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Md. Salauddin Khan
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Md.Rayhan Ali Rejvi
(19-09788)
Md. Foyaz Ahmed
(19-09793)
Partha Sarathi Howlader
(19-09816)
Monia Tamjid Fagun
(19-09850)
Najnin Sultana Niha
(20-10861)
Umme Habiba Polin
(20-10869)
Miraz Ahmed
(20-10872)
Fatema Akter Nisa
(20-10876)
Snigdha Sur
(20-10894)
Shahed Alam Shawon
(20-10912)
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Group 4
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An Overview Of…..
1.The Foundation of Entrepreneurship
2. Inside The Entrepreneurial Mind From Ideas
To Reality
3. Designing A Competitive Business Model
And Building A Solid Strategic Plan
4. Conducting a feasibility analysis and crafting
a winning business plan
5. Building a Powerful Guerrilla Marketing Plan
6. E-commerce and the Entrepreneur
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Objective 1
Define therole of the entrepreneur in
business around the world.
“Small is beautiful.”
 Factor-Driven Economy
 Efficiency –Driven Economy
 Innovation-Driven Economy
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Objective 2
Describe theentrepreneurial profile
Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship
Characteristics of an Entrepreneur
 Desire for responsibility
 Preference for moderate levels of risk
 Self-reliance
 Confidence in their ability to succeed
 Determination
 Desire for immediate feedback
 High level of energy
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Objective 3
Describe thebenefits and drawbacks of entrepreneurship.
Benefits
The opportunity to:
 Create your own destiny.
 Make a difference.
 Reach your full potential.
 Reap impressive profits.
Drawbacks
 Uncertainty of income
 Long hours and hard work
 High levels of stress
 Complete responsibility
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Objective 4
Explain theforces that are driving the
growth of entrepreneurship.
Several factors are driving the boom in
entrepreneurship, including
 The portrayal of entrepreneurs as heroes
 Better entrepreneurial education
 Economic and demographic factors
 A shift to a service economy
 Technology advancements
 Independent lifestyle
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Objective 5
Explain thecultural diversity of entrepreneurship
Several groups are leading the nation’s
drive toward entrepreneurship:
 Young entrepreneurs
 Women entrepreneurs
 Minority-owned enterprises
 Immigrant entrepreneurs
 Part-time entrepreneurs
 Home-based businesses
 Family businesses
 Copreneurs
 Corporate castoffs
 Corporate dropouts
 Retiring baby boomers
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Objective 6
Describe theimportant role that small
businesses play in our nation’s economy
The small business sector’s contributions are many:
 They make up 99.7 percent of all businesses
 Employ 49.2 percent of the private sector workforce
 Have created nearly two-thirds of the net new jobs in the economy
 Produce 46 percent of the country’s private GDP, and
 Account for 47 percent of all business sales
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Objective 7
Put failureinto the proper perspective
 Entrepreneurs recognize that failure is a
natural part of the creative process.
 Successful entrepreneurs have the attitude
that failures are simply stepping-stones along
the path to success, and they refuse to be
paralyzed by a fear of failure.
 Successful entrepreneurs learn to fail
intelligently.
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Objective 8
Explain howan entrepreneur can avoid
becoming another failure statistic.
Entrepreneurs can employ several general tactics to
avoid these pitfalls:
 Know your business in depth
 Build a viable business model – and test it
 Develop a solid business plan
 Understand financial statements
 Manage financial resources
 Learn to manage people effectively
 Set your business apart from the competition
 Maintain a positive attitude
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Objective 1
Explain thedifferences among creativity,
innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Creativity is the ability to develop new ideas and to
discover new ways of looking at problems and
opportunities.
Innovation is the ability to apply creative solutions
to those problems and opportunities to enhance or
to enrich people’s lives.
Entrepreneurship is the result of a disciplined,
systematic process of applying creativity and
innovation to needs and opportunities in the
marketplace.
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Objective 2
Describe whycreativity and innovation are
such an integral part of entrepreneurship.
Success—even survival—in this fiercely competitive,
global environment requires entrepreneurs to
tap their creativity (and that of their employees)
constantly
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Objective 3
Understand howthe two hemispheres of the human
brain function and what role they play in creativity.
The left hemisphere of the brain
controls language, logic, and
symbols, processing information in
a step-by-step fashion
The right hemisphere
handles emotional, intuitive,
and spatial functions,
processing information
intuitively. The right side of
the brain is the source of
creativity and innovation.
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Objective 4
Explain the10 “mental locks” that limit individual creativity
The number of potential barriers to creativity is
limitless, but entrepreneurs commonly face 10
“mental locks” on creativity:
1. Searching for the one “right” answer
2. Focusing on “being logical”
3. Blindly following the rules
4. Constantly being practical
5. Viewing play as frivolous
6. Becoming overly specialized
7. Avoiding ambiguity
8. Fearing looking foolish
9. Fearing mistakes and failure, and
10. Believing that “I’m not creative.”
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Objective 5
Understand howentrepreneurs can enhance the creativity
of their employees as well as their own creativity
Enhancing Organizational Creativity
 Expecting creativity
 Expecting and tolerating failure
 Encouraging curiosity
 Viewing problems as challenges
 Providing creativity training
 Providing support
 Rewarding creativity, and
 Modelling creativity.
Enhancing Individual Creativity
 Allowing themselves to be creative
 Giving their minds fresh input every
day
 Keeping a journal handy to record
their thoughts and ideas
 Reading books on stimulating
creativity or taking a class on
creativity, and
 Taking some time off to relax.
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Objective 6
Describe thesteps in the creative process.
The creative process consists of seven steps:
1. Preparation
2. Investigation
3. Transformation
4. Incubation
5. Illumination
6. Verification
7. Implementation
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Objective 7
Discuss techniquesfor improving
the creative process
Five techniques are especially useful for
improving the creative process:
1. Brainstorming
2. Mind mapping
3. Force-field analysis
4. TRIZ
5. Rapid prototyping
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Objective 8
Describe theprotection of intellectual
property through patents, trademarks,
and copyrights
 Patent
 Trademark
 Copyright
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Objective 1
Understand theimportance of strategic
management to a small business.
Building a Strategic Plan
Companies without clear strategies may
achieve some success in the short run,
but as soon as a competitive threat
arises, they often fail.
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Intellectual capital
One sourceof a company’s competitive
advantage that consists of human,
structural, or customer capital.
 Human Capital
 Structural Capital
 Customer Capital
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Objective 2
Explain whyand how a small business must
create a competitive advantage in the market
Competitive advantage
The value proposition that sets a small business apart from its
competitors and gives it a unique position in the market that
is superior to its competition.
Five aspects of a small company
1. Product they sell
2. Service they provide
3. Pricing they offer
4. Way they sell
5. Values to which they are committed
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Core Competencies
A uniqueset of capabilities that a company
develops in key areas, such as superior quality,
customer service, innovation, team building,
flexibility, and responsiveness, that allow it to vault
past competitors
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Objective 3
Develop astrategic plan for
a business using the nine
steps in the strategic
management process.
Step 1. Develop a
clear vision and
translate it into a
meaningful mission
statement
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Step 2. Assessthe Company’s Strength and Weaknesses
Strength
 Loyal Customer
 Positive public image
 Superior product
 Product quality
 Special skill and knowledge
 Experienced Sales force
Weakness
 Lack of capital
 Lack of technology
 Lack of skilled worker
 Inferior location
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Step 3: Scanthe environment for significant
opportunities and threats facing the business
Opportunities
 New Technology adaption
 New Product
 New Market
 New Processes
Threats
 New Competitor
 Rising Interest Rate
 Recession
 Govt. law on taxation
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Step 4: Identifythe key factors
for success in the business
Key Success Factors
The factors that determine a
company’s ability to compete
successfully in an industry.
 Experience in the industry
 Sufficient start-up capital
 Consistency in quality and service
over time
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Step 6: CreateCompany Goals and Objectives
Goals
The broad, long-range attributes that a
business seeks to accomplish are its goals.
Objectives
They are more specific targets of
performance
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Step 7: FormulateStrategic Options and Select the
Appropriate Strategies
Strategy
 Cost Leadership
 Differentiation
 Focus
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Step 8: TranslateStrategic Plans into Action Plans
No strategic plan is complete until it is put
into action; planning a company’s strategy
and implementing it go hand in hand.
 Purpose
 Scope
 Contribution
 Resource Requirements
 timing
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Step 9: EstablishAccurate Controls
Actual performance rarely, if ever,
matches plans exactly. To judge the
effectiveness of their strategies,
many companies are developing
balanced scorecards.
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Objective 1
Explain theelements of a feasibility analysis
A feasibility analysis is the process of determining
whether an entrepreneur’s idea is a viable foundation for
creating a successful business.
 Not the same as a business plan.
 Serves as a filter, screening out ideas that lack the
potential for building a successful business before an
entrepreneur commits the necessary resources to
building a business plan.
 An investigative tool.
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A feasibility analysisconsists of four interrelated
components:
 An industry and market feasibility analysis
 A product or service feasibility analysis
 A financial feasibility analysis
 An entrepreneur feasibility analysis
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Industry and MarketFeasibility Analysis
Two areas of focus:
1. Determining how attractive an industry is
overall as a “home” for a new business.
2. Identifying possible niches a small
business can occupy profitably.
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Five Forces Model
Fiveforces interact with one another to determine
the setting in which companies compete and,
hence, the attractiveness of the industry:
 Rivalry among companies in the industry
 Bargaining power of suppliers
 Bargaining power of buyers
 Threat of new entrants
 Threat of substitute products or services
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Product or ServiceFeasibility Analysis
Determines the degree to which a product or
service idea appeals to potential customers and
identifies the resources necessary to produce it.
This portion of the feasibility analysis
addresses two questions:
1. Are customers willing to purchase our good
or service?
2. Can we provide the product or service to
customers at a profit?
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Primary research involvescollecting data firsthand
and analysing it.
Secondary research involves gathering data that
has already been compiled and is available.
In both types of research, gathering both quantitative
and qualitative information is important to drawing
accurate conclusions about a product’s or service’s
market potential
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Financial Feasibility Analysis
Capital requirements – must have an estimate
of how much start-up capital is required to
launch the business.
 Estimated earnings – forecasted income
statements.
 Return on investment – combining the
previous two estimates to determine how
much investors can expect their investments
to return
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Entrepreneur Feasibility Analysis
Many new businesses require that an entrepreneur
possess a certain set of knowledge, experiences,
and skills to have a chance of being successful.
 Entrepreneurial readiness also involves issues such
as temperament and work ethic.
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Objective 2
Explain thebenefits of an effective business plan
Business Plan
 It describes which direction the company is taking, what
its goals are, where it wants to be, and how it intends to
get there.
 There is no substitute for a well-prepared business plan,
and there are no shortcuts to creating one.
 The plan serves as an entrepreneur’s road map on the
journey toward building a successful business
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A business plan,which builds off of information
from the feasibility analysis and business model,
serves two essential functions.
Firstly, it guides the company’s operations by
charting its future course and devising a strategy
for following it.
The second function of the business plan is to
attract lenders and investors.
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An effective businessplan
should pass these three tests:
 Reality test
 Competitive test
 Value test
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Objective 3
Describe theelements of a solid business plan
Although a business plan should be unique and
tailor-made to suit the particular needs of a small
company, it should cover these basic elements:
 Title Page and Table of Contents
 Executive Summary
 Mission Statement
 Company History
 Business and Industry Profile
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 Business Strategy
Description of Products/Services
 Marketing Strategy
 Competitor Analysis
 Description of Management Team
 Plan of Operation
 Forecasted Financial Statement
 Loan or Investment Proposal
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Objective 1
Describe theprinciples of building a
bootstrap marketing plan, and explain the
benefits of preparing one.
Building a Guerrilla Marketing Plan
Marketing is the process of creating and delivering desired
goods and services to customers and involves all of the activities
associated with winning and retaining loyal customers.
Guerrilla marketing strategies is unconventional, low cost,
creative marketing strategies designed to give small companies
an edge over their larger, richer, more powerful rivals.
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A bootstrap marketingplan should
accomplish three objectives:
1. It should pinpoint the specific target markets the
small company will serve.
2. It should determine customer needs and wants
through market research.
3. It should analyse the firm’s competitive
advantages and build a bootstrap marketing
strategy around them to communicate its value
proposition to the target market.
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Objective 2
Explain howsmall businesses can
pinpoint their target markets.
One of the first steps in building a bootstrap
marketing plan is to identify a small company’s
target market.
Target market is the specific group of customers
at whom the company aims its goods or services.
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Sound market researchhelps the
owner pinpoint his or her target
market. The most successful
businesses have well-defined
portraits of the customers they are
seeking to attract.
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Objective 3
Discuss therole of market research in
building a bootstrap marketing plan and
outline the market research process.
Determining Customer Needs and Wants
through Market Research
Market research is the vehicle for gathering the
information that serves as the foundation of the
marketing plan. Good research does not have to
be complex and expensive to be useful.
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The steps inconducting market research include
the following:
Step -1: Define the objectives: “What do you
want to know?”
Step-2: Collect the Data from either primary or
secondary sources.
Step-3: Analyse and interpret the data
Step-4: Draw conclusions and act
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Objective 4
Describe howa small business can build a
competitive edge in the marketplace using
bootstrap marketing strategies
When plotting a marketing strategy, owners must strive
to achieve a competitive advantage—some way to
make their companies different from and better than
the competition
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Successful small businessesrely on 14 sources to
develop a competitive edge:
1. Find a niche and fill it.
2. Use the power of publicity.
3. Don’t just sell—entertain.
4. Strive to be unique
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5. Build acommunity with customers.
6. Connect with the customer on an emotional level.
7. Create an identity for your business through branding
8. Embrace social marketing.
9. Be dedicated to service and customer satisfaction
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10. Retain existingcustomers.
11. Be devoted to quality.
12. Pay attention to convenience.
13. Concentrate on innovation.
14. Emphasize speed.
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Does e-commerce differsfrom e-business?
E-commerce
E-commerce involves digitally enabled
commercial transactions (the exchange of
value or money, which is only possible
through buying and selling) between and
among organizations and individuals.
E-business
For the most part, e-business does
not involve commercial transactions
across organizational boundaries
where value is exchanged.
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Objective 1
Understand thefactors an entrepreneur should
consider before launching into e-commerce.
 Before launching an e-commerce
effort, entrepreneurs should consider
the some important strategic issues.
 Some factors are essential to
achieving e-commerce success.
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Objective 2
Explain the10 myths of e-commerce and
how to avoid falling victim to them.
The main purpose of being
aware of these myths is to make
sure that you do not fall victim
to one of these e-commerce
myths.
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Objective 3
Explain thebasic strategies entrepreneurs should follow
to achieve success in their e-commerce efforts.
 Attract visitors by giving away “freebies.”
 Make creative use of e-mail but avoid
becoming a “spammer.”
 Make sure that your Web site says
“credibility.”
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Objective 4
Learn thetechniques of designing a killer Web site.
 Understand your target customer.
 Give customers what they want.
 Make your Web site easy to navigate
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Objective 5
Explain howcompanies track
the results from their Web sites.
Web analytics - Tools that measure a
Web site’s ability to attract customers,
generate sales, and keep customers coming
back, help entrepreneurs to know what
works—and what doesn’t—on their sites.
 Adobe Analytics
 Google Analytics
 Open Web Analytics
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Objective 6
Describe howe-businesses ensure the privacy and security
of the information they collect and store from the Web.
Ensuring Web Privacy
 Take an inventory of the
customer data collected.
 Develop a company privacy
policy for the information
collected.
 Post the company’s privacy
policy prominently on the Web
site and follow it.
Ensuring Web Security
 Virus detection software
 Intrusion detection
software
 Firewalls
 Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) technology