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New Venture Experience - Vesper
Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Class at Loyola University Maryland
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Management
Undergraduate 4
10/27/2011

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Term
Entrepreneur
Definition
one who introduces something better to the world of commerce by taking initiative and risk that results in business ownership and management for a profit.
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Entrepreneurship
Definition
This consists of leading in creation of a new business to produce and deliver that something better, in the view of customers, to the marketplace.
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Key Ingredients of a New Venture
Definition
Contacts, Good Ideas, Physical Resources, Technical Know-how, Customer Orders
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5 thought modes of entrepreneurial thinking
Definition
Absorptive, Analytic, Divergent, Projective, and Integrative.
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New Venture Process
Definition
Surveying, Searching, Screening, Projecting, Action
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Opportunity
Definition
A situation where one or more people can introduce an improvement.
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Business opportunity
Definition
A situation where the improvement can earn a profit
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Entrepreneurship opportunity
Definition
A situation where the improvement can enable creation of an adequately profitable new business.
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Ideas
Definition
conceptions of ways to exploit opportunities.
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Entrepreneurial Opportunity rests
Definition
the misalignment of supply and demand, and arises from the possibility of changing both.
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Perennials
Definition
Business opportunities which could be released at any time (generally they haven't been thought of yet). In other words their innovations on the current market.
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Occasionals
Definition
Business opportunities created by circumstantial changes.
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Examples of Driving Forces
Definition
Business environment changes, Enablers, Impellers, and Confluence
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Examples of Business Environment Changes as driving forces
Definition
Economic Dislocations, Governmental actions, Resistance reduction
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Examples of Enablers as driving forces
Definition
Technical discoveries, resource emergence
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Examples of Impellers as driving forces
Definition
Market emergence, profit chain evoltuion
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Chains
Definition
New opportunities from the same industry
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Trees
Definition
New opportunities from different industries
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Cascades
Definition
New opportunities from many companies in the same industry
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Multi-effect cascades
Definition
New opportunities from many companies many industries
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Dawn Rate
Definition
The time it takes before someone recognizes an opportunity is present.
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Outcrops
Definition
Clues to the presence of an entrepreneurial opportunity.
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Vantage Points
Definition
The degree to which an opportunity is easily recognized based on where someone is at in their life.
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Hindsight Effect
Definition
The effect of an opportunity being clear in hindsight but now so clear in foresight.
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Visibility
Definition
How obvious the opportunity is.
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Proximity
Definition
The closeness to the potential opportunity.
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Searching by gap analysis
Definition
Looking within markets for opportunities missing within those markets.
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Searching for Market Holes
Definition
Examining current offerings for bargains or features not yet offered.
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Searching by action
Definition
When an initiative must be taken and progress must be made before they can be seen.
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Internal Drivers of Discovery
Definition
When the entrepreneur believes they have the capacity to deliver something somebody else might like to have.
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Technology Transfer
Definition
The transfer of developments in technology between organizations or people for others to exploit.
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Customer pull
Definition
When Entrepreneurs work back from an awareness that the market wants something, the marshal the capability to deliver it.
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