Nine Types of Entrepreneurs

August 22, 2006 by Rich Whittle | 7 Comments

GlobeandMail.com:
Successful entrepreneurs are supposed to be outgoing, risk-taking workaholics.
But Rhonda Abrams says there are actually nine different types of entrepreneurs, each with their
own style and interests, allowing more of us the chance to enjoy the joy of entrepreneuring:
1. Adviser: Some entrepreneurs are paid for giving advice, such as lawyers, accountants, and
financial advisers.
2. Administrator/Organizer: Like organizing? You can plan weddings, oversee projects, or
take care of accounts, databases, and order fulfilment.
3. Builders/Creators: Artists, bakers, carpenters, and designers are examples of entrepreneurs
driven to create something tangible where it did not exist before.
4. Caretaker: People with a helping personality find opportunities taking care of people, plants
or property.
5. Communicator/Trainer: If you can transmit information or communicate in different
languages you might find demand in sales, marketing, writing, training or a variety of
information services.
6. Entertainer/Host: If you thrive on being with people, you may find an entrepreneurial
opening in the hospitality industry or service industries such as hairdressing. Or you may be an
entertainer, actor, musician, or singer.
7. Investor/Owner: If you have money to invest you can put your capital to work for you
investing in stocks, real estate or businesses.
8. Seller: This covers salespeople and brokers in our purchases, from real estate to insurance to
art.
9. Technologist/Engineer: If you love figuring out computers, autos and engines, you may want
to explore entrepreneurial opportunities in software development, engineering or technology.
Which entrepreneur are you?

Read more: http://www.business-opportunities.biz/2006/08/22/nine-types-of-

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Entrepreneurship
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For the person who starts a new organization, see Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which is a French word meaning "one
who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations
into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing
mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity. The most obvious form of
entrepreneurship is that of starting new businesses (referred as Startup Company); however, in
recent years, the term has been extended to include social and political forms of entrepreneurial
activity. When entrepreneurship is describing activities within a firm or large organization it is
referred to as intra-preneurship and may include corporate venturing, yep yep yep when large
entities spin-off organizations.[1]
According to Paul Reynolds, entrepreneurship scholar and creator of the Global
Entrepreneurship Monitor, "by the time they reach their retirement years, half of all working men
in the United States probably have a period of self-employment of one or more years; one in four
may have engaged in self-employment for six or more years. Participating in a new business
creation is a common activity among U.S. workers over their course of their careers." [2] And in
recent years has been documented by scholars such as David Audretsch to be a major driver of
economic growth in both the United States and Western Europe.
Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is
being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the
entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many "high
value" entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding (seed money) in order to
raise capital to build the business. Angel investors generally seek annualized returns of 20-30%
and more, as well as extensive involvement in the business.[3] Many kinds of organizations now
exist to support would-be entrepreneurs, including specialized government agencies, business
incubators, science parks, and some NGOs. In more recent times, the term entrepreneurship has
been extended to include elements not related necessarily to business formation activity such as
conceptualizations of entrepreneurship as a specific mindset (see also entrepreneurial mindset)
resulting in entrepreneurial initiatives e.g. in the form of social entrepreneurship, political
entrepreneurship, or knowledge entrepreneurship have emerged.

Contents
[hide]
• 1 History
• 2 Promotion of
entrepreneurship
• 3 Financial bootstrapping
• 4 Traditional Financing
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 Further reading
• 8 External links

[edit] History
The entrepreneur is an actor in microeconomics, and the study of entrepreneurship reaches back
to the work of Richard Cantillon and Adam Smith in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, but
was largely ignored theoretically until the late 19th and early 20th centuries and empirically until
a profound resurgence in business and economics in the last 40 years.
In the 20th century, the understanding of entrepreneurship owes much to the work of economist
Joseph Schumpeter in the 1930s and other Austrian economists such as Carl Menger, Ludwig
von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek. In Schumpeter, an entrepreneur is a person who is willing
and able to convert a new idea or invention into a successful innovation.[4] Entrepreneurship
employs what Schumpeter called "the gale of creative destruction" to replace in whole or in part
inferior innovations across markets and industries, simultaneously creating new products
including new business models. In this way, creative destruction is largely responsible for the
dynamism of industries and long-run economic growth. The supposition that entrepreneurship
leads to economic growth is an interpretation of the residual in endogenous growth theory and as
such is hotly debated in academic economics. An alternate, description posited by Israel Kirzner
suggests that the majority of innovations may be much more incremental improvements such as
the replacement of paper with plastic in the construction of a drinking straw.
For Schumpeter, entrepreneurship resulted in new industries but also in new combinations of
currently existing inputs. Schumpeter's initial example of this was the combination of a steam
engine and then current wagon making technologies to produce the horseless carriage. In this
case the innovation, the car, was transformational but did not require the development of a new
technology, merely the application of existing technologies in a novel manner. It did not
immediately replace the horsedrawn carriage, but in time, incremental improvements which
reduced the cost and improved the technology led to the complete practical replacement of beast
drawn vehicles in modern transportation. Despite Schumpeter's early 20th-century contributions,
traditional microeconomic theory did not formally consider the entrepreneur in its theoretical
frameworks (instead assuming that resources would find each other through a price system). In
this treatment the entrepreneur was an implied but unspecified actor, but it is consistent with the
concept of the entrepreneur being the agent of x-efficiency.
Different scholars have described entrepreneurs as, among other things, bearing risk. For
Schumpeter, the entrepreneur did not bear risk: the capitalist did.

Some notable persons and their works in entrepreneurship history.

For Frank H. Knight [5] (1921) and Peter Drucker (1970) entrepreneurship is about taking risk.
The behavior of the entrepreneur reflects a kind of person willing to put his or her career and
financial security on the line and take risks in the name of an idea, spending much time as well as
capital on an uncertain venture. Knight classified three types of uncertainty.
• Risk, which is measurable statistically (such as the probability of drawing a
red color ball from a jar containing 5 red balls and 5 white balls).
 • Ambiguity, which is hard to measure statistically (such as the probability of
drawing a red ball from a jar containing 5 red balls but with an unknown
number of white balls).
• True Uncertainty or Knightian Uncertainty, which is impossible to estimate or
predict statistically (such as the probability of drawing a red ball from a jar
whose number of red balls is unknown as well as the number of other colored
balls).
The acts of entrepreneurship are often associated with true uncertainty, particularly when it
involves bringing something really novel to the world, whose market never exists. However,
even if a market already exists, there is no guarantee that a market exists for a particular new
player in the cola category.
The place of the disharmony-creating and idiosyncratic entrepreneur in traditional economic
theory (which describes many efficiency-based ratios assuming uniform outputs) presents
theoretic quandaries. William Baumol has added greatly to this area of economic theory and was
recently honored for it at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Economic Association.[6]
The entrepreneur is widely regarded as an integral player in the business culture of American
life, and particularly as an engine for job creation and economic growth. Robert Sobel published
The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition in 1974. Zoltan Acs
and David Audretsch have produced an edited volume surveying Entrepreneurship as an
academic field of research, [7] and more than a hundred scholars around the world track
entrepreneurial activity, policy and social influences as part of the Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor (GEM)[8] and its associated reports.
Entrepreneurs have many of the same character traits as leaders, similar to[clarification needed]
[edit] Promotion of entrepreneurship
Given entrepreneurship's potential to support economic growth, it is the policy goal of many
governments to develop a culture of entrepreneurial thinking. This can be done in a number of
ways: by integrating entrepreneurship into education systems, legislating to encourage risk-
taking, and national campaigns. An example of the latter is the United Kingdom's Enterprise
Week, which launched in 2004.
Outside of the political world, research has been conducted on the presence of entrepreneurial
theories in doctoral economics programs. Dan Johansson, fellow at the Ratio Institute in Sweden,
finds such content to be sparse. He fears this will dilute doctoral programs and fail to train young
economists to analyze problems in a relevant way.[9]
Many of these initiatives have been brought together under the umbrella of Global
Entrepreneurship Week, a worldwide celebration and promotion of youth entrepreneurship,
which started in 2008.
[edit] Financial bootstrapping
Financial bootstrapping is a term used to cover different methods for avoiding using the financial
resources of external investors. Bootstrapping can be defined as “a collection of methods used to
minimize the amount of outside debt and equity financing needed from banks and investors”[10].
The use of private credit card debt is the most known form of bootstrapping, but a wide variety
of methods are available for entrepreneurs. While bootstrapping involves a risk for the founders,
the absence of any other stakeholder gives the founders more freedom to develop the company.
Many successful companies including Dell Computers were founded this way.
There are different types of bootstrapping:
• Owner financing
• Sweat equity
• Minimization of the accounts receivable
• Joint utilization
• Delaying payment
• Minimizing inventory
• Subsidy finance
• Personal Debt

[edit] Traditional Financing

Having outside investors is not necessarily beyond the realm of entrepreneurship. In many cases,
leveraging the owners' credit cards and personal assets, such as mortgages, may not be sufficient.
Inadequate investment can also kill a start up. And bringing in outsiders can be beneficial.
Outsiders can provide financial oversight, accountability for carrying out tasks and meeting
milestones, and many can even bring valuable business contacts and experience to the table.
• Angel Investors
• Venture capital investors
• Crowd Funding
• Hedge Funds
• Alternative Asset Management

[edit] See also

Book:Entrepreneurship

Books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or

ordered in print.

• Business opportunity
• Business plan
• Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship education
• Junior enterprise

[edit] References
1. ^ Shane, Scott "A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: the Individual-
Opportunity Nexus", Edward Elgar, 2003, ISBN 1-84376-996-4
 2. ^ Reynolds, Paul D. "Entrepreneurship in the United States", Springer, 2007,
ISBN 978-0-387-45667-6
3. ^ Angel Investing, Mark Van Osnabrugge and Robert J. Robinson
4. ^ Schumpeter, Joseph A. "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy", 1942
5. ^ Knight, Francis A. "Risk, Uncertainty and Profit"
6. ^ "Searching for the invisible man". The Economist (The Economist
Newspaper Limited): pp. 67. 2006-03-11.
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_VGDTRJD.
Retrieved 2008-03-05.
7. ^ Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and
Introduction
8. ^ www.gemconsortium.org
9. ^ Johansson, Dan. "Economics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A
Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks" (December 2004). [1]
10.^ Ebbena, Jay; Johnson, Alec, "Bootstrapping in small firms: An empirical
analysis of change over time", Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 21,
Issue 6, November 2006, Pages 851-865

[edit] Further reading

• Duening, Thomas N., Hisrich, Robert D., Lechter, Michael A., Technology
Entrepreneurship, Academic Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-12-374502-6
• Livingston, Jessica, Founders at work: stories of startups' early days,
Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by
Springer-Verlag New York, 2007. ISBN 978-1-59059-714-9

[edit] External links

• Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (AES)
• The Enterprise Trust
• Starting a Business
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Entrepreneurship.gov
• Enterprise UK
• Economy and Entrepreneurship
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Few ppts on entrepreneurship:-

1 ) http://www.esnips.com/doc/14cb4aca-bc95-4410-99d3-
cf9e8010f52a/entrepreneurship

2) http://www.esnips.com/doc/80c21d26-3840-4305-9fca-
15fbbf4e243f/Entrepreneurship-MIB

3) http://www.esnips.com/doc/e7104aa6-83bb-499a-b8b3-
37f48e9f48a4/Entrepreneurship-1
4) http://www.esnips.com/doc/ed0a4694-adb2-4754-8ae4-
4d1a7158e8c3/Entrepreneurship

5) http://www.esnips.com/doc/9ef8102e-8da0-416d-8fbc-a8b848a4c451/The-
making-of-an-entrepreneur
 6) http://www.esnips.com/doc/f7624a1c-ddc6-41dc-b5f9-
55d11081cf74/Entrepreneurship_ramky

Definition of an Entrepreneur
Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur
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Contribution of Entrepreneurs to a country
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Dhiru Bhai Ambani
Lakshmi Mittal
Naina Lal Lidwai
N.R. Narayna Murthy- Infosys Technologies
Future of Entrepreneurship

http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/business-management/entrepreneurship.php

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