Chapter: 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction: Entrepreneurs are arguably the most important actors in our economy: the creators of new wealth and new jobs‚ the inventors of new products and services‚ and the revolutionizes of society and the economy. Yet despite their centrality‚ little is known about entrepreneurs: what motivates them‚ how they emerge‚ why they succeed. We know even less about who becomes an entrepreneur‚ and why. Women are one particularly understudied group of entrepreneurs. We know
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and assumes the risks of conducting a business. An entrepreneur can be described as a agent for change. He is a person who is willing to take risks - usually financial - in the pursuit of new ventures to make profits. (Casson‚ 2002) According to Schumpeter “entrepreneurs are innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo
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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA By SAHEED AKINMAYỌWA LAWAL Department of Sociology University of Ibadan Nigeria. Tel+234(0)8058536815 Email: akinmayowalawal@yahoo.co.uk Paper Presented at the First African Entrepreneurship Seminar‚ organised by School of Entrepreneurship and Business‚ University of Essex‚ U.K‚ Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria‚ University of Abuja‚ and Bayero University‚ Kano. Held at Conference Room (Anambra)‚
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Are You Cut Out to Be a Successful Entrepreneur? ABSTRACT First‚ there was an interview with a successful entrepreneur. Second‚ there was a talk on entrepreneurship by a guest speaker‚ Mr. Azmi Ahmad (the CEO of Skali.com) and later‚ an "elevator speech" by fellow students on various issues related to entrepreneurship. This collective information and some reading on entrepreneurship journals‚ books and articles have brought to the idea on writing this paper‚ towards certain perspective‚ on successful
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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: Women entrepreneurs may be defined as a woman or a group of women who initiate‚ organize and run a business enterprise. In terms of Schumpeterian concept of innovative entrepreneurs‚ women who innovate‚ initiate or adopt a business activity are called business entrepreneur. It is the group of women or single women running an enterprise or company in order to earn profit. Now days because of women empowerment women are stepping-stone into the industries and are taking the
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Challenges of Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh Despite all their family and social problems‚ women have struggled hard to achieve their own identity. Women from all classes of Bangladesh want to stand up before everyone in their own right and not as someone’s daughter or wife. Women can be a very caring homemaker‚ but at the same time she can prove to be a highly skilled Entrepreneur‚ an efficient employee‚ an administrator if they choose to be. Realizing that the advancement of women can not be
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College of Business Pillars Edgar Martinez Grand Canyon University Introduction to Graduate Studies in the College of Business Tanya Roundtree May 13‚ 2015 As one of the top-rated‚ premier business schools available in the United States‚ within the southwest region‚ you will find the ACBSP accredited Grand Canyon University (GCU) nestled within the Arizonan desert in Phoenix. Their mission statement incorporates; Challenge which inspires its thousands of students to be better servant
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Three Pillars Essay Clurttie Morant Grand Canyon University In today’s society‚ business majors would often ask‚ how will the three pillars formulate us as individuals to become ambitious business leaders? This prodigious university motivate us as well as challenges us business majors to grow into great servant leaders which will help us become more proficient with our business skills as well as our standards‚ so that way we business majors can be more prosperous and partake an optimistic influence
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream Assessing the Organization’s External Environment April 30‚ 2011 In the film Tucker: The Man and His Dream‚ the main character Tucker is an ambitious entrepreneur. He invented a car often thought of as produced before its time‚ with safety features and aerodynamics that were thought of as futuristic. These innovations also presented a threat to the big three automakers in Detroit. The film highlights and closely examines many of the hardships Tucker endured
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"Be Unique". A flavor‚ that I wish is a part of everything I do. Occasionally‚ my conscious attempts towards achieving this have been rewarded like winning personality contests or being a ‘Lead Infy’ finalist. I have had moments of failures too. In the long term‚ I aspire to be an Entrepreneur with an innovative business model. As a guitarist I yearned for an “automatic guitar tuner”‚ this became the topic of my graduation project. Other instances such as utilizing a rented SUV as transport
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