Unit 9 - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management

Entrepreneurship and
Small Business
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different types of Entrepreneurial Ventures and their relation with typology of
Entrepreneurship.....................................................................................................................1
P2 Similarities and differences between entrepreneurial ventures.........................................4
P3 Impact of Micro and Small businesses on Economy........................................................6
P4 Importance of small businesses and start-ups in growth of social economy....................7
P5 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs....................................................................................8
P6 Aspects of entrepreneurial personality reflecting entrepreneurial mind set and motivation
..............................................................................................................................................11
P7 Personal life and background that foster or hinder entrepreneurship..............................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Small business and small entrepreneurship models include those individual entrepreneurs
who carry out businesses with limited capital and resources in their hands but aspire to become
global leaders with their skills and ideas. Many such successful entrepreneurs have not only
fulfilled their ambitions, but also by bringing their ideas and visions before the world helped
upbringing new thought process, determination, creativity and zeal in many people around the
globe, especially in youth who are full of energy (Bylund and McCaffrey, 2017).
Entrepreneurship is not only carrying a business and earning profits, but it reflects qualities of
innovations, leadership and bringing some sort of social change by means of innovative
contributions.
In this report it has been attempted to understand different dimensions and aspects of
entrepreneurship. Firstly, meaning and types of entrepreneurship followed by similarities and
differences between them. Secondly, importance of small businesses and innovative start-ups on
economy and society are made comprehensive. This is followed by understanding different
qualities of successful entrepreneurs and how successful entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial
qualities helps motivating other people in society as well. For this purpose, report have taken
example of a very young successful UK based entrepreneur Mark Pearson, who is co-founder of
a new age web based news and advertisement company Marcko media, started in 2006. Also, a
discussion on different environmental factors fostering and hindering growth of Entrepreneurship
is made. All these topics, through brief understanding provides holistic frame of need,
development, traits and factors of entrepreneurship.
MAIN BODY
P1 Different types of Entrepreneurial Ventures and their relation with typology of
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the complete process of developing launching and running a business
by potential entrepreneurs who have idea of business in their mind and who aspires to turn that
idea in reality. Entrepreneurs are not just businessmen but they have a certain will to bring
societal change through their innovation.
For fulfilling their goals and vision these potential entrepreneurs intends to make best use
of their skills and talent, carrying out such activities which reflects best output of them as a
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businessman as well as leader, these are called Entrepreneurial activities. Therefore, these
entrepreneurs then a give a name to their businesses, thorough which they develop products and
bring it before society, also these entrepreneurs and their products are known by that name. This
process of naming is called Enterprising and business entity than established is Enterprise.
Though there exist many types of Entrepreneurship, report shall be discussing most
common among them.
Small business Entrepreneurship
Small business entrepreneurship is the one where one or two individuals attempts of
starting a business which is based on a very general idea of business which mostly includes no
new innovations in it (Leonidou and et.al., 2018). These entrepreneurs have a tendency of
leading a common life, not aim over high profits. Employees that these businesses include are
entrepreneur himself or few of its local friends and family members. Small grocery shops,
departmental or retail shops, medical shops, local Saloons, local Boutiques etc. are few of the
examples in this type of business.
Large company entrepreneurship
This is that type of entrepreneurship when a business holds good amount of capital in
hands to invest in business and possess new innovations. These type of companies are part of C-
level executives group companies. With the help of their innovation skills these companies fulfil
market demands in such a way that proves beneficial for companies by means of high profits and
for consumers by means of fulfilment of their choices. Big tycoons like Microsoft, Google, Tesla
etc. falls in this type of entrepreneurship.
Scalable start-up entrepreneurship
In these type of entrepreneurship businessmen is motivated by new ideas and innovations
for meeting market demands by means of their business skills and innovation skills (Azoulay and
et.al., 2020). These entrepreneurs aim at bringing such products or services, that not only attracts
good profits for them but being some sort of new developments or revolution in society. Many
these start-ups start in parts of technological hub in advanced countries like Silicon Valley.
Examples of scalable Start-ups include Instagram, Uber etc.
Innovative entrepreneurship
These entrepreneurs are willing to bring new ideas and innovations in market and society
through their businesses, generally in field of technologies, by which people can continuously
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grow to make better life for themselves. Also, with these developments they inject a new order
that becomes impulsive in society that people have no options besides adapting these
developments (Kimmitt, Muñoz and Newbery, 2020). These includes Apple, YouTube etc. are
example of this entrepreneurship model.
Researcher entrepreneurship
Researcher entrepreneurs are those entrepreneurs who take their time to complete
research about their business plan, status of market, competition, marketing methods, demand
levels in market and future prospects of their businesses, before launching their business and
entering in market. These entrepreneurs do not wish to face any difficulty while running their
business operations.
Different models of entrepreneurship have been developed in business world.
Development of these models is attributed to fact of variety in requirements of consumers as well
as businessmen themselves across different parts of world (Gast, Gundolf and Cesinger, 2017).
Relation with entrepreneurial typology
Growth typology- Growth typology comprises of those attributes of small entrepreneurship
where innovators helps bringing such products in society and for customers which satisfies their
needs in quicker and modern way. By bringing such innovations, developers offer most modern
solutions to past problems of customers. Entrepreneurship models like Innovative
entrepreneurship, Scalable start-ups, Research entrepreneurship and Large scale entrepreneurship
are most helpful in this typology.
Lifestyle typology- Lifestyle typology means when businesses or entrepreneurs develop such
products which are according to new trends and changing preferences of consumers in society
and which brings a change in lifestyle of consumers and users. Research entrepreneurship and
innovative and large scale entrepreneurship again are efficient model in this context. Small scale
entrepreneurs are important in this context to bring products of modern time for direct use to
customers.
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P2 Similarities and differences between entrepreneurial ventures
Similarities Differences
Motive One common motive shared
by all type of entrepreneurship
businesses is profit. They all
seeks to achieve higher growth
and profitability for wellbeing
and survival of their business.
Some businesses may aspire to
seek larger growths and profits
like large scale companies and
Researcher entrepreneurship,
whereas, small business
enterprises look forward for
sustainable profits. Motive of
scalable start-ups are profit as
well as bringing social
changes.
Scale of operations Similarity is seen as each type
of entrepreneurship have their
consumer bases to which they
aspire to satisfy. No survival is
possible without market base
and business operations for
satisfying them.
Difference lies in size and
scale of business operations.
This is evident by looking at
Large scale companies and
Small scale business
enterprises. Similarly
Researcher enterprises have
large scale operations but
scalable start-ups not.
Level of Innovations Each type of entrepreneurship
have some sort of innovations
either in business skills or in
products or services.
Innovative enterprises and
scalable start-ups have high
level of innovations in
products and services. Large
scale companies have
reasonable levels. Whereas,
Small businesses reflects no
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new innovations in products.
Differences between Serial entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and owner-managers
Similarities Differences
Serial Entrepreneurs These are those individuals
who have experience of
running multiple businesses.
They would have started from
any single business but with
time they further progressed in
several one.
They have knowledge and
experience of multiple sort of
businesses. Also, these people
have their business skills tried
and tested, thus their
competency is higher.
Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs are individuals
running a business. They bear
most of the risks and rewards
of it. With innovations and
new ideas they try attaining
new heights in their business.
They are mostly new business
persons. These individuals
have new ideas in their minds
and attempts to bring them in
reality. Level of risks are
generally higher for them, as
they have no or minimal
experience in business.
Owner-manager These are individuals who
owns and runs a business,
started from their creativity
and innovations skills. And at
the same time they bear
responsibility of managing it,
like a manager.
These individuals bear dual
responsibility. By owning the
business they hold majority of
stakes. And by managing the
same these individuals aligns
business totally with their
vision and try to mitigate risks.
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P3 Impact of Micro and Small businesses on Economy
Micro enterprise is enterprise which operate in less number of employees and capital.
They mostly fulfil demands in regional markets. Whereas, small business has little big scale of
business operations and have significance in economic conditions of an area. Businesses, be it
micro or small, produce and offer products as per demands of consumers, this is important for
them as a business as well as it is important for economy of country. Small and micro enterprises
operate in small scale operation fulfilling regional or local demands, thus their number of units
can be multiple. More business units mean more employment opportunities. Other way, small
businesses therefore expands tax base in economy for the Government, by offering employment
opportunities and also through establishment of many business units. Through increased number
of employment opportunities income level in economy also increases that further triggers more
demand in economy, it also raises people's standard of living when they start consuming and
using more products. Additional dynamics over business competition in local and national
economy and markets are more advantages of small and micro businesses in a country's economy
(Impacts of small business on UK economy, 2021).
UK government is seen actively supporting establishment of Small and Micro enterprises
due to their multiple benefits like increasing employment, expanding tax base, triggering
innovations, improving competitive spirit in market and many more in the line. By supporting
micro and small enterprises, UK government is not only fulfilling economic goals of country but
also helping people in getting their personal goals.
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Source: Contribution of small businesses in UK economy, 2021
From graph, it is evident that small and micro business enterprises have very significant
contribution in UK's economy, which stands no less than 99.3%, established to fulfil demands of
people in country's regional and local markets. The diagram put forth that 47.8% of these
business units are helpful in generating employment, which are able to secure 36.8% of turnover
helpful in increasing business performances and bringing them good profits. Small businesses
are very needful at this time in UK to fulfil rising employment demands which are pushed more
at times of Brexit and COVID-19 pandemic.
P4 Importance of small businesses and start-ups in growth of social economy
Small businesses and start-ups besides levying good impact over economic prosperity in
a country, also make some contributions in social manner. They, directly or indirectly, seen in
bringing many changes and developments in society through creativity and new innovations as
well as business operations. For getting better insights about contribution of entrepreneurs, it is
important to understand what creativity and innovation means for an entrepreneur.
Creativity- Creativity for an Entrepreneur is the ability to develop new ideas and concepts. It is
the ability of looking at problems in different manners from other and try finding its ultimate and
long term solution. For example, when problem of inadequacy of public transport was gearing
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problem in peoples' life, and solution was being found out from increasing public vehicles itself.
Uber created idea of providing at door cab services to people.
Innovation- Innovation is an entrepreneur is ability to apply creative solutions to problems. The
idea of solution developed in creative mind to find solution of problem is made realistic through
creative and new manner of solutions, proving beneficial for all. Like, for providing at door
services of cab, Uber developed an online application. Through this customers can order cab
over one click and choose vehicle mode of their convenience. Also, those who wish to run their
vehicles can do so creating a simple account and provide details of vehicles over same
application. Hence solution for all was found out on a single platform.
Important contributions of Entrepreneurs are discussed in report:
Rise in standard of living- Small businesses provides lots of opportunities through employment
and income, especially in semi-urban region and rural region. Small businesses offer
employment to local populations and also uses services of these areas helpful in business
activities (Gielnik, Bledow and Stark, 2020). This way small businesses helps raising income
level and standard of living in two ways, one by providing direct employment and second by
making procurements from local markets. Also, these businesses help raising standard of living
of people in semi-urban areas by offering variety of products developed by them through their
innovations.
Brings new innovations in market- Entrepreneurs of Small businesses and start-ups are full of
new ideas in their minds and new innovations which they are willing to turn into reality so their
efforts could bring a new change in society and prevailing social order by providing people more
efficient and quicker ways of fulfilling their own needs (Zakieva and et.al., 2019). For example,
Uber identified requirements of people to avoid delays and discomfort caused to them by public
transport facilities, therefore this business came up with the idea of online cabs and taxi bookings
which brings customers taxi direct on their location. Customer make booking by following
simple process on online application. This not only saved time and money of people but also
reduced overcrowding in public transport.
P5 Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs
Success of any business enterprise depends on the way its business operations are carried
out and decisions made thereon. Person who has this responsibility is called Entrepreneur. These
entrepreneurs are people in possession of good skill-sets of innovation as well as business, ability
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to take risks and leadership qualities (Srinivasan and Venkatraman, 2018). Many successful
entrepreneurs thus have made strong examples in society by rising their business from nothing to
small to become big business tycoons, by efficiently using their skills and talents. This report has
attempted to discuss these traits and qualities that are possessed by successful entrepreneurs to
have good insights about them. For this purpose, instance of a young and successful entrepreneur
Mark Pearson is taken in report.
Mark Pearson is the founder of Marcko media, a fast growing global web based
marketing and advertisement company founded in 2006. Company is currently operating as UK's
biggest voucher and deal network. A discussion on what traits and qualities of Mark Pearson
have credited this success of Marcko media is made in report as follows.
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Illustration 2: OCEAN Theory of Personality

Vision- Successful entrepreneurs like Mark person have this quality in common that they always
keep one eye on the big picture of what they want their business to become one day in future.
Keeping eye over future plans do not allows these entrepreneurs to deviate from their goals and
objectives. Also it allows them to make all of their decisions in the alignment of these goals so
they can pave their way easily up to these goals by removing difficulties one by one and building
their success step by step.
Versatility- Versatility is the attitude of these businessmen to make adaptation to changes posed
by growing markets and other developments in business environments is such way that they can
make timely and efficient use of different opportunities and threats posed by such developments
can be timely avoided. These entrepreneurs do not make delays because delays can make threats
danger to the business when it will become too big to bear, ultimately affecting survival of
business itself (Douglas, Shepherd and Prentice, 2020). Likewise, it was done by Mark Pearson
that when entrepreneur saw benefits bought by digital revolution and entire world was choosing
to go digital in global sense, good forecast of future marketing needs of businesses was made by
Mark Pearson.
Risk tolerance- Every entrepreneur either possess this quality or have to inculcate this within
them, but this trait is pre-requisite for any business in the world. There is a famous saying in
business world “No risk no gain”, meaning if businessmen are not willing to take risk they
cannot gain anything. Reason is that risk make new gateways to open for business environment,
due to which new opportunities comes in way, which can either or not prove favourable for
business. But if entrepreneur decide to keep rigid attitude, do not take risk, one day its ideas will
become obsolete and business will lose competitive edge in market.
Decisiveness- This is another quality seen most common among all entrepreneurs that they are
decisive in attitude towards a situation or circumstance bought to them. These entrepreneurs do
not fear in taking decisions, do not worry about whether it will be more or less successful in
business terms. They analyse situations, take overview from any similar development in past,
make their own interpretations and take the decision. Sometimes, it is also seen that
entrepreneurs bother about repercussions after taking the decision, this is normally seen when
they have to make decisions in hustle. Mark Pearson have noted this quality helping him not just
in professional life but personal life also.
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Collaborations- Successful entrepreneurs are seen working with many other partners in business
hand in hand, and seeking growth in such way that not just benefit them but others as well. They
try seeking growth for all and faith for themselves. Through collaborations, Mark Pearson
claimed, that one gets many valuable advices from others and many lessons from their
experiences. This diverge views of an entrepreneur, its outlook and insights about business. In
this context Mark Pearson mentions that “The best advice I could give any young entrepreneur
trying to succeed is to seek advice from others. Get your business on social networking sites and
engage with other industries.”
Motivation- Entrepreneurs who have zeal to succeed and are hard-working, always stay
motivated and passionate about their dreams, goals and vision of business future. Due to this
they attract tremendous positive ideas in their mind which eventually gets reflected in their
natural attitude. With help of this, these entrepreneurs are able to motivate their employees as
well in such a way that this changes employee's outlook towards life, perception towards
different problems and help developing such attitude in them as well. Mark Pearson believes that
simple and good ideas with motivation can lead everybody good life and enables them to solve
any problem in life.
P6 Aspects of entrepreneurial personality reflecting entrepreneurial mind set and motivation
Under this part of the report it has been studied that how individual personality of
successful entrepreneurs like Mark Pearson helps other individuals also in motivation and
encouragement (Boldureanu and et.al., 2020). This is manner in which these entrepreneurs
become successful examples for others where their knowledge, experiences and insights helps
motivating others in pursuit of endeavours. For this purpose, OCEAN theory of personality
would be really helpful in achieving good understanding of this matter. OCEAN is an acronym
for five major personality traits of successful entrepreneurs, these are Openness,
Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. The report shall be
developing understanding by studying each one separately in relation with individual personality
of young and successful entrepreneur Mark Pearson.
Openness- This trait of entrepreneurs deals with their quality of imaginations, creative thinking,
insights, being adventurous and eager to learn new things in life which is existing in the world.
New knowledge and learnings of meaningful things is seen exciting successful people always.
Mark Pearson have also shown tremendous interests in new learning so it can be used in
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building their dreams, seek new opportunity offered thereon and help imparting this knowledge
to others also, making others acquainted with new knowledge and how it can better be used by
them, in order to motivate and encourage others and push up their well-being.
Conscientiousness- Successful entrepreneurs are always pioneer of this quality and encourages
others also in cultivating this in them. Mark Pearson advocated this trait and noted its importance
to live a healthy, peaceful and organized lifestyle. Standard features in this trait includes high
thoughtfulness, organizing and planning one's lifestyle, following a set schedule, paying
attention to details of every matter and prioritising their work order. As per Mark Pearson, by
this people can keep their mind calm, plan important works accordingly and finish them in time
and most importantly this quality helps in leading a balanced life.
Extroversion- This trait is reflective of the attitude of socialisation, talkativeness, assertiveness
and excitement. People possessing this quality enjoys being centre of attention in gatherings and
also they feel energised between people. This was noted by Mark Pearson where entrepreneur
encouraged people to meet people of different mind-set and seek advices from them, learning
from their good and bad experiences can help one avoid making similar mistakes and this also
enhance good outlook and improves righteousness in decisions.
Agreeableness- This trait has attributes of pro-social behaviours like trust, kindness, empathy,
altruism and similar attributes. This trait is seen very common among successful entrepreneurs
like Mark Pearson for gaining trust of others as well as showing trust in others. This helps in
being cooperative rather than being competitive which may eventually lead to becoming
manipulative. Cooperation, joining hands with others in getting things done rightly deriving
collective benefits to all is key to success and this is basic trait of entrepreneurship.
Neuroticism- Neuroticism is the trait that reflects emotional instability of and individual. Under
the OCEAN theory of personality traits, this is only trait where it is suggested to keep low
possession, otherwise in every other trait one should have high qualities. Emotional instability
leads to anxiety and overthinking, which is not good for becoming successful entrepreneur. Their
emotional instability can have negative implications over every other associated person to them
and over organisational functioning as whole also (Putra and Cho, 2019). Thus it is better
suggested by entrepreneurs like Mark Pearson, time to time for being more resilient emotionally.
In this manner, it is better emphasised how personalities of successful entrepreneurs
benefit them and motivate others also in developing successful attitude also. Qualities like
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Creativity, conscientiousness, socialisation, cooperation and emotional stability can lead anyone
to achieve success and become good human being too.
P7 Personal life and background that foster or hinder entrepreneurship
On any individual a strong imprints of personal experiences in life are seen in its
activities, mind sets and decisions. An entrepreneur though cultivates its entrepreneurship
qualities by learnings, diversifying its intellects, meeting new people and seeking good advices
from them and keeping oneself highly informed about every development going in socio-
economic and political environment. But, at the same time, an entrepreneur's experiences from
past education, incidents of life, experience from initial entrepreneurial businesses and family
background as well is seen shaping its decisions, values, attitude towards risk management and
other people, communication skills and socialisation practices in professional life as well. Thus it
becomes important to understand impacts of background and personal experiences on skills,
values and decisions of entrepreneur because they hold critical importance in life of
entrepreneurs as well as same is reflected before that section of society which these
entrepreneurs influence (Balan and Rege, 2017). For this purpose, report has taken three
important aspects of personal life of an entrepreneur, Family background, Education and
Entrepreneurial experiences in past, to develop an understanding of impacts of personal life
matters over professional life. Report have continued instance of Mark Pearson for this
understanding also as how refuge, accompanying his mother and sister at that time, role of his
mother and sister in shaping his ideas, dropping out school at early age and many more personal
experiences helped him becoming a successful entrepreneur at this time.
Family Background- Family background of an individual have impacts on shaping its moral
values, ideas, outlook towards different subjects and people. Environment bin family shapes the
mind of a parson at the earliest age of life and in this age scientists says about 95% of brain
development is done already. Thus what one learns or observe at this stage lasts forever in mind.
In context of entrepreneur, one who belongs to entrepreneurial family will find it easy to develop
those insights and qualities more quickly than one who make deliberated steps in cultivating
those qualities. However this is a reward for an Entrepreneur for belonging to businesses family
background. There are also some risks of not having this background or having but being unable
to cultivate quality of Entrepreneurship. There are examples where individuals had long age
traditions of family businesses but they failed at their chances, lacking compatibility in skills.
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This comes most of the times when an individual could not find anything else to pursue but
family business. Also, risks are higher for individuals with non-business background as they
have to learn everything from beginning and lacking experience they have higher chances of
failing. This was the case with Mark Pearson, who had no entrepreneurial family background but
rather spent most of his life in refuge with his mother and sister. Those experiences may have
bought difficulties in Mark's life but shaped his thoughts and ideas in such way where he became
more compassionate, cooperative, positive and one possessing very good communication skills.
Partly credit is given by Mark to his mother and sister for role they played in his life.
Education level- Education plays more or less similar role that is played by family background
in developing one's attitude and personality. Difference is that family background have more
emotional and intangible impact, whereas education brings a tangible and academic impact.
Good learnings in school, familiarising good books, gaining knowledge of all subjects and
including education standards in profile helps one in diversifying knowledge and becoming
intelligent. As a reward, for an entrepreneur it is important as firstly one gain knowledge of
different subjects, as in modern time businesses requires integration of all knowledge together.
Secondly it helps building an entrepreneur profile which offers good impression. However, there
is a risk that one who attains knowledge of different subjects may lack in innovation and
creativity, which is utmost important for entrepreneurship. Highly qualified people may make
efficient employees necessary but may not be entrepreneurs. Another risk is through high level
of education individuals are seen becoming over ambitious. Without observing actual talent in
them they think they can master everything in world. Therefore risk of failing becomes higher in
such cases also. Risks Mark Pearson had left school at age of 16 only. That clearly shows
education had not so much role in his life. But he sought job at young age after winning a
nationwide cooking competition.
Entrepreneurial experiences- An Entrepreneurs experiences from past business are the most
influential in shaping its ideas and decisions. Reward is if one has had a good and successful
experience in past businesses, then one is seen more flexible, adaptive, risk tolerant and quick
decision maker in followed businesses. Whereas, failure and downfall makes one reluctant,
hesitating, rigid and defensive, which is not good and very riskier for an entrepreneur in running
a business successfully. Reluctance becomes riskier at it narrows down approach and
entrepreneur becomes defensive in seeking new opportunities. Mark Pearson started his career at
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early age, after dropping school and winning nationwide cooking competition as he had to
support his family. Later he got a small loan within family and started successful chain of
restaurants on his own. Pearson learnt about marketing skills and other business tactics while
running a company which sold fresh rose petals. After all these successful experiences, Pearson
developed risk taking and innovative attitude which led him launching successful and one of the
most flourishing online marketing and advertisement site from a room only just at the age of 26.
However, there are many other factors within and beyond personal life and background
that affects idea of entrepreneurship its growth and development. But, the impacts levied by
personal experiences have emotional aspects and thus are more long lasting and strong. They
reflect in every walk of life and every decision of life.
Risks and Rewards of Business start-ups
Investing in start-ups is a risky task. Start-ups are propounded by business entrepreneurs
who are new in the field. Also, they comes with new ideas and products. Therefore, risk in this
context also increases, that whether product will successfully perform in market. When,
investments, strategy and efforts work good in market, it is considered reward, and if not then it
generate risk for start-up. Report have discussed risks and rewards for business start-up in brief
as follows:
Risks
 It is most unlikely that, a start-up company funded will make in Initial Public Offer
(IPO).
 Start-up companies are in the idea phase and they do not have working revenue system,
customer base and other drivers of growth of company.
 Securing funds for investments are challenging. Big commitments required to initiate new business and take it to heights may pose health
risks over new Entrepreneur.
Rewards
 It helps an individual to make realise their own ideas into practical world. This derives
satisfaction to individual entrepreneur.
 It is helpful in eradicating many negative situations of life like unemployment, low
income, wasting talent etc.
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 It also results in satisfaction of contributing in society through new products and various
other opportunities, and setting inspirations for potential entrepreneurs looking forward
for successful entrepreneurs.
 Developing positive attitude through increased responsiveness and leadership qualities.
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CONCLUSION
Therefore, it can be concluded that Small businesses and entrepreneurship have very
crucial importance in society, economy and over life of people in many ways. For society they
are helpful in bringing new innovations, businesses and such techniques which can bring good
examples and those developments that are efficient and quicker and offers many simple solutions
to complicated problems and raising standard of living. For economy they are helpful in bringing
employment opportunities, diversification of products and markets, aiding other big businesses
and industrial units etc. In context of impressions over life of people Successful entrepreneurs
helps motivating potential entrepreneurs through their qualitative traits, providing them valuable
advices, guidance, suggestions and many other useful insights which shows them directed path
towards their goals. By the time many type of entrepreneurial models has emerged which further
supports potential entrepreneurs in adopting suitable type of entrepreneurship model according to
their vision, capital and skills.
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