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1.1.1- enterprise and entrepreneurship Flashcards

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What is an enterprise?

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A business or a company

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Who is an entrepreneur?

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Someone who creates a business

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What’s a business enterprise?

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The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial aspects

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Consumer

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Someone who buys/uses goods and services

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Obsolete

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Out of date

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Planned obsolete

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The business have made a product to last a short amount of time

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What the difference between goods and services?

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Good’s = they can be touched (tangible)
Services = intangible

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Characteristics of an entrepreneur are?

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-hard working
-smart
-innovative

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Skills of an entrepreneur are?

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-communication
-numeracy
-problem solving

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Steps in order to have a business:

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-generating an idea
-asking how the idea could have added value
-conducting market research
-drawing a business plan
-deciding on legal structure
-raising finances

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How do new business ideas come about?

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-changes in technology
-changes in consumer wants
-product becomes obsolete

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Why do new business ideas come about?

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-original ideas
-advancing an excising product

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What can make a product become obsolete?

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-changes in trends
-changes in technology
-changes in economy

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How could a business use inventions?

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This means the use an existing product and adapt it to make it better this means the business will be unique and avoid competitors

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How could a business use innovations?

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They make a new product that’s not on the market which will lead to the business having a product that no other competitors have.

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Why would someone set up a business?

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Financial motives-profit is the driving force of an entrepreneur setting up a business
Non-financial motives-they think they are capable of earning from the business

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What risks does an entrepreneur take?

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-financial debt
-business failure

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What’s meant by adding value?

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The additional features added to a product or service before offering them to costumers

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How can u add value to a product?

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-convenience
-branding
-quality
-unique selling point

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What’s the benefit of adding value to a product?

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When a good or service is made appealing to costumers, they will usually be more willing to pay more for the product or service which increases the amount of profit a business can make

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What is market research?

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The process of evaluating the valiability of a new product or services though conducting research

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Why is market research important?

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It allows a company to define its target market and get feedback from consumers about their interest in a product or services

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What does finding a gap in the market mean?

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When u have identified something costumers need that isn’t already on the market doesn’t exist

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Why is finding a gap in the market good?

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Presents businesses with opportunities to innovate and expand their reach

25
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What’s primary research?

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First handed research

26
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Example of primary research:

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-focus group
-questionnaires
-interview
-survey

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What are advantages of primary research?

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-the information is up to date
-no one has access to it
-easy and quick to obtain

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What are disadvantages of primary research?

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-expensive
-time consuming
-biased data

29
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What’s secondary research?

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Using research that already exists

30
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Example of secondary research:

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-magazine
-report
-articles
-books

31
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What are disadvantages of secondary research?

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-less exploratory (not as unique)
-may be obsolete

32
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What are advantages of secondary research?

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-low cost
-easy to access
-increase breadth of knowledge
-less time consuming

33
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What’s quantitive research?

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Focuses on numeric data and unchanging data

34
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Example of quantitive research:

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-survey research
-descriptive research
-experimental research

35
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Advantages of quantitive research:

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-fast
-focused
-scientific
-relatable

36
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Disadvantages of quantitive research?

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-less detailed pictures
-not good at capturing feelings of the costumer

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What’s qualitative research?

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Peoples opinions and motivations

38
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Example of qualitative research:

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Product managers use this to find out more about what customers want and need

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Advantages and disadvantages of qualitative research:

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-a deeper understanding on consumer needs
-feelings and opinions
Disadvantage:
-time consuming
-cant be shown on a graph

40
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What is an entrepreneur personally liable for?

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The debts of the failed business

41
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Why is it important for some start up businesses to select private limited companies?

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If they don’t they take the risk that if the business fails the entrepreneur will lose all their investment and will be stuck in debt to the bank

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What causes there to be a risk of business failures?

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-poor management
-poor market research
-start up costs are too high
-unexpected changes

43
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How can a new business reduce the risk of business failure?

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-finance with care- when an entrepreneurs own savings shares and retained profits are safer that Holland as the sources of finance don’t need to be paid back
-keep costs down
-advertising

44
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List three costumer needs:

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-convenience
-offers the quality expected
-right product/service

45
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What’s meant by sampling in a market?

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When market researches aim for 95 percent confidence in the results meaning that the data is correct 19 times out of 20

46
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What’s a sample?

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A group of respondents who are selected to be representatives of a new product

47
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Advantages of samples:

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-saves money
-lack of bias
-efficient
-not time consuming

48
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Disadvantages of samples:

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-if the sampling frame is large random sampling may be to impractical
-bias
-not large enough to get the whole populations data

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