The Value of a
Venture
You, Investors and
Stakeholders
Global Innovation Management
Entrepreneurs
• "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in
an effort to transform innovations into economic goods".
– This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing
mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity
• The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting new
businesses
• in recent years, the term has been extended to include social and
political forms of entrepreneurial activity
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Entrepreneurs
• By the time they reach their retirement years,
half of all working men in the United States
probably have a period of self-employment of
one or more years;
– one in four may have engaged in self-employment for
six or more years
– Participating in a new business creation is a common
activity among U.S. workers over the course of their
careers
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Entrepreneurs
• The entrepreneur is widely regarded as an integral
player in the business culture of American life
– an engine for job creation and economic growth
• More than a hundred scholars around the world
track entrepreneurial activity, policy and social
influences as part of the Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor and its associated reports.
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Entrepreneurship = taking risk
Frank H. Knight (1921) and Peter Drucker (1970)
• Risk, which is measurable statistically
• Ambiguity, which is hard to measure statistically
• True Uncertainty which is impossible to estimate or
predict statistically
True State of World
Perceptions
Have
Don't
Have
Observable
Known knowns
Unknown knowns
Hidden
Known unknowns
Unknown unknowns
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What is New (and Risky) in eMarkets?
http://company.zynga.com/
http://www.blurb.com/
http://www.amazon.com/
http://store.apple.com/
http://twitter.com/
http://www.android.com/
http://www2.atmel.com/
http://www.rovio.com
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https://www.onekingslane.com/
https://www.tumblr.com/
http://wikileaks.org/
https://www.lendingclub.com/ &
http://www.prosper.com/
https://www.salesforce.com/
http://www.lifetechnologies.com/
http://www.roku.com/
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live
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Palmisano’s
guiding
framework
• Four questions:
• “Why would someone spend their money with you —
so what is unique about you?”
• “Why would somebody work for you?”
• “Why would society allow you to operate in their
defined geography — their country?”
• “Why would somebody invest their money with you?”
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