Entrepreneurship - Answers A way of thinking, acting, and being that combines the ability to create
new opportunities with the courage to act on them
7 Truths of Entrepreneurship - Answers 1: Entrepreneurship is not reserved for startups
2: Entrepreneurs do not have special personality traits
3: Entrepreneurship can be taught (it's a method that requires practice)
4: Entrepreneurs are not extreme risk takers
5: Entrepreneurs collaborate more than they compete
6: Entrepreneurs act more than they plan
7: Entrepreneurship is a life skill
Startup - Answers A temporary organization in search of a scalable business model
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs - Answers Desire for achievement, ability to influence events,
tendency to take risks, tolerance for uncertainty
Effectuation Theory - Answers The idea that the future in unpredictable yet controllable and
entrepreneurs can effect the future
Types of Entrepreneurship - Answers Corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship inside,
franchising, buying a small business social entrepreneurship, family enterprising, and serial
entrepreneurship
Corporate Entrepreneurship - Answers A process of creating new products, ventures, processes, or
renewal within large organizations
Entrepreneurship Inside - Answers Employees who think and act entrepreneurially within different
types of organizations
Franchise - Answers License purchased by an entrepreneur from an existing business to operate under
the businesses name
Buying a Small Business - Answers Entrepreneur purchases existing business
Social Entrepreneurship - Answers The process of sourcing innovative solutions to social and
environmental problems
Benefit Corporation (B Corp) - Answers Organization that ensures social and environmental standards
are met
Family Enterprise - Answers A business that is owned and managed by multiple family members
Serial Entrepreneurs (Habitual Entrepreneurs) - Answers Entrepreneurs who start several businesses,
either simultaneously or consecutively
Method - Answers A systematic way of approaching a task
Process - Answers A series of steps taken to achieve a particular end
Entrepreneurship as a Method - Answers A set of practices, phases of learning, iterative, creative,
action focus, investment for learning, collaborative
Entrepreneurship as a Process - Answers Known inputs and predicted outputs, steps to complete,
linear, predictive, planning focus, expected return, competitive
Managerial Thinking - Answers Big planning, wait until you get what you need, expected return,
linear, optimization, avoid failure at all costs, competitive, knowable, plan to act
Entrepreneurial Thinking - Answers Small actions, start with what you have, acceptable loss, iterative,
experimentation, embrace and leverage failure, collaborative, unknowable, act to learn
Eight Components of the Entrepreneurship Method - Answers 1: Identify your desired impact on the
world
2: Start with the means at hand
3: Describe the idea today
4: Calculate affordable loss
5: Take small action
6: Network and enroll others in your journey
7: Build on what you learn
8: Reflect and be honest with yourself
Deliberate Practice - Answers Carrying out carefully focused efforts to improve current performance
Components of Deliberate Practice - Answers High focus, identify and improve weaknesses, consistent
effort, continuous feedback, set goals, self-reflection
Mindset - Answers the established set of attitudes held by someone