What is Entrepreneurship	Related Career Titles
Related Major Skills	Job & Internship Search Links
Career Planning Links	Professional Association Links
Miscellaneous Resources Links	Cameron School of Business: http://www.csb.uncw.edu/

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)

 

Related Career Titles

Owner

Manager

Director

President

Chief Executive Officer

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Related Major Skills

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

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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

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Career Planning Links

Entrepreneurship and Business Development program at UNCW’s Cameron School of Business - www.csb.uncw.edu/mgt/courses/ebd/ebd.htm

 

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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

 

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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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UNCW/Jamie Moncrief