Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur By Stuart Skorman with Catherine Guthrie. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 214 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by Kristin M. Chunn, Temple University-Philadelphia Who has a shot at killing the ordinary entrepreneur’s career path? A serial entrepreneur of course! What is the difference between the two? Well, an entrepreneur is someone who generally establishes a single business and maintains it as their career. Whereas, a serial entrepreneur, is someone who starts
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Apply the Timmons entrepreneurship framework (entrepreneur-opportunity-resources) to analyze this case 1. Opportunity for entrepreneurship Discovering problem is the key for successful entrepreneurship, it means look into problem is chance to be success. Mr. Poss discovered issue that garbage trucks consume many pereoleum.This was waste energy and time. In addition, recently years, ECO friendly market has become more and more hugely in the recent years, particularly in west countries. Many west
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1) Can you tell me about yourself?(education) 2) How did you get started in this business? 3) Did you found the company? 4) Is this your first business? (If not, ask what the others were, and what happened to them.) 5) Were you exposed to entrepreneurship as a child (say, from family members or friends)? 6) How did you decide the location of this business? 7) How did you finance your business? What have been your most effective sources of financing over
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1. I learned that, being an entrepreneur, you are required to take more risks than anybody else. Flying a plane with no direction is a constant casual situation in business. In this area of business, emotional breakdown and surprises are going to appear all the time. b. I think I earned the scores because majority of the trait that I lack are financial management. Managing my money has always been constantly a trouble for me. To be an entrepreneur, you have to be cautious on what you spend and
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fixed and the enterpreneur bore the risk of profit and loss from the bargain. In the eighteen century ,the term was applied in france in several way ; cantillon in 1725 referred to entrepreneurs as risk bearing .But he tried to differentiate the entrepreneurs who provide capital or funds from those who relied on their own labour and resources. That showed an entrepreneurial role as independent of the capitalist role Quesnay considered
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2010). When I first read this quote I really can see my cousin living a few years most people won’t, but his life now us set for his children and his grandchildren. Many entrepreneurs have very strong characteristics and similar ambitions as Tino has. It is said that to have a successful business, one must obtain entrepreneur qualities. Diligent and hard working, they strive through the ups and downs of start-up companies as I was told during the interview with Mr. Corona. They are "self starters"
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successful creative communications agency. About Shane Wall Shane Wall is a passionate entrepreneur, who currently manages the creative communications agency ‘Abundant’. Before Shane Wall got into the creative communications agency he had many previous jobs, for example: working as a DJ providing entertainment at weddings and working for BBC radio in technical administrations. Shane became an entrepreneur in the early stages of his career, when he set up a holiday business with one of his friends
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Entrepreneurs are born and not made An entrepreneur is ‘a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome.’ So are entrepreneurs born? Or made? There have been many debates from businessmen to academics alike on whether entrepreneurs are born or made, but is it as straight forward as that? In this essay I will evaluate arguments both for and against this statement and conclude it with my own personal observation
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授課教師： 郭瑞祥 Andy Guo (台大工商管理學系/商研所教授) Room：Room 813, building 2, Management school Email ： rsguo@ntu.edu.tw Website：guo.ba.ntu.edu.tw Course Descriptions This course is about The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM), and it is designed to focus on the Entrepreneur as a manager and the processes and techniques he or she uses to manage. In practice this means that in every case there is a person who must make some decisions and take the necessary actions to implement those decisions. There is a very important
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consumers purchase the most widely consumed food item in America — ice. The process of combining water and cold temperature that hasn’t changed much since the Chinese cut and stored ice in 1,000 B.C is seeing a dramatic consumer shift. Why? Because an entrepreneur — a retired businessman — came up with an innovative new approach, combining the ice cube with an ATM vending style concept with the capability of making up to 13,000 pounds of ice per day. The packaged ice business, despite its lack of glamour
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