Entrepreneurship: Venture Analysis and Comparative Study Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship and small business management. It begins with a definition of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the art of starting and managing a business to achieve high profits. The report then categorizes entrepreneurial ventures into high, middle, and survivor growth types, offering examples like British Petroleum. It distinguishes between entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, highlighting their roles and responsibilities. Furthermore, the report explores various typologies of entrepreneurship, including lifestyle, scalable, and social entrepreneurship, detailing their characteristics and objectives. It also examines the similarities and differences between micro, small, and medium-sized ventures based on turnover and employee numbers. Finally, the report compares private and public entrepreneurial ventures, using Iceland and British Petroleum as examples, and discusses their objectives, structure, size, and roles in the market. This report offers valuable insights into the multifaceted world of entrepreneurship, making it a useful resource for students of business management.

Entrepreneurship
and Small Business
Management

Definition of Entrepreneurship
 Entrepreneurship is basically an art which developed by the
inside the entrepreneur.
 With the support of entrepreneurship quality a person is able
to start a business or enterprise and then take specific steps
towards manage and operate that enterprise.
 The main goal of the entrepreneur is to gain high profit in the
future with the help of their entrepreneurship skills.
 In other side the enterprise is a form of business or
organization which establishes by any entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurial
Ventures There are majorly three types of the entrepreneurial
ventures are classified as High growth, Middle growth, and
Survivor growth.
 In the High growth ventures generally those businesses are
included which are run their business activities for gain high of
the high profits in the market.
 For example; British Petroleum (a Public limited company).
 In other hand Middle growth ventures included such businesses
or companies which run their business activities to gain certain
profit for fulfil their needs relating to business hobby.

Entrepreneurs v/s Intrepreneurs
 Intrapreneurs are existing inside the entrepreneurs. There are some
differences between these are mentioned below;
Entrepreneurs Intrapreneurs
Entrepreneur has authority and
ownership of any business.
Intrapreneur only focuses on manage
the business, not ownership.
Here is entrepreneur is the employer
in business.
An intrapreneur is the employee in
the business.

Typologies of
Entrepreneurship
 These all entrepreneurial ventures are completely
related to the different types of entrepreneurship.
 Here is entrepreneurship has mainly three typologies
which mentioned below;
Life Style Entrepreneurship
 When any person highly attached with business
norms and like to do things related to the business.
 In this case as an entrepreneur that person start their
business journey.
 Mostly owner of High growth venture are related to
this type of entrepreneurship in initial stage.

Different types of
Entrepreneurship
Scalable Entrepreneurship
 It is also known as scalable start-up, where a person innovate or
develop new range of product of service to provide customers in the
market.
 There are both ventures High growth and Middle growth are
related to this type of entrepreneurship.
 The main reason behind last statement is, a person which start
scalable start-up firstly analyse whole market needs and demands at
their initial stage, and try to produce such services or products which
customers are highly expecting from the market.
 In the future this type of entrepreneur will success in build high and
middle growth entrepreneurial ventures.

Cont..
Social Entrepreneurship
 Social entrepreneurship only exist in those people which want
to do something good and favourable things for the society,
culture and environment.
 The Survivor growth entrepreneurial venture is main related
to the social entrepreneurship, because this is only run business
activities for fulfil social responsibility.
 Earning profit is not major motive of this entrepreneurship.
Profit which the survivor growth venture earned fully expending
on the social activities.
 Generally Non-Profit Organizations are regulated under the
social entrepreneurship.

Similarities and Differences
between Entrepreneurial Venture
Different Size of Ventures
Micro
 In the UK, those businesses are comes under the micro venture which has up
to €2 million turnover and has 0 to 9 employees in their business environment.
Small
 There are those businesses are comes under the micro venture in the UK which
has up to €10 million turnover and has less than 50 employees in their business
environment.
Medium
 Those businesses are comes under the medium venture which has up to €50
million turnover and has less than 250 employees in their business
environment.

Similarities and Differences Between Private and
Public Entrepreneurial Ventures
 There are many similarities and differences between
private and public entrepreneurial ventures.
 Here is the British Petroleum considered as a public
entrepreneurial venture and the Iceland as a private
entrepreneurial venture.
Similarities
 Both (British Petroleum and Iceland) ventures have their own
rights.
 Both also have limited liability.
 Earning high profit is the main goal of both ventures.
 Both are existing in small and medium size businesses

Differences
Basis Private Venture (Iceland) Public Venture (British Petroleum)
Objectives The main objective of the company is
expanded their business in the new
markets.
The main objective of the company is to
gain large customer base in the different
market segments.
Structure Currently the structure of this company is
not spread at the small scale. It provides
their services only in the selected areas.
It operates their business activities at the
large scale in the UK's market and still
working on more spread their business
operations.
Size It has not bigger size as public venture. It is
medium-sized company which focuses on
increase their business size. It also has
number of stores in the UK's retail industry.
It is very big public company which
operating their business activities in the
various areas of the United Kingdom.
Roles It is mainly offers frozen foods, vegetables
and prepared meals to the customer.
It is leading Petroleum company in the UK'
feul industry which offers quality fuel the
customers.

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