School:Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship involves taking actions that earn money and that create changes in society related to those actions. The changes can be positive or negative. It is best if they are positive, ethical, legal and help to all humans (see /discussion about the definition of entrepreneurship/)

Welcome!
Welcome to the School of Entrepreneurship, part of the Practical Arts and Sciences

Entrepreneurship
Innovative and creative person or a pathway to Self-Employment

The entrepreneur is popularly defined as the person who assumes the risks and costs associated with starting one's own business. This general view is not accepted by many scholars. According to the critics, the person who comes to grief if the business fails, is the fund supplying capitalist (or the financer) who has to bear the losses, so the entrepreneurs, with little investment in the venture, won't bear much of the risk. The concept of entrepreneurship is also generally thought to be similar to the concept of self-employment. The two are synonymous in the sense that persons who are entrepreneurs and those who are self-employed take responsibility to pay themselves rather than work for fixed wages determined by employers. As such both the entrepreneur and the self-employed hope to determine how much they are paid and to control their working hours the structure of their work. In fact, as most of the entrepreneurs would also agree, the main function of the entrepreneurs is to innovate. Now, innovation is not Invention or R&D type of things. Innovation, among other things, would mean commercial application of an idea. It is not difficult to innovate, though it requires a bit of practice and mental training. For example, suggest some design modifications for a pen so that it can be used in a use other than writing! We may put some memory chip into it and it becomes an identification pen, or if we print short messages on it, it becomes an effective advertising media. Can you suggest more? In simple training session with undergraduate students in India (Chandigarh) some 1000 modifications were identified. Go on, suggest some more and get a feel of an entrepreneur in making.

Who is the Entrepreneur?
Who is the self-employed person?

The entrepreneur is a responsible person that decides to take charge of his or her own life and ideas, and secondly the life and ideas of others. He or she is the person who identifies what people need or might need to make them more comfortable and decide to take on the responsibility to serve those needs.

The entrepreneur is the person that seizes the opportunity to serve others, despite the dangers and the risks associated with serving people's needs, including their unidentified ones.

The entrepreneur decides to use his or her life and ideas or a portion of his or her life and ideas to ensure that other persons get what they need or get what will make their life more comfortable and happy as they live on earth.


 * From the SBA
 * www.business.gov/phases/launching/are_you_ready/glossary.html

Learning resources

 * Internet entrepreneurship
 * Social entrepreneurship
 * Business

Courses

 * Conservation Entrepreneurship
 * Innovative Entrepreneurship (LiU)

Start Ups: How To
Restaurants, coffee shops, bars, a massage practice, fashion designing, performance arts, and many other similar businesses are seen as a fulfilling enterprises for the many would-be entrepreneurs around the world. They are popular because they involve hobbies where enthusiasts already spend much of their spare time learning and practicing. For instance, the dream of starting a restaurant is shared by many food lovers who cook frequently for their families, friends, and community. If the proper steps are taken, an amateur cook can become a professional chef. Below is a list of entrepreneurial categories that link to step-by-step pages about how to turn one's craft into a prosperous start up enterprise. (please add to this list of start-up businesses)

Food and Drinks
 * Coffee
 * Bar(alcohol)
 * Dining
 * Fast food
 * Street vendor
 * Health food/drink
 * Seasonal food/drink
 * Catering
 * Delivery

Craftsmanship, Entertainment and Services Professional
 * Massage
 * Handmade products
 * Health and fitness training
 * Visual arts
 * Music
 * Theatrical and performance arts
 * Pet services
 * Cleaning and maintenance
 * Accounting and financial services
 * Health Care
 * Legal Services
 * Consulting

Education and Community Online
 * Children(general)
 * Seniors(general)
 * Families(general)
 * Awareness and fund raising
 * Seasonal activities
 * Event planning
 * Charity
 * Technical support
 * Developer
 * E-commerce
 * Blogging and niche' websites
 * Affiliate Marketing

Local Learning Projects
Lunar Boom Town is a multidisciplinary activity where engineers, business people, and space enthusiasts can hone their applicable skills investigating generic business models and industrial processes applicable to near term lunar settlements. If technical data is required there to complete a business planning activity seek assistance at the appropriate technical school or other participants discussion page.

School News

 * May 1, 2007 - Start-Up Business Financing content available
 * August 21, 2006 - School founded!

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better (for large schools it is not needed).


 * Since 30 November 2013‎ with Funding and my own business since March 1992! Bringing the Future into the Present! --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 05:42, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

Things you can do!

 * Clean up Draft:Economics and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Funding and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Gift economy and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Insider trading and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Laws and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Monopolistic practices and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
 * Clean up Draft:Repellor vehicles and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.

Wikimedia

 * List of venture capital firms

"The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job." (Michael Gerber)

Entrepreneurship Education

 * Babson College
 * University of Waterloo - Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology
 * Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

In US

 * New Hampshire Virtual Business Incubator
 * SCORE

In UK

 * Bizhelp24
 * Business Link
 * British Chambers of Commerce
 * Bytestart
 * Clearly Business
 * Companies House
 * National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
 * Small Business Ideas
 * Small business advice service
 * Smarta
 * Small Business Service
 * Startups.co.uk
 * Your Business Service
 * SmallBusiness.co.uk

Bank Links/Business Angels/Other Financing

 * Barclays Business Banking
 * British Business Angels Association
 * British Venture Capital Association
 * Cooperative Bank Business Banking
 * European Venture Capital Association
 * HSBC Business Banking
 * Grant database
 * Lloyds TSB Business Banking
 * Natwest Business Banking
 * NESTA
 * Prince's Trust
 * Royal Bank of Scotland Business Banking

Business Plans

 * Teneric Business Plans
 * Business Plan Services
 * Startbusiness.co.uk
 * Readyplanning.com
 * DIYBizPlan.com

IT Support

 * Sage Startup
 * Technology Means Business
 * Droisys - The on Demand Technology Services Company

Interviews with Entrepreneurs
About their Lessons Learned and Advice for Other Entrepreneurs
 * Startup Studio

Marketing

 * New2Marketing.com
 * BizAmmo: Marketing

Intellectual Property

 * The UK Patent Office
 * Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys

Ideas

 * Springwise-Entrepreneurial Ideas

Buy a business

 * Business-Sale.com

Franchising

 * British Franchising
 * Canadian Franchising

News

 * Business 2.0
 * Entrepreneur
 * inc.com
 * Growth Business
 * Red Herring
 * Telegraph Business Club
 * The Times Business
 * List of trade magazines
 * Forbes