This is the complete summary of all the chapters and articles relevant for the entrepreneurship exam, plus a summary of all the lectures and tutorials, with the corresponding papers (relevant for the exam), in the end.
Byers Chapters: 1, 2
Nielsen Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 5
Articles:
'Why the lean star...
Summary – Entrepreneurship
Byers Chapter 1: The role and promise of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs strive to make a difference in our world and to contribute to its betterment. They identify
opportunities, mobilize resources, and relentlessly execute on their visions.
1.1 Entrepreneurship in Context
- Entrepreneurs identify and pursue solutions among problems, possibilities among needs, and
opportunities among challenges
o Seek to achieve a certain goal by starting an organization that will address the needs of
society and the marketplace
o Prepared to respond to a challenge to overcome obstacles and build a business
- Entrepreneurship focused on creation of new enterprise that serves society and makes positive
change
- Challenge = a call to respond to a difficult task and the commitment to undertake the required
enterprise
- Opportunity = a favorable juncture of circumstances with a good chance for success or progress
o Job of entrepreneur to locate new ideas, determine whether they are actual
opportunities, put them into action
- First step: identify the hypotheses associated with an idea
- Then, test these hypotheses by engaging with knowledgeable individuals -> potential customer,
employees, partners
- Three key things necessary to creating a successful startup:
o Start with good people.
o Make something that people actually want and are willing to pay for.
o Spend as little money as possible while you validate the market and your product
acceptance by buyers.
- Four steps to starting a business:
o 1. necessary skills existent or acquire them
o 2. identify the opportunity that attracts them and matches their skills and create a
solution to match the opportunity
o 3. acquire (or possess) the financial and physical resources necessary to launch the
business by locating investors and partners.
o 4. complete an arrangement or contract with their partners, with investors, and within
the founder team to launch the business and share the ownership and wealth created.
- Entrepreneurship is centrally focused on the identification and exploitation of previously
unexploited opportunities.
1.2 Economics and the firm
- Society works through entrepreneurs to effectively manage its material, environmental, and
human resources to achieve widespread prosperity
o Entrepreneurs are people who arrange novel organizations or solutions to problems
- Nations wealth is its food, housing, transportation, health care, and other goods and services
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