Entrepreneurship - What's It ?...

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Entrepreneurship - What's It ?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonarias Entrepreneurship is the practice of designing, starting and running a new company, which is often originally a little business. The men and women who create these businesses are known as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship was described as the "capability and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business enterprise along with some of its risks so as to make a profit". While definitions of entrepreneurship typically revolve around the start and running of companies, because of the high risks involved with launching a start-up, a significant proportion of start-up companies must close because of "lack of funding, bad business decisions, an economic crisis, lack of market demand--or even a mixture of all of them. Entrepreneurship is the action of being an entrepreneur, or even "an operator or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through danger and initiative". Entrepreneurs act as managers and oversee the launch and growth of a venture. Entrepreneurship is the process by which an individual or a staff identifies a business opportunity and acquires and deploys the essential resources needed for its exploitation. Early 19th century French economist Jean-Baptiste Say provided a broad definition of entrepreneurship, stating that it "shifts economic resources from an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and higher return". Entrepreneurs create something new, something different-they change or transmute values. Irrespective of the business size, big or small, they can partake in entrepreneurship opportunities. The opportunity to become an entrepreneur needs four standards. First, there needs to be opportunities or situations to recombine resources to create profit. Secondly, entrepreneurship requires differences between people, such as preferential access to certain people or the ability to recognize details about opportunities. Third, taking on risk is quite necessary. The entrepreneurial process demands the organization of people and resources. The entrepreneur is a factor in microeconomics and the study of entrepreneurship reaches to the job of Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. But, entrepreneurship was largely ignored theoretically until the late 19th and early 20th centuries and empirically until a deep resurgence in economics and business since the late 1970s. In the 20th century, the understanding of entrepreneurship owes much to the work of economist Joseph Schumpeter from the 1930s and other Austrian economists like Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek. According to Schumpeter, an entrepreneur is a person who is willing and ready to convert a brand


new idea or innovation into a successful invention. Entrepreneurship employs what Schumpeter called "the gale of creative destruction" to substitute in whole or part inferior innovations across markets and industries, simultaneously producing new products including new business models. This manner, creative destruction is largely responsible for its dynamism of industries and long-term economic development. The supposition that entrepreneurship leads to economic development is an interpretation of the remaining in endogenous growth theory and as this is hotly debated in academic economics. An alternate description posited by Israel Kirzner suggests that nearly all innovations could be more incremental improvements such as the replacement of paper with plastic from the making of drinking straws. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2017/12/04/five-ways-to-stay-motivated-and-hit-your-business-g oals/


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