ENTREPRENEURSHIP Entrepreneurship is the process of converting ideas into highly marketable. It involves the systematic organization of four essential elements: Materials, machines, money and man. WHAT IS ENTREPRENUER? An entrepreneur is an individual who has the ability to see and evaluate business opportunities. He does new things, he supplies new products, materials, new techniques of production discover. New markets and develop new source of raw materials. He attracts customers or buyers. CONCEPTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP The main concept of entrepreneurship is innovation. This refers to new different ways of doing things like marketing, technology, human relations management, and others. PERSONAL COMPETENCIES OF THE ENTREPRENEUR Opportunityseeker Ability to seek and to act on new business opportunities. Committedworker Accepts full responsibility for job orders of the customers. When he make a promise he does all possible means to keep this. He helps workers to get the job done. Risktaker He rises to the challenge and turns problems into opportunities. Hardworking He does things to ensure that work meets or exceeds his existing standard of excellence. Self-confident An entrepreneur has strong faith in his abilities. He believes he can be the best in he fields. He does not accept things as they are, because he believes that he can o things better. Persistent He formulates different alternatives to overcome possible problems that may come along the way, and make personal sacrifices to see a job completed according to specific standards. Informationseeker A successful entrepreneur personally seeks important data on clients, suppliers and would be competitors. Decisionmaker A good entrepreneur always makes correct and timely decisions on how to improve his product, how to create new markets about to business and seeks technical advice. Goalsetter A successful entrepreneur sets, specific, measureable, attainable, reliable, and time bound short term and long term goals. Goodplanner A successful entrepreneur develops and applies logical step by step plans to realize goals. He identifies alternatives follow up progress, gets feedback and makes decision. STRENGTHS OF FILIPINO ENTREPRENEURS 1. 2. 3. 4. Filipino entrepreneurs are creative Filipino entrepreneurs have charm Filipino entrepreneurs are determined Filipino entrepreneurs are maabilidad WEAKNESSES OF FILIPINO ENTREPRENEURS 1. 2. Many Filipino entrepreneurs are unaware of government programs available to them. Some Filipino entrepreneurs have a tendency to take advantage of their customers whenever they can. 3. Filipino entrepreneurs tend to be copycats saturating the market until there is oversupply of particular products or service. 4. Filipino entrepreneurs have a tendency to finish of the work with a “pwede na yan” attitude. 5. Filipino have a crab mentality “inggit”. entrepreneurs 6. Some entrepreneurs become luxurious when they succeeded in business. They put their investment on unnecessary things like new car, cell phone, and not making their goods and services better.