepreneurs are frequently understood to be individuals who discover market needs and establish new business to meet those identified opportunities. The following assignment will firstly discuss the types of entrepreneurship, secondly it will discuss the reasons people become entrepreneurs, and thirdly it will discuss the importance of entrepreneurship.
The success of a business is greatly dependent on its entrepreneur. An entrepreneur is someone who takes the financial risk of starting and managing a new business venture. In order to be a successful entrepreneur, one must be ready to take a risk and invest one’s own savings into a business. The job requires that the individual be ambitious and committed to working hard in order to achieve the set targets. A successful entrepreneur is able to multi-task and communicates effectively with people, possessing leadership qualities such as confidence and motivation. The individual must play the role of constant motivator and inspire employees to improve their work performance, whilst ensuring a comfortable environment for the employees to work in. According to Schumpeter (1982), an entrepreneur is more of a ‘heroic’ than an ‘economic’ figure; his motivation should not solely be monetary, rather stemming more from inspiration and ambition.
Most successful entrepreneurs are have a passion for their product or service as well as a desire to solve a problem and make life easier, better, cheaper (10 Qualities of successful entrepreneurs, 2010). Their desire to be an entrepreneur is mostly due to in internal factor rather than an external such as money.