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The Entrepreneur and Opportunity
1. The Entrepreneur and Opportunity
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2. Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes the
creation of an enterprise or business that has the
chance of profit (or success).
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3. “I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident…and
almost none of my inventions came about totally by
accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to
endure and tolerate hard work.” – Thomas Edison
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4. An Entrepreneur Test: Are you an entrepreneur?
Answer each question by checking Yes or No:
1. When I am faced with a challenge, I am confident that I can work through it ___ ___
2. I want to be financially independent and be rewarded for my accomplishments ___ ___
3. Trying something new is attractive, even if the risk of failure is significant ___ ___
4. I'd prefer to gain independence and control my destiny ___ ___
5. Building a new enterprise is important to me ___ ___
6. My experiences during my youth and early career have shown me the benefits of starting a new
enterprise ___ ___
7. Starting a new business some day soon is always in my thoughts ___ ___
8. I like working with others and can provide leadership when called upon ___ ___
9. Our society and my family provide a strong, supportive base for my initiatives ___ ___
10. I possess good technical skills and strong relationship skills in the industry I wish to enter. ___ ___
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5. Characteristics of an Entrepreneur:
• Ability to deal with a series of tough issues
• Can handle many tasks simultaneously
• Resiliency in the face of set-backs
• Possess well-developed problem solving skills
• Willingness to work hard and not expect easy solutions
• Ability to create solutions and work to perfect them
• Ability to learn and acquire the necessary skills for the tasks at
hand
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6. The Entrepreneur & Opportunity
The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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7. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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The Opportunity Process – Indentify:
• Increasing the value of product/service (i.g., new, high
quality tool)
• New applications of existing means or technologies
(i.g., use of magnetic cards for door access)
• Customization for individuals (i.g., customized
computers)
• Process innovation (i.g., airborne shipping)
The Entrepreneur & Opportunity
9. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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10. Characteristics of an Entrepreneur applied to this
opportunity:
• Do you have the ability (gifts, talents, education, experience)to deal
with a series of tough issues specific to this opportunity?
• Can you handle many tasks specific to this opportunity?
• Will you have resiliency specific to this opportunity?
• Do you possess well-developed problem solving skills specific to this
opportunity?
• Do you have the ability to create solutions and work to perfect
them specific to this opportunity?
• Do you have the ability to learn and acquire the necessary skills for
this opportunity
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11. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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12. The Opportunity Process – Evaluate:
1. Capabilities
Do my team members possess the capabilities?
2. Novelty
Are there novel qualities?
3. Significant customer value
Is the amount of benefit a customer will get greater than the cost?
4. Resources
Can the team attract required resources?
5. Return
Can it be profitable and is return sufficient for risk?
6. Commitment
Is there team commitment?
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13. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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14. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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Business
Model
Canvas
16. Business Plan
Executive Summary
Company Description
Products and Services
Marketing Plan
Operational Plan
Management and Organization
Personal Financial Statement
Startup Expenses/Capitalization
Financial Plan
Appendices
Business Model
Customer Segments
Value Proposition
Channels
Customer Relationship
Revenue Streams
Key Resources
Key Partners
Key Activities
Cost Structure
or
?
17. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities and interests
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and
investors
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20. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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Problems Lead To Opportunity:
Process is too slow Waiters too busy Too much
paperwork
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The Opportunity Process – Identify:
• Increasing the value of product/service (i.g., new, high quality
tool)
• New applications of existing means or technologies (i.g., use of
magnetic cards for door access)
• Customization for individuals
• Process innovation (i.g., airborne shipping)
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Order when ready
Pay when ready, securely
Powerful bookkeeping
Problems Lead To Opportunity:
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Satisfy impulse orders
Act on guest feedback
Customers to craft experience
7 minutes faster table turn
One bill, or split bill
Up-sell 100% = 10% sales boost
Problems Lead To MORE Opportunity:
Use social media
$0 upfront cost
25. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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26. The Opportunity Process – Evaluate:
1. Capabilities
Do my team members possess knowledge and capabilities?
2. Novelty
Are there significant, novel, or differentiating or proprietary qualities?
3. Significant customer value
Is the amount of benefit a customer will get greater than the cost?
4. Resources
Can the team attract required financial, human, and physical resources?
5. Return
Can it be profitable and is return sufficient for risk?
6. Commitment
Is there team commitment and passion?
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27. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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28. The Entrepreneur & Opportunity
The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining the Entrepreneur’s capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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The Entrepreneur & Opportunity
Business
Model
Canvas
30. The Entrepreneur & Opportunity
The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and
investors
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36. The Opportunity Process – Evaluate:
1. Capabilities
Do my team members possess the capabilities?
2. Novelty
Are there novel qualities?
3. Significant customer value
Is the amount of benefit a customer will get greater than the cost?
4. Resources
Can the team attract required resources?
5. Return
Can it be profitable and is return sufficient for risk?
6. Commitment
Is there team commitment?
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37. The Opportunity Process:
1. Identifying the Opportunity
2. Determining your capabilities
3. Evaluating the opportunity
4. Deciding to act on the opportunity or look elsewhere
5. Writing a summary of the concept
6. Testing the summary and the concept with potential customers and investors
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Notas del editor
Webster’s – someone who runs a business at his or her own financial risk
Create!
Make something new – a business, a new idea
Webster’s – someone who runs a business at his or her own financial risk
Add your total score for Yes and No: ___ ___
Seven or more Yes answers indicate that you may be ready to act as an entrepreneur
Everyone has unique God given gifts and abilities that will allow them to enter and succede in certain areas and fields.
God has given people with above characteristics the ability to be entrepreneurs.
Here is the overview of the list
Creating mass markets (i.g., disposable cameras)
Increasing reach (i.g., use of internet for services)
Managing the supply chain (i.g., large stores)
Increasing the scale of the firm (i.g., rental firms, waste disposal)
Convergence of industries (i.g., banking and brokerage)
Abiltiy to “see” opportunitiesYou see a better way to …
Many times you will see opportunities in the industry, business you are in
New ways build or construct with new materials
Do things more efficientlyMake things smaller
Gina Buser – customization for individuals in the legal area
Do you know the field or industry – have experience or knowledge?
Do you know the technical aspects of the idea/opportunity
Are you passionate about it?
Do you care?
AM I READY TO TAKE THIS ON?
Everyone has unique God given gifts and abilities that will allow them to enter and succede in certain areas and fields.
God has given people with above characteristics the ability to be entrepreneurs.
1. Capabilities
Do my team members possess knowledge and capabilities?
2. Novelty
Are there significant, novel, or differentiating or proprietary qualities?
3. Significant customer value
Is the amount of benefit a customer will get greater than the cost?
4. Resources
Can the team attract required financial, human, and physical resources?
5. Return
Can it be profitable and is return sufficient for risk?
6. Commitment
Is there team commitment and passion?
CAPABILITIES - of team
NOVELTY – properties
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER VALUE – benefit > cost
RESOURCES - attract the money, people and other resources?
RETURN – profitable
COMMITMENT – team passion
Business Model Canvas
Business Model Canvas over Business plan
1. No business plan survives the first customer contact.
2. It’s the business model, period.
3. Take time to think through alternative possibilities
4. Your business model idea is just a set of hypotheses.
5. Don’t build your company, until you’ve verified your business model
Develop the business model canvass and take it to customers and investors and get response - PIVOT
This is not the business plan
Verifying every hypothesis
you need to adapt the business model until you can prove it works
Process for placing orders and figuring customers bills is too slow
Waiters can not always attend to the customers in a timely manner
There is too much paperwork for all the different phases of the restaurant business
These are some problems they were facing
Many times ideas and opportunity are birthed out of problems we have in doing things or finding solutions.
Sometime people will create something to meet their “in house” needs and find out it has an appeal to others.
They can market for $
Powerful bookkeeping tools to track operations, metrics, menu trends, and profitability
Answered or created solutions to what we needed.
It was easy to add other features that could help in many other ways.
Order meals, pay for meals, play games, empower customers to craft their dining experience
Satisfy impulse orders when craving something extra, your diners can order before changing their minds
CAPABILITIES - of team
NOVELTY – properties
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER VALUE – benefit > cost
RESOURCES - attract the money, people and other resources?
RETURN – profitable
COMMITMENT – team passion
Get on paper – Business Model Canvas
Business Model Canvas over Business plan
Test on potential customers and investors
Verifying every hypothesis
you need to adapt the business model until you can prove it works
7 minutes faster table turn by allowing customers to browse the menu, order, and pay themselves.
$0 Upfront Cost for restaurant owners. Plug and Play technology gives a streamlined installation process
Act on guest feedback before they leave. Know how your guests feel immediately from feedback given at their table
Use social media such as Facebook from the table - guests and share their experience and your hospitality with friends
1. Capabilities
Do my team members possess knowledge and capabilities?
2. Novelty
Are there significant, novel, or differentiating or proprietary qualities?
3. Significant customer value
Is the amount of benefit a customer will get greater than the cost?
4. Resources
Can the team attract required financial, human, and physical resources?
5. Return
Can it be profitable and is return sufficient for risk?
6. Commitment
Is there team commitment and passion?
CAPABILITIES - of team
NOVELTY – properties
SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMER VALUE – benefit > cost
RESOURCES - attract the money, people and other resources?
RETURN – profitable
COMMITMENT – team passion
Need to re-evaluate – product is very different than first imagined and may have mass appeal