...can provide. The overall objective is to empower learners through entrepreneurial thinking and immerse them in entrepreneurial experiences that will enable them to develop entrepreneurial skills. Inspire, Inform and Involve This highly interactive program enables participants to learn from the first-hand experience of successful real-world entrepreneurs. Drawing on the eight life-lessons described in the book, the program combines narrated chalkboard presentations with video interviews and case studies featuring modern-day examples of those who, like Clifton’s Uncle Cleve, have triumphed over hardship and adversity by embracing an entrepreneurial mindset. In addition to the narrated chalkboard presentations, each lesson includes individual learning assessments, discussion topics and assignments that are designed to maximize comprehension and assimilation while encouraging real-world application of the core concepts. The course also includes access to a vibrant online entrepreneurial learning community, a virtual campus that enables participants and facilitators to share their knowledge and experience with other entrepreneurs and educators within their own communities as well as others across the country and around the world. Target Audience and Delivery Options The Ice House Entrepreneurship Program can be adapted to a variety of participants ranging from young adults through higher education and workforce development, including those who may be economically...
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...Succeed How to Succeed as a Student Entrepreneur Staring a business while enrolled in school may sound like a daunting task but it can be manageable and lead to success if you follow three essential steps. By staying organized, setting goals and being persistent, and having effective study habits you can be a lucrative student entrepreneur. Importance of a Schedule The first key to staying organized as a student entrepreneur is making a schedule. A daily and weekly plan helps with staying organized, eliminating idle time and allows for planning ahead. The creation and use of a schedule reduces the stress about what task an individual must do next. By having time designated for certain activities, a schedule helps prevent forgetting tasks as well as rushing through other tasks. A schedule helps allot time for school work and business activities and leaves an individual in charge of what they want to do and when they want to do it. As a student, one should be reasonable about business growth by prioritizing and designating only a few hours a week for business activities. It is practical to begin by establishing a small scaled business while in school, with the intention of expanding later when more time is available. Ways to Create a Schedule There are a number of different ways a schedule can be created and many tools that make it a simple task. Many online websites can generate a schedule once input is entered such as Google Calendars which can instantly...
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...Management Information Systems 13e KENNETH C. LAUDON AND JANE P. LAUDON CHAPTER 3 INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND STRATEGY IT and Geo-Mapping Help a Small Business Succeed CASE 2 SUMMARY Emily Meyer and Leigh Rawdon started The Tea Collection, a children’s clothing wholesale business, in 2002. Their first product line consisted of three baby sweaters and a single shop. Today The Tea Collection has expanded to over 300 department and boutique stores and now includes women’s clothing. Information technologies played a critical role in their success from design, to production, customer targeting, and marketing. L=4:57. Systems URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_GmukX5sfM CASE just for huge, multinational companies. Small business entrepreneurs use a variety IT is not of information technologies to do all the things much larger firms do, but on a much smaller budget. IT allows small firms to act and look like much larger firms, amplifying the power of entrepreneurs, and creating the conditions for sustained and rapid growth. The Tea Collection (teacollection.com) exemplifies how entrepreneurs can use inexpensive but powerful information technologies to create a successful business. The Tea Collection was founded by Emily Meyer and Leigh Rawdon in 2002 in San Francisco with just three pima cotton baby sweaters and a vision of bringing the fusion of worldwide cultures and modern design to fashion. Emily Meyer grew up in Texas and started sewing when she...
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...elaborate on the emerging trends and conceive a product considering all these four trends? Being an entrepreneur is often associated with successful individuals who have accumulated loads of money. However, an entrepreneur must deal with never-ending stress and frustration. Many people forget that most new businesses fail, but when a business succeeds, entrepreneurship can be highly rewarding, both emotionally and monetarily. As one entrepreneur's innovations pave the way for others. The economy has always been fueled by the innovations and new products entrepreneurs bring to the market. Big businesses started out small, usually as one man or woman with a good idea and the willingness to work hard and risk everything. While it is true that about half of all new businesses fail, the ones that succeed contribute a great deal to the creation of other new ventures which leads, in turn, to a dynamic national economy. For that you need to observe trends that give you opportunity. The four observing trends are economic forces, social forces, technological advances and political action & regulatory changes. Entrepreneur should launch innovative products that should meet the consumers demand and could easily pass through from all these trends. By keeping in mind all these things the product I am launching is touch screen tablet pc that can be use for multi-tasking (office use, entertainment, student use etc.). As the world technologies advances and dealing so much into surface interface devices...
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...DEDICATION “ To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn you must first fail.” The writer would like to dedicate this piece of work to those people who inspired and encouraged him in many ways…. To all his mentors and faculty members of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, To his beloved mother and father… To his friends, classmates and special friend.. Above all, to our Lord Jesus Christ who is the source of everything. John Mar ACKNOWLEDGMENT “ Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed.” ( Proverbs 16:3 ) After all the sacrifices, challenges and hardships encountered by the author of this narrative, at last fulfillment of this work came into reality through God’s help, guidance and blessings. To the unending help of many people concerned, who gave their time, continued support and guidance by contributing in the accomplishment of this narrative report, the author would like to extend his profound gratitude and sincere appreciation to the following: Instructor Joey C. Cereno, the subject teacher for helping and giving his precious time to give assistance and encouragement. For his untiring efforts in giving comments and suggestions, for his kindness, knowledge and understanding. To all his mentors and faculty members of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology, for being an inspiration and a hand who is always willing...
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...Chapter-2 Discussion points and “Entrepreneur in Action” Discussion point: How many of you (in the classroom) intend to be entrepreneurs at some point in their life. How confident you are that they will succeed – use a scale of 1 to 10. Why? For those with lower scores, ask what they might do to be able to increase their confidence. Entrepreneur in Action: Beth Cross took on the established cowboy boot market and in just more than 10 years has sales of $80 million and owes nearly 17% of the western wear market. How did she do it? Here’s her four rules for success: 1. Find the market’s blind spot. The boot market hadn’t really changed in years and wasn’t taking advantage of the latest technologies. 2. Make friends in high places. Cross was able to get a high level Reebok executive on her board. 3. Pay less, charge more. Cross was able to outsource most of her labor and was able to charge more for her patented technologies. 4. Create your own demand. As a start up she had no marketing budget and took the boots to horse shows and rodeos in her car. (Copeland, Michael V. “These Boots Really Were Made for Walking” Business 2.0, October 2004 pg. 72 http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/10/01/8186646/index.htm Discussion point: Poll the class to see how many have parents or other relatives that are role models. Are there other role models they use as well? Discussion point: Ask students to rank themselves on the characteristics...
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...written by fourth grade high school students in Ohio discussing entrepreneurship: “ - Entrepreneurship is one of the most important parts of economics in a freeenterprise system. - An entrepreneur is a person that creates, organises and manages a business while trying to make a profit. The first thing an entrepreneur needs to do is to think of an idea. They have to be inquirers so they can gather as much information as possible. They need to constantly reflect on their decisions. They must be risk-takers because there is always a chance that their business will not succeed. They must be open-minded when presenting their ideas and receiving feedback. Entrepreneurs must be good communicators when sharing their ideas with investors and when advertising and promoting their company. They must also be principled and caring towards their employees and customers. - By being hardworking entrepreneurs, we all have the opportunity to be very successful.” 2 The essay examines the importance of entrepreneurship within the economy, core elements of entrepreneurship, and how entrepreneurial behaviour and certain character traits impact success. The investigation is based on statements about entrepreneurship given by fourth grade high school students in Ohio. The essay will argue that entrepreneurship is an essential part of economics in a free-enterprise system. Furthermore, it will point out that an entrepreneur needs to follow certain codes of...
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...MANAGEMENT DILEMMA The challenge facing higher education institutions is level of technological entrepreneurship and innovation of first year students in the field of Technological programmes. This phenomenon has put pressure on management of higher education institutions to introduce entrepreneurial mindset and encourage innovation. The research in 2007 undertaken by Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) of University of Cape Town has shown that 23 percent of students choose qualifications mainly for the employment opportunities. PROBLEM STATEMENT The study seeks to investigate factors that influence technological entrepreneurship and technological innovation of first year students using Walter Sisulu University as a case study. Shein, Crous and Schepers (2010: 1) in their recent research paper found that not only in growing economies such as South Africa, but in other economies, entrepreneurship takes a proactive role in businesses and contributes to job creation. Students admitted to universities in various technological programmes have a mindset of looking for employment on completion of their qualification, rather than of opening their own small and medium enterprises (SME’s). The main purpose of entrepreneurship education program is to provide the students with necessary entrepreneurship and business knowledge, to allow easy transition into private sector and carry out their businesses successively, Patıra and Karahanb (2010: 27). Stats SA shows...
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...Psychological Traits of an Entrepreneur What is an entrepreneur? One who starts a business from nothing? Someone who happens to create the next best thing? Well, both of these things would be considered an entrepreneur. However, there is no set in stone definition of what an entrepreneur actually is. Despite that, these types of people do differ from your everyday person. They possess specific characteristics that help influence how decisions are made, which is an enormous task in the process of starting up a business and eventually keeping it functional (Brouthers et al., 1998). So, what exactly are these traits that make entrepreneurs so much different than others? I, amongst many others, believe that there are definite attributes that entrepreneurs have that drive them to do what they do so well (or not so well). And as a typical American, I shall compare my most central psychological traits and compare it to those of an entrepreneur Entrepreneurs are motivated. They have some sort of drive that causes them to put so much time and effort in one of the hardest tasks to do today, starting a business. Entrepreneurs tend to have a need for achievement. This need for achievement, not only helps motivate and bring positive thoughts, but it can also have its negative factors. These could be frustration, which leads to mistakes, which could ultimately lead to unemployment (Shapero and Sokol 1982). Like entrepreneurs, I too have a need for achievement. For example, I always wanted...
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...terrible at time management and would like to get things done in a scheduled fashion, but I can admit I lack this trait in my personality. In my paper I would like present how communication and time management can help improve a worker under pressure. My message would say, “Have a plan, use a planner, and execute these plans with good communication!” My message clearly describes I need an organizer and an alarm clock to make sure that I am on time with my projects. I clearly did not do my discussion post on week one so I have to do this from beginning and explain my plans on my project. Step 2-3 The intended audience I chose for this message is college students who have a busy schedule and have 1-2 jobs or full time jobs. The typography I would like to showcase would be Display Type. In the book it states that is employed to flag and entice readers, deliver information quickly, and provide short bits of information efficiently (Ryan, 2012). The reason why I would like to go this route is because it shows a plain simple message for time managing. It can benefit readers in understanding the importance of time how valuable time management is an asset to our busy schedule. I wanted to use Microsoft Power Point to show my visual of how effective time managing can help improve our lives. I will show steps of how time management works and introduce skills and effective planning can help better with time managing. The other choices were step by step instructions through word, but...
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...Content page Introduction Entrepreneurship and the entrepreneur What makes a person start their own business? Similarities and difference of an entrepreneur and own manager Analysis of the entrepreneur Conclusion Introduction The company I choose to focus on for this assignment is innocent drink. Innocent drink is a smoothies company set up by three friends. In this assignment I shall focus on one of the founders which is Richard Reed. I will look into what inspired him to start his business, his upbringing, education, and his influences. I will link my findings to the 5 big personality traits and connect this to Richard Reed Innocent Drinks is a company that makes smoothies, juice and veg pots, sold in supermarkets, coffee shops and various other outlets. Its purpose is to make natural, delicious food and drink that helps people live well and die old (REFERENCE) Innocent was set up by a Richard, john and Adam, a group of friends that met each other in Cambridge University. It all started in 1999 where they were selling fresh juices at a music festival at their stall. A sign above the stall reads “Should we give up our jobs to make these smoothies?” and people are asked to throw their empties into bins marked ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. At the end of the day the YES vote won and they quit their jobs (REFERENCE) Richard was brought up in Yorkshire by both his parents, his mother kept two jobs and his dad worked long hours so they can put...
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...Rich Dad Poor Dad is a very interesting book. It is told as story of two Dads which in my perspective, exactly points out the difference between serviced oriented vision of most of the Indian students and business oriented vision in American youth. Poor Dad is like a typical father in middle class Indian family who expects the child to study hard, get degrees, find lucrative job, get promotions, stick to job and save money to build a secure old life. It represents middle class Indian mentality. Due to stiff competition, few succeed in getting high salaried job. But their dreams of becoming rich, seldom come true as there are so many takers whenever the savings accumulate, like govt, income tax etc. and he remains a middle class or at the most upper middle class citizen. Rich Dad represents family head in America who expects his child to become young entrepreneur. He deliberately exposes his child to real world, prompts the child to study how the money moves, how to get money, take risk, grab opportunity, increase assets than liability. He creates urge and desire in child to become business owner, do job initially to earn money not to be used as secure saving for future but as capital seed for his business. True business man knows that desire increases liability and so he spends money not in luxury consumable items or property which invites tax cuts but for investing in projects he knows which will reap benefits. He doesn’t learned himself to become expert and smart. He is...
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...eWhat it takes to be a successful Entrepreneur 1st year / 3rd Trimester Course: Industrial Management and Technology Teacher: Elisabete Lopes Student: Fernando Miranda Nº 1202750 0 Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 What is an entrepreneur? .................................................................................................... 4 Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? ...................................................... 4 A True Entrepreneur ........................................................................................................... 5 8 traits of successful entrepreneurs – Do You have what it takes? ..................................... 6 Example Of How An Entrepreneur Responds To An Opportunity .................................... 9 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 10 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................... 11 1 Abstract A successful Entrepreneur must have strong leadership qualities, highly self-motivated, strong sense of basic ethics and integrity, willingness to fail, serial innovators...
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...Topic: What causes students to drop out of college? With a competitive job market like these days, employers ask for not only real experiences but also a certain degree in university when you apply for a job. The higher your degree is, the more decent the salary is going to be. Knowing this fact, however, some students still fail to finish their degree before graduating. There are many reasons, subjective and objective ones, why people cannot follow the higher education path till the end. The following three are the most popular causes among the uni-droppers. The first and main cause is financial burden. University fee is a nightmare for most students who just receive little or no support from their parents because it normally accounts for over one third of their income. Besides, they have to cover not only tuition fees but also textbooks which are not cheap for tertiary education. This is not to mention about the students who go to university in another region. They will have to pay for other expenses such as house rent, bills, commuting, medicare, etc. So, there is no choice but to work part-time to pay for the university. By working and studying at the same time like this, it’s easy to fall behind and quit if they are not a good time-manager. In contrast, some students who are well- supported financially want to try how different life is outside the school gate. They suddenly realize that they have made a wrong decision to waste time on daily commute to school, handing...
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...Chapter 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems Case 2: IT and Geo-Mapping Help a Small Business Succeed Tags: Entrepreneurship; Sales Strategy Management; Sales Tea Collection; Small business IT; geo-mapping technology; Summary: Emily Meyer and Leigh Rawdon started The Tea Collection, a children’s clothing wholesaler business in 2002. Their first product line consisted of three baby sweaters and a single shop. Today The Tea Collection has expanded to over 300 department and boutique stores and now includes women’s clothing. Information technologies played a critical role in their success from design, to production, customer targeting and marketing. L=4:57 URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_GmukX5sfM Case IT is not just for huge, multi-national companies. Small business entrepreneurs use a variety of information technologies to do all the things much larger firms do, but on a much smaller budget. IT allows small firms to act and look like much larger firms, amplifying the power of entrepreneurs, and creating the conditions for sustained and rapid growth. The Tea Collection (teacollection.com) exemplifies how entrepreneurs can use inexpensive but powerful information technologies to create a successful business. The Tea Collection was founded by Emily Meyer and Leigh Rawdon in 2002 in San Francisco with just three pima cotton baby sweaters and a vision of bringing the fusion of worldwide cultures and modern design to fashion. Emily Meyer grew up in Texas...
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