Chapter 01
Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurial Mind-Set
True / False Questions
1. (p. 4) Ewing Kauffman took a risk when he started his company Marion Labs in 1950.
TRUE
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2. (p. 5) How Ewing Kauffman ran his business illustrates corporate entrepreneurship.
TRUE
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3. (p. 6) Entrepreneurial opportunities are those situations in which new goods, services, raw
materials and organizing methods can be sold at greater than their production cost.
TRUE
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4. (p. 6) Entrepreneurial action can be defined as those situations in which new goods, services,
raw materials and organizing methods can be sold at greater than their production cost.
FALSE
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5. (p. 6) The McMullen-Shepherd Model helps identify the common traits of successful
entrepreneurs.
FALSE
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6. (p. 6) The McMullen-Shepherd Model explains how knowledge and motivation influence two
stages of entrepreneurial action.
TRUE
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7. (p. 6) In the McMullen-Shepherd Model first person opportunity beliefs come before third
person opportunity beliefs.
FALSE
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8. (p. 6) In the McMullen-Shepherd Model the first stage is the evaluation stage.
FALSE
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9. (p. 7) Superficial similarities exist when the underlying mechanisms of the technology
resemble, or match, the underlying mechanisms of the market.
FALSE
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