Entrepreneurship Report: Ventures, Impact, and Brexit Analysis

This report delves into the multifaceted world of entrepreneurship, examining various entrepreneurial ventures and their typologies, including small, social, and scalable businesses. It analyzes the similarities and differences between male and female entrepreneurs, as well as lifestyle and serial entrepreneurs. The report assesses the significant impact of small and micro enterprises on the economy at local, regional, and national levels, highlighting their role in job creation and economic growth. Furthermore, it explores the role of small businesses in fostering the growth of the social economy in the context of Brexit. The report also identifies the key characteristics, traits, and skills of successful entrepreneurs, differentiating them from managers, and discusses factors that either hinder or foster entrepreneurial endeavors. The report provides a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship's impact, challenges, and opportunities, providing valuable insights into the entrepreneurial landscape.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1 Different kinds of entrepreneurial ventures and its related typologies..................................1
P2 Similarities and Difference between entrepreneurial ventures..............................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Interpret and assess how small & micro enterprise impact on economy...............................5
P4 Role of small business in improving growth of social economy after 'Brexit'......................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
P5 Characteristics, traits and skills of successful entrepreneurs and differentiation with
manager.......................................................................................................................................9
P6 Skills of entrepreneurs which shows entrepreneurial motivation and mindset....................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
P7 Factors which hinder or foster entrepreneurship.................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship is the procedure who individually begins their business and bear all
risks as well as losses through themselves. It is an changing process for creating wealth through
taking higher risk within their enterprises (Blackburn, Hart and Wainwright, 2013). It can be in
any form like as cost, time, quality and many more. Entrepreneurs have lots of innovative and
new ideas which help in producing new products in the marketplace. With this, it is important for
entrepreneur to be creative and innovative in order to attract high numbers of buyers.
Management of small business is the procedure of managing operations as well as activities
which is conducted in small business for maintaining and controlling them in an effective
manner. In this assignment, it includes various kinds of ventures and its typologies. In this, they
also analyse experience as well as background of entrepreneur which foster and hinder the
entrepreneurship.
TASK 1
P1 Different kinds of entrepreneurial ventures and its related typologies
Entrepreneurial Ventures
This venture is same like a regular business but it is not so. It is a enterprise which is run
by creative or innovative people and they know how they can grab opportunity to manufacture
economic as well as social value in their enterprise effectively. This is very fast in creating
wealth with higher risk in order to produce services and goods.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur begins their own business as well as run their enterprise functions with
limited resources. This person is only responsible in order to make innovative as well as new
goods through bearing all risks and losses by themselves (Bridge and O'Neill, 2012).
Types of entrepreneurs Serial entrepreneurs: Individual person begins their own business in a continuous
manner as well as sell it at the stage of later. In this, they are having various types of new
and innovative ideas as well as finance. Social entrepreneurs: In this, individual person mainly focus on solving problems of
society instead of earning higher level of profits. This type of persons are more capable
and ambitious in handling essential social issues are faced by society members.
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 Female entrepreneurs: This type of entrepreneurs run whole enterprise in which mainly
it involve women's. These enterprise are owned as well as regulated by women itself. In
this, entrepreneur are responsible for creating 50% employment.
 Male entrepreneurs: Under this, business venture is managed as well as controlled
through male entrepreneur. The main aim of these entrepreneurs is to gain the
competitive advantages at market place through providing the unique products to target
consumers. Serial entrepreneurs: These kind of entrepreneurs work with the passion and like to
explore the new things. Their major focus is on make innovation in its existing products
and satisfy demands and needs of consumers in a proper manner.
Entrepreneurship
It means as the capabilities as well as willingness to organise, develop and manage a
business venture by taking high risk in order to gain profits. This is a person who run as well as
develop all the business activities by themselves.
Kinds of entrepreneurial ventures Small business entrepreneurship: As per current scenario, there are 6 millions small
business which are running within present market in UK. It include various types of
business like as grocery stores, travel agents, electricians, consultants and many more.
These all run their own business by their own risks as well as profits through themselves.
In United Kingdom, there are around 5.7 million of small business which provide the
employment opportunities to local people for the purpose of enhance their living
standard. Social Entrepreneurship: In this type of business are running to provide benefits to
society through giving them goods according to their needs. They produce a healthy
products which do not provide harm to society in negative way (Carsrud and Brännback,
2011). These are mainly innovators and their focus on developing the services or
products which can solve social problems and requirements. Scalable Entrepreneurship: Their are the enterprises which create by their better ideas.
These types of entrepreneurship has a vision of modifying world by their ideas. Scalable
entrepreneur manage funds from market and convince peoples in order to invest on their
ideas.
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Relationship of ventures with its typologies
Kinds of Topology Lifestyle ventures: These types of business give immediate profits to enterprise. This
venture mostly prefer to work alone. In this, main focus of the lifestyle venture is to earn
the profit and make improvement in its lifestyle. They select business that can reflect
their passion and focused more in doing that they want. Survival ventures: In this types of business are started in order to fulfil basic needs of
family (Chittithaworn and et. al., 2011). These kind of small businesses are internet cafe,
barber store, grocery store and so on. These kinds of venture are mainly start their
business at small scale and earn for their survival or fulfil basic needs.
 Managed growth ventures: In this types of business are run through a smart businessman
as this type of people know how to make lots of finance. These persons mainly invest
only on those enterprises where person know that their finance will definitely earn profits
and it will not go waste.
P2 Similarities and Difference between entrepreneurial ventures
Small, social, scalable start-ups and large are different types of entrepreneurial ventures
which exit in market. These are various forms of firms which depend on businessperson and
resource availability (Chrisman and et. al., 2012). This affect on scale of operations and
objectives which are set by them in according to sustain its position in market. Hence, these are
similarities and differences of different entrepreneurial ventures which is stated below:
Male and Female entrepreneurial ventures
Difference among male and female entrepreneurs
Female entrepreneurs Male entrepreneurs
Enterprises are owned and managed through
female entrepreneur.
These kind of enterprises are operated and run
through the male entrepreneur.
Female Entrepreneur are sensible and
ambitious in respect to their work. But male
entrepreneur are not sensible and have passion
to make money from activities.
Male entrepreneur have ability to make
decisions which are beneficial for them, while
female sometimes face issue that is handle
situations properly.
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Similarities among female and male entrepreneurs
Female entrepreneurs Male entrepreneurs
Female entrepreneurs conduct work for
utilising their skills and knowledge to achieve
objectives which are set by them.
The male entrepreneurs enhance s knowledge
to attain the set objectives with in given period
of time.
The main motive of female entrepreneurs is to
earn profit and retain at market place for long
period of time.
Male entrepreneurs conduct their business for
the purpose of generating more revenue.
Lifestyles and Serial
Difference among serial and lifestyle entrepreneurs
Lifestyle ventures Serial ventures
In lifestyle venture, an individual keep rights
and conduct business activities effectively.
Serial venture are firms of which ownership
gets transfer to another person.
The lifestyle entrepreneurs start business to
complete their passion.
They make innovation in business for satisfy
needs of customers.
Similarities among lifestyle and serial entrepreneurs
Lifestyle ventures Serial ventures
They explore the new things and also want
change.
They link to bring the new or unique concept.
These are passionate towards work. Under these ventures, entrepreneurs are serious
and also passionate to work in a better manner.
TASK 2
P3 Interpret and assess how small & micro enterprise impact on economy
Their are various types of business which are conducted in society. It is divided within
three various parts which are given below:
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 Micro Business: This type of business are mainly having its single owner. In this, total
numbers of employees are working which involve 0-9 owners. These type of businesses
are mostly started by female and young entrepreneurs. In UK with support of regulatory
bodies, near about 5.3 million micro business are running (Micro and small-business
ventures, 2017). Small Business: In this, it is a type of business which initially starts through an specific
person those aim is to gain higher profits. Here, employees range is 0-500 only. Every
new enterprise who begin their business in small scale. These businesses are responsible
in order to create 65% of employment opportunities in past 20 years. Medium Size Business: These companies are divided within small and large businesses.
This types of enterprises are somewhere in between as there is not having official
definition given for this. In this numbers of employees are from 250 to 500.
Impact of economy on micro and small businesses
Management of small as well as micro enterprises are used to conduct a proper research
in order to identify current trends in the market (Goss, 2015). This will help in determining
buyers needs as well as produce products. Mainly, these types of enterprises are divided on the
basis of micro as well as small as per its numbers of employees, size and structure. Major impact
lies in micro and small sized business are given below:
Local impact: Companies in this sector impact on local locations in a large manner as they focus
on completing demands of citizens only. They mostly target the local customers only at the time
of establishing as well as running their business. In this, they give job opportunities to local
peoples which aid in decreasing unemployment rate.
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(Source: Local impact on micro and small enterprises, 2017)
Interpretation: In this above graph, it is interpret by raising of small business it will aid in
decreasing unemployment within the country. Micro level business give job opportunities to
18.9%, small enterprises provide employment to 23.4% population as well as medium company
provide 29.2% of vacancies.
Regional impact: Both sector of company provide huge impact on societies in an positive and
negative manner (Karlan and Valdivia, 2011). In this, they complete the demands of local
peoples which reflect on its positive side of micro business. It will provide negative part at the
time of selling services as well as goods at fixed price.
(Source: Regional impact on micro and small enterprises, 2016)
Interpretation: As per above data, there are two different countries mention one is United
Kingdom and other is European Union. As comparison to European Union, the small businesses
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Illustration 1: Local impact on micro and small enterprises
Illustration 2: Regional impact on micro
and small enterprises

in United Kingdom provide the more job opportunities to local people. According to graph, from
year 2013 to 2019 more people employed. From developing the small business, UK country
develop positive regional impact.
National impact: In these business in small sector are raising at very fast rate. Therefore, earning
power of them also provide influence on nation economy.
(Source: National impact on micro and small enterprises, 2016)
Interpretation: As per above graph, it shows gross domestic product rate of UK raise from 1%
to 3.9% at the year 2010 to 2015.
P4 Role of small business in improving growth of social economy after 'Brexit'
Brexit is an impending withdrawal of United Kingdom from European Union. It is used
to consult about the various prospects for withdrawal of both the countries. In order to leave the
European Union, there are 51.9% of people of United Kingdom elected vote on 29 March 2017.
during the final discussion, Prime minister announced an intention of government that United
Kingdom would not to be seek towards the permanent membership of single European market
after leaving European Union (Jones and Rowley, 2011). After the Brexit, small and start- up
business contribute towards the economies through make innovation. The small business firms
help in enhance the economic growth with the help of providing the better employment
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Illustration 3: (Source: National impact on micro and small enterprises,
2016)

opportunities to local people. The start- up and small business develop positive impact on social
economy of country.
For an example- Small firms provide the employment opportunism to local people and
from this they can earn and make improvement in their living standard. Through this, they can
able to purchase things and contribute towards economy of country.
Difference among Start- ups and Small scale business
Start up Small scale business
Start up business needs more money to begin
the different business operations and activities.
These businesses are establish so there is not
more requirements of money to operate
business.
It develops own creative as well as innovate
idea or thoughts and also capture the large
market size.
It provides traditional products to consumers.
The main focus of start up business on the fast
development as well as scaling business.
The productivity of small business is limited.
It has aspirations to make large affect and also
objective to disruptive.
These businesses are self content and also have
the fixed boundaries.
Impact of small enterprises on economy of United Kingdom
On the basis of existing market condition of United Kingdom, there are many small size
organisations which operate their business and give contribution towards an economy of country.
In context to this, small businesses are backbone of an economy of United Kingdom and helpful
in developing the jobs (Neck and Greene, 2011). There are some affect of small business firm
on an economy of United Kingdom:
Creating job opportunities- Under this, small business organisations provide its
contribution in develop the more job opportunities for local people. It will helpful in improving
their standard of living and poverty will be removed.
For an example- In UK, there is around 99.3% of private sector business at beginning of
2016 and 99% were small and medium size. They SME provided around 15.7 million to people.
In United Kingdom, there is almost 50% of working population.
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Impact on revenue and taxes- It provide the strong affect on develop the many job
vacancies with a economy. It is helpful in generate the income level with in nation because they
need to pay the taxes. This is having the direct relationship with revenues as well as taxes. In
context to this, if revenue will be enhanced then from this high income level will be enhanced.
For an example- The small size business contributing around 47% of revenue to
economy of UK. It helps in expanding the small business at the large scale.
Social and economic development- Small companies are consider as powerhouse of an
economy of United Kingdom. It has been measured that in United Kingdom, there are 5 million
micro and small size organisations. They provide the jobs above 15.2 million job opportunities.
It is helpful in develop the positive affect on United Kingdom economy.
Financial support- If small scale firm will be more in country then it will enhance the
rate of employment (Schaper and et. al., 2014). The government of United Kingdom provide the
funds to small business in order to conduct their business operations and adopt the new
technologies. With the help of this, small firms can conduct its business operations at the large
scale.
For an example- 93% of the financing needs of small size business are met through
informal and internal sources. 3 million of small firms contribute around 50% of industrial
output.
TASK 3
P5 Characteristics, traits and skills of successful entrepreneurs and differentiation with manager
Starting up a venture easy task but entrepreneur faces challenges and they require to have
complete knowledge about market conditions to utilise opportunities and implement innovative
ideas in firm. For this, individual require to have appropriate skills and characteristics to conduct
operations effectively.
Richard Branson and James Dyson are successful businessperson which have adequate
features to manage resources efficiently. These are characteristic which help entrepreneur to
make success and growth in business are: Decision-making and risk taking: Richard Branson and James Dyson have good
judgement making skills which help them to make decisions which are beneficial for
firm. Besides this, they even need to be competent to take challenges and risk which are
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related with enlarging business and conduct activities internationally which have large
number of competitors (Storey, 2016). Hard working: Richard Branson and James Dyson are hard working that is they are
committed and focused towards their business. Both entrepreneur are ready to take
initiatives and implement innovative and creative business ideas to execute activities
effectively.
 Motivational: Richard Branson and James Dyson are successful entrepreneur which
define that both are competent and skilled to design system and conduct activities to
timely accomplish objectives. For this, they establish and maintain relations with
employees to make them dedicated and motivated to perform tasks effectively, thereby
complete targets within defined deadline.
Henceforth, Richard Branson and James Dyson are two successful entrepreneur which
have good communication skills, hard working, motivation capabilities, decision-making traits
and risk abilities to conduct business activities and accomplish business objectives. It is
necessary that Joe Woods also have these characteristics to regulate and make venture function
effectively.
Difference between managers and entrepreneurs on the basis of characteristics:-
Characteristics/Skills Manager Entrepreneur
Strategic Vision Manager require to have proper
vision which help them to
develop strategies to guide
employees and conduct
business activities in efficient
manner (Unger and et. al.,
2011).
Entrepreneur vision is to
construct creative ideas
which are implemented in
system to conduct
operations and sustain its
position in market.
Communication Manager require to have good
communication skills to inform
employees about goals and
targets to make them perform
tasks accordingly.
Entrepreneur need to have
proper communication
skills which are used to
provide work and inform
subordinates about business
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