1. My grandfather‚ because he owned multiple successful businesses. 2. Automobile sales and vendor sales 3. Most employees are part of my family. We have multiple divisions of the business‚ including advertising‚ vendor spacing‚ auction management‚ and ticket sales. It is a sole proprietorship founded and currently owned by myself‚ but I plan to pass it down to my children. 4. An advantage to my method of business organization is the trust and knowledge of my employees considering most of them
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Entrepreneur Interview with Larry Godwin‚ Owner of Godwin Company‚ Inc. Danielle Grider Ivy Tech Community College Intro to Business 101-03H-H1 Charlie Svihlik October 21‚ 2012 Entrepreneur Interview with Larry Godwin‚ owner of Godwin Company‚ Inc. The person I chose to interview is the owner of the company at my current place of work. Larry Godwin is the owner of Godwin Company‚ Inc‚ which is a forklift and golf car sales
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The 1920s had seen robust economic growth in the United States. Mass-production techniques and the growing availability of electricity allowed industries to increase their output—and profits—dramatically. Employment levels surged‚ and many workers saw improvements in their standards of living. Consumer demand for new products also drove creation of new loan programs: for the first time middle-class Americans were able to purchase such goods as refrigerators‚ washing machines‚ and automobiles by making
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company I couldn´t even see him because he is very dedicated to his business and keeps innovating and implementing new growing strategy. After seeing all his efforts and work‚ I believe he is very dedicated to his business and that he is a real entrepreneur because he is not scared to success in an economic crisis situation. Opportunity identification. My friend identified this business opportunity thanks to his background‚ working and learning how the industry was behaving‚ and what factors were
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What is an Entrepreneur? Debated for many years‚ this vital question to the study of entrepreneurship continues to be criticised and analysed by some of the worlds leading researchers. The term entrepreneur comes from the French word entreprendre‚ which means to under take or to go between. Entrepreneurship did not really emerge into the UK until the Thatcher years (1970s) after the de-regulation of many of the country ’s companies including gas‚ electricity‚ water and the railways. It was almost
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Characteristics of entrepreneurs------------------------------------------------------3 Am I an entrepreneurial “type” of person? -----------------------------------------4 The influence of contexts on entrepreneurial characteristics-------------------5 “Family business” ------------------------------------------------------------------------5 “Small business owners” ----------------------------------------------------------------6 Conclusion----------------------------------------------------------------------------------6
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most common characteristics associated with successful entrepreneurs‚ entrepreneur self-assessment and the differences between the entrepreneur‚ the small businessman and the managers. Topic 2 Identifying Entrepreneurial Characteristics LEARNING OUTCOMES By the end of this topic‚ you should be able to: 1. Identify sixteen characteristics of successful entrepreneurs; 2. Evaluate your entrepreneurial inclination potential using the entrepreneur self- assessment test; and 3. Describe at least three
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Entrepreneur Report Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are life-long friends and the cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade‚ Incorporated- a American ice cream company which manufactures ice cream‚ frozen yogurt‚ sorbet‚ and ice cream novelty products. They originally decided to go into the food business making bagels but found that the machines would be too expensive and settled on ice cream instead by taking a $5 course at Pennsylvania State University; an idea that
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Characteristics of an entrepreneur Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as leaders‚[10] similar to the early great man theories of leadership; however trait-based theories of entrepreneurship are increasingly being called into question. Entrepreneurs are often contrasted with managers and administrators who are said to be more methodical and less prone to risk-taking. Such person-centric models of entrepreneurship have shown to be of questionable validity‚ not least as many real-life
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Young Entrepreneur -The Way Ahead -Vivek Krishna.K Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations‚ particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking‚ as a majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects
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