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What is an Entrepren
What is an Entrepreneur?
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Entrepreneur | An individual who undertakes the creation organization and ownership of a business. |
| Venture | A new business undertaking that involves risk. |
| Entrepreneurship | The process of recognizing an opportunity, testing it in the market, and gathering resources necessary to go into a business |
| Economics | The study of how people choose to allocate scarce resources to fulfill their unlimited wants. |
| Free-Enterprise system | People have an important right to make economic choices. |
| Profit | Money that is left after all expenses of running a business have been deducted from the income. |
| Market Structure | The nature and degree of competition among businesses operating in the same industry. |
| Entrepreneurial | Acting like an entrepreneur. |
| Monopoly | A market structure in which a particular commodity has only one seller who has control over supply and can exert nearly total control over prices. |
| Oligopoly | A market structure in which there are just a few businesses for a market. |
| Goods | Tangible or physical item. |
| Service | Non tangible service or product. |
| Need | A basic thing needed for survival. |
| Want | Something u don't need for survival. |
| Factors of Production | The resources businesses use to produce the goods and service people want. |
| Scarcity | When demand exceeds supply. |
| Demand | The quantity of goods and services that consumers are willing and able to buy. |
| Elastic Demand | When a change in price changes the demand. |
| Inelastic Demand | Situations in which a change in price has very little effect on demand for products. |
| Diminishing Marginal Utility | Price alone does not determine demand. |
| Supply | The amount of a good or service that producers are willing to provide. |
| Equilibrium | The point at which consumers buy all of a product that is supplied. |
| Gross Domestic Product(GDP) | The total market value of goods and services produced by workers and Capital within a nation during a given period. |
| Business Cycle | The general pattern of expansion and contraction that the economy goes through. |
| Enterprise zone | specially designated areas of a community that provide tax benefits to new businesses locating there. |
| Opportunity | An idea that has commercial value. |
| Start-up Resources | Capital,skilled labor,management expertise legal and financial advice, facility equipment and customers needed to start a business. |
| New Venture Organization | The infrastructure or or foundation that supports all products processes and services of a new business |
| Business Failure | A business that has stopped operating with a loss to creditors. |
| Discontinuance | A business that is operating under a new name or has purposely discontinued the business. |