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LC Unit 2
Enterprise Key Terms and Examples
Question | Answer |
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An entrepreneur is | A person who spots an opportunity and takes the initiative to set up a business to make money from that opportunity |
Two characteristics of an entrepreneur | Risk taker and Self-motivated |
Four skills needed by enterprising people | Human relations, time management, Planning and decision making |
An intrapreneur is | an employee working within a business who shows enterprise |
Gmail was created by | an intrapreneur in Google |
What type of risk does an entrepreneur take when setting up a business? | Financial and Personal |
Two examples of famous entrepreneurs | Steve Jobs and Richard Branson |
What is meant by the term "entrepreneurship" | It involves using your initiative to identify some need and then taking the steps to satisfy that need |
Enterprising business people are rewarded by | profit |
Enterprise is important in the Community because | it creates jobs and business for local people |
Intrapreneurs | do not take such a high degree of risk |
Enterprise in the Home | Parents converting an attic used for storage into a study for their daughter so that she will have a place to study for her Leaving Cert |
Enterprise in School | A teacher organising an after-school drama club and putting on an end-of-year play |
Enterprise in the Community | Neighbours getting together and organising a committee to clean up their area and entering it for the Tidy Towns competition |
Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking that involves | new ideas |
Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking that involves | Observing opportunities and needs |
Which entrepreneur was the founder of Microsoft? | Bill Gates |
What is an invention or creation that is brand new? | Innovation |