CREATING AND
LEADING
ENTREPRENEURIAL
VENTURES
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THE CONTEXT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurs – pursue new opportunities by
changing, revolutionizing , transforming or
introducing new products or services
Entrepreneurial ventures – organizations that
pursue opportunities; are characterized by
innovative practices and have growth and
profitability as their main goals
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THE CONTEXT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (CONT.)
Small business – an organization that is
independently owned, operated, and
financed; has fewer than 100 employees;
doesn’t necessarily engage in any new or
innovative practices; and has relatively little
impact on its industry.
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THE CONTEXT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship versus Self
Employment
Self Employment – individuals who
work for profit or fees in their own
business, profession , trade or farm
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THE CONTEXT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Small Business, Entrepreneurs, Self
Employment – The Belizean
Reality?????????????
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WHY IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP IMPORTANT?
Innovation
– Engage in the creative destruction process
– Act as agents of change
• Number of New Startups
– Increasing numbers of new firms
• Job Creation
– New ventures create 60-80% of the net new jobs
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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS
Entrepreneursmust address four key
steps as they start and manage their
entrepreneurial ventures.
1. Exploring the entrepreneurial context
2. Identifying opportunities and possible
competitive advantages
3. Starting the venture
4. Managing the venture
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WHAT DO ENTREPRENEURS DO?
No two entrepreneurs are exactly the
same. Generally, entrepreneurs:
 Create something new, something different.
 Search for change, respond to it, and exploit it.
 Research feasibility—uncovering business ideas,
looking at competitors, and exploring financing
options.
 Launch and manage new ventures.
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS ISSUES
How important are ethics and social
responsibility issues to entrepreneurs?
– (95%) in a study of small companies believed
that developing a positive reputation and
relationship in communities where they do
business is important for achieving business
goals.
– However, 70 percent admitted that they failed to
consider community goals in their business
plans.
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES
 Identifying Environmental Opportunities and
Competitive Advantage:
– Entrepreneurs must be able to identify
environmental opportunities.
– Peter Drucker identified seven potential sources of
opportunity that entrepreneurs might look for in the
external context:
• the unexpected, the incongruous, the process
need, industry and market structures,
demographics, changes in perception, and new
knowledge.
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES (CONT.)
Researching the Venture’s Feasibility
– Generating Ideas – sources of their ideas are unique and
varied.
– Working in the same industry is a major source for
many ideas.
– What should entrepreneurs look for?
• limitations of what’s currently available, new and
different approaches, advances and breakthroughs,
unfilled niches, or trends and changes.
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EXHIBIT EV-1
EVALUATING POTENTIAL IDEAS
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES (CONT.)
Evaluating Ideas
– Feasibility study – an analysis of the
various aspects of a proposed
entrepreneurial venture designed to
determine its feasibility.
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EXHIBIT EV-2
FEASIBILITY STUDY
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FEASIBILITY STUDY (CONT.)
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FEASIBILITY STUDY (CONT.)
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES (CONT.)
Researching the Venture’s Feasibility —
Competitors, some possible questions:
• What types of products or services are competitors offering?
• What are the major characteristics of these products or
services?
• What are their products’ strengths and weaknesses?
• How do they handle marketing, pricing, and distributing?
• What do they attempt to do differently from other competitors?
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RESEARCHING THE VENTURE’S
FEASIBILITY—COMPETITORS (CONT.)
Questions about competitors . . .
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Do they appear to be successful at it? Why or why not?
What are they good at?
What competitive advantage(s) do they appear to have?
What are they not so good at?
What competitive disadvantage(s) do they appear to have?
How large and profitable are these competitors?
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES (CONT.)
Researching the Venture’s Feasibility —
Financing:
• Because funds likely will be needed to start
the venture, an entrepreneur must research
the various financing options.
• Venture capitalists – external equity
financing provided by professionally
managed pools of investor money.
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THE BUSINESS PLAN
 1. The Executive Summary – The key points the entrepreneur wants to make about
the propose business
- A brief mission statement
- Primary goal
- Brief History
- Nature of the business
- Concise product or service description
- Market niche
-Competitors
- Competitive advantage
- Proposed strategies
- Key Financial Information
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THE BUSINESS PLAN
2. Analysis of opportunities:
Size of the market
Demographics of the target market
Describe and evaluate the industry
trend
Identify and evaluate competitors
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THE BUSINESS PLAN
3. Analysis of the Context:
Describe the broad external changes and
trends taking place in the
Economic
Legal/political
Technological
Global Environments
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THE BUSINESS PLAN
 4. Description of the business
 Describes how the entrepreneurial venture is going to be
organized, launched and managed
 Description of the mission statement
 Desired organizational culture
 Marketing plans
 Marketing strategy
 Pricing
 Sales tactics
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THE BUSINESS PLAN
4. Financial Data and Projections:
At least three year project income statement,
pro forma cash flow analysis,
Break even analysis
Cost control
Include explanatory notes
5. Supporting Documentation
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RESEARCHING THE VENTURE’S
FEASIBILITY—FINANCING (CONT.)
Angel Investors – a private investor (or
group of private investors) who offers
financial backing to an entrepreneurial
venture in return for equity in the venture.
• Initial public offering (IPO) – the first
public registration and sale of a
company’s stock.
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EXHIBIT EV-3
POSSIBLE FINANCING OPTIONS
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STARTING A BUSINESS IN BELIZE
Conduct a name search at
the Companies’ Registry
2. Register company statutes
and memorandum and
articles of association at
the Companies’ Registry
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STARTING A BUSINESS IN BELIZE
3. Submit application to City
Council for a trade license
4. Receive inspection from City
Council inspector
5. Pay for the trade license at
the City Council
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STARTING A BUSINESS IN BELIZE
Register the company for
business at the tax services
7. Register the company for
general sales tax (GST), Social
Security
8. Registration/Protection of
International Property Rights
6.
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Discussion Question
• Over the past 20 years entrepreneurship
has been the fastest-growing course of
study on campuses throughout the
Caribbean. However, debate continues
about whether you can teach someone to
be an entrepreneur. Do you think
entrepreneurship can be taught?
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START-UP AND PLANNING ISSUES (CONT.)
Planning the Venture — Developing a
Business Plan:
– Business plan – a written document that
summarizes a business opportunity and
defines and articulates how the identified
opportunity is to be seized and exploited.
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PLANNING THE VENTURE—DEVELOPING
A BUSINESS PLAN (CONT.)
A good business plan covers six major
areas:
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Analysis of opportunity
Analysis of the context
Description of the business
Financial data and projections
Supporting documentation
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ORGANIZING ISSUES
Legal Forms of Organization
– Sole proprietorship – a form of legal
organization in which the owner maintains
sole and complete control over the business
and is personally liable for business debts.
– General partnership – a form of legal
organization in which two or more business
owners share the management and risk of the
business.
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LEGAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
(CONT.)
Limited liability partnership (LLP) – a form of
legal organization consisting of general partner(s)
and limited liability partner(s).
• Corporation – a legal business entity that is
separate from its owners and managers.
• Closely held corporation – a corporation
owned by a limited number of people who do
not trade the stock publicly.
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LEGAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
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S corporation – a specialized type of
corporation that has the regular
characteristics of a C corporation but is
unique in that the owners are taxed as a
partnership as long as certain criteria are
met.
Limited liability company (LLC) – a form of
legal organization that’s a hybrid between a
partnership and a corporation.
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LEGAL FORMS OF ORGANIZATION
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Operating agreement – the document
that outlines the provisions governing the
way an LLC will conduct business.
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TACTICS FOR BECOMING A
BUSINESS OWNER
1. Start New Business –From Scratch
2. Buy an Existing Business
3. Buy a Franchise
4. Business Incubator- provide shared office
space, management support service, and
legal advice to entrepreneurs
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TACTICS FOR BECOMING A
BUSINESS OWNER
• Franchising: special licensing: franchisee buys a complete
package:
• materials
• services
• equipment
• Products & product ingredients
• Trademark & trade name rights
• managerial advice
• standardized operating system
• eg. Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Subway
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TACTICS FOR BECOMING A
BUSINESS OWNER
• Licensing: organization in one country
makes certain resources available:
• technology,
• managerial skills,
• patent and/or trademarks
• to companies in another, in order to
participate in the production and sale eg.
Coke, Heineken
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LEGAL FORMS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS
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ORGANIZING ISSUES (CONT.)
Organizational Design and Structure
– Organizational design decisions in
entrepreneurial ventures revolve around the
six key elements of organizational structure:
• work specialization, departmentalization, chain of
command, span of control, amount of
centralization/decentralization, and the amount of
formalization.
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ORGANIZING ISSUES (CONT.)
Human Resource Management Issues in
Entrepreneurial Ventures:
– Employee Recruitment – one of the biggest
challenges that entrepreneurs face.
– Employee Retention – An entrepreneur wants
to keep the people he or she has hired and
trained.
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ORGANIZING ISSUES (CONT.)
Stimulating and Making Changes –
during any type of organizational change, an
entrepreneur may also have to act as chief
coach and cheerleader.
• The Importance of Continuing Innovation –
organizations must continually innovate new
products and services if they want to
compete successfully.
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LEADING ISSUES
Personality Characteristics of
Entrepreneurs
– Proactive personality – a personality trait
that describes individuals who are more prone
to take actions to influence their environments.
– Empowerment – giving employees the power
to make decisions and take actions on their
own to solve problems.
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LEADING ISSUES (CONT.)
Leading the Venture
– The way an entrepreneur leads the venture
should be much like the jazz leader— drawing
the best out of other individuals, even given
the unpredictability of the situation.
– Leading Employee Work Teams –
entrepreneurs must shift from the traditional
command-and-control style to a coach-andcollaboration style.
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CONTROLLING ISSUES
Planning for Growth
– Ideally is part of the venture’s overall business goals and
plan.
– Rapid growth without planning can be disastrous.
Controlling for Growth – rapid growth does
not excuse the need to have effective
controls in place.
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ACHIEVING A SUPPORTIVE,
GROWTH-ORIENTED CULTURE
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CONTROLLING ISSUES (CONT.)
Recognizing Crisis Situations:
– “Boiled frog” phenomenon – a perspective
on recognizing performance declines that
suggests watching out for subtly declining
situations.
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EXITING THE VENTURE
Harvesting – exiting a venture when an
entrepreneur hopes to capitalize financially
on the investment in the venture.
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MANAGING PERSONAL LIFE CHOICES
AND CHALLENGES
One of the most important things an
entrepreneur can do is become a good time
manager.
• Another suggestion is to seek
professional advice in those areas of
business where it’s needed.
• It’s important to deal with conflicts as
they arise.
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