What is Entrepreneurship and Business Development
An entrepreneur is a person who creates small businesses. Entrepreneurs are calculated risk-takers---they strive to maximize potential of their venture while simultaneously minimizing risk. They are able to recognize opportunities as they arise and create goods or services in order to take advantage of the opportunity before competitors catch on to it. Entrepreneurs may create new products or services, improve on current products or services, or simply find a new way to market existing products or services (Michael Paul, University of Wisconsin)
Entrepreneurship is the process of creating or seizing an opportunity, and pursuing it regardless of the resources currently controlled. The American Heritage Dictionary defines an entrepreneur to be "a person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for business ventures." (www.jbv.com, 9/07)
Additional Career Planning Resources
http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/Hotlinks/careerplanning.htm
Owner
Manager
Director
President
Chief Executive Officer
Because they often run new ventures themselves, entrepreneurs must know how to operate every aspect of their business. Typically, this includes the areas of:
- Managing the business on a day-to-day basis
- Advertising, selling, and distributing the product or service (marketing)
- Accounting or keeping financial records for the business
- Hiring personnel to assist with the business
- Production of finished goods or services
- Be non-conformist
- Motivated by achievement
- Have a preference for innovation
- Possess high uncertainty tolerance
Job & Internship Search Links
Global Student Entrepreneur http://www.gsea.org/
FastCompany.com http://www.fastcompany.com/cof/
YoungEntrepreneur.com http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/
WomenEntrepreneur.com http://www.womenentrepreneur.com/
Entrepreneur.com http://www.entrepreneur.com/hiringcenter/index.html
The Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation of Entrepreneurship http://www.kauffman.org
Career Planning Links
Top Start Ups www.topstartups.com
Entrepreneurship and Business Development program at UNCW’s Cameron School of Business - www.csb.uncw.edu/mgt/courses/ebd/ebd.htm
Professional Associations Links
All business.com http://www.allbusiness.com
American Franchisee Association http://www.franchisee.org
International Franchise Association www.franchise.org
National Association of Home Based Business www.usahomebusiness.com
Students in Free Enterprise www.sife.org
US Small Business Administration www.sba.gov
American Small Businesses Association http://www.asbaonline.org
Institute for Business Innovation http://www.nyibi.com/about.shtml
Michigan Business & Professional Association http://www.michbusiness.org
National Federation of Independent Business-Hawaii http://www.nfib.com
National Small Business Association http://www.nsba.biz
Small Business Council of America http://www.sbca.net
Small Business Legislative Council http://www.sblc.org
Miscellaneous Resources Links
Entrepreneurship Club at UNCW - http://www.csb.uncw.edu/studentorg/entrepreneurship/new/index.html
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce http://www.wilmingtonchamber.org
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