Entrepreneurship: Traits, Background, Experience, and Skills Analysis

This presentation delves into the core concepts of entrepreneurship and small business management, examining the critical characteristics, traits, and skills essential for success. It explores how individuals like Larry Page and Peter Jones exemplify these qualities, highlighting their innovative thinking, leadership, and passion. The presentation also analyzes the impact of an entrepreneur's background and experience, including family influence and work history, on their ability to navigate challenges and seize opportunities. It further discusses the OCEAN personality model and its relevance to entrepreneurship. By critically evaluating the positive and negative impacts of various factors, the presentation offers a comprehensive overview of what it takes to foster and sustain a successful entrepreneurial venture, concluding with a summary of key takeaways and references for further study.

Entrepreneurship and small business
management

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Characteristics trait and skill of entrepreneur
• Background and experience can hinder and foster relationship
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Entrepreneurship is the main characteristics that attracts people by introducing new
ides and implement them in effective manner. There are different skills and traits
having in entrepreneurs which helps to perform a business effectively by using new
ideas and get profits by influencing people. This presentation discusses about
different characteristics and traits of person as well as background and experience
that can foster or hinder the entrepreneurship.

Characteristics traits and skills of a successful entrepreneur
• Different entrepreneurs have various characteristics, traits and skills that are as defined:
• Larry page and Peter Jones are successful British business owners who have
different capabilities:
• Characteristics
Larry page:
• Innovative:
• Persistent:

Skills
• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Peter Jones
• Passionate:
• Delegation
• Networking skills
• Management skills

Aspects of entrepreneurial personality
• All entrepreneurs have different personality that is defined through Ocean personality
model such as:
• Openness
• Conscientiousness:
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism

M3 Different lines of argument
• It has been explored that entrepreneurs are innovating new ideas and implementing
them which helps to run a business continuously. Characteristics are important that
are used to face the challenges by taking risk and bring innovation in their business.
Moreover, it helps to achieve business objectives by having entrepreneurial traits.
For instance, Larry Page and Peter Jones have passionate, delegation, innovative etc.
traits that helped to deal with difficulties and support to become successful
entrepreneurs.

D3 Characteristics traits, skills and motivational
drivers
• A successful entrepreneur has unequal traits, skills and motivational drivers that
make different from other and get work done from employees effectively. It helps to
motivate employees to face the changes and respond properly that helps to meet with
organizational objectives. For instance, Peter Jones having passionate and work
delegation characteristics and networking and Management skills that helps to build
relationship with all people and create business opportunities in order to attain
business goals

P7 Background and experience can hinder or foster entrepreneurship
Work experience and family background helps entrepreneur to deal with critical
situation and learn new things in order to grab opportunities of running business.
Background and experience of Peter Jones and Larry Page are following as:
• Family Background: Such person took birth on 18 march, 1956 in Berkshire,
England
• Experience: In early childhood, Peter Jones has developed his personal computer
with his brand.
American Inventor
• Peter Jones has supported family which are playing a supportive role as he get
support from his family and implement the innovation which helps to fostered the

Cont.….
• Larry Page:
• Family Background: This entrepreneur took birth on 26 March, 1973 at
Michigan which is situated in US.
• Experience: In childhood, Larry Page was interested in computer, technology as
well as science that helps him to become a successful entrepreneur

M4 Link between entrepreneurial characteristics
• The characteristics traits are directly related with experience and background of
entrepreneurs that helps to evaluate future activities and goal of a person. Good
experience and background helps to face all problems easily and make his own luck.
Such as Larry Page was belonged to rich family that helped to establish own business.
Moreover, by having innovative and persistent characteristics he changes the world. In
contrary, Peter Jones was not from a rich family due to which they faced many
problems but launch their new business idea successfully. The characteristics
passionate and delegation of work support him to compete the target and reach their
success.

D4 Critically evaluation of experience and background
• Positive impact: As having different personality and characteristics various hurdles and
struggle can be faced by entrepreneurs that helps to develop new ideas and innovation to
run their business. Moreover, they look forward as Peter Jones and Larry Page seek their
growth and development of business.
• Negative impact: Lack of personality traits and characteristics restricts to become
successful entrepreneur. Such person cannot manage their business and no innovations
can be implemented by business concern.