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TimestampBefore responding, please indicate that you freely consent to this voluntary survey, noting that you may drop out anytime and your response will be anonymous and all data are aggregated.What is your definition of entrepreneurship?What is different about today's entrepreneurship than entrepreneurship in past eras?What is the biggest challenge in getting more entrepreneurs to start entrepreneuring?What is the biggest misconception about entrepreneurship?What is the biggest or most common mistake entrepreneurs make?If you could give one piece of advice to an entrepreneur starting out today, what would it be?
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5/17/2013 14:14:38AcceptOrganizing creativity, leadership and resources to create something needed or in-demand to the marketplace.The length of time to start an operation has been quickly reduced. You can establish a new business within a day as opposed to decades ago.Lack of knowledge.It's easy.They continue to operate as though it is easy by not completing necessary tasks to be successful.After the product or service is created, budget for marketing.
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5/17/2013 15:24:29AcceptSomeone who organizes and operates a business or businesses, embracing both personal and financial risks to do so.Today's environment offers the availability of significant mentoring / education and guidance as well as financial assistance. While financial assistance vary's with market economies, funding can be acquired more easily than in past eras Making them aware of the plethora of services available to them, mostly at no-cost to them in hopes that they would avail themselves of these services to more easily and readily bring their business ideas to fruition with a viable and working complete business plan. If they know of these services, their basic fears and misconceptions can be managed and overcome.Everyone in the marketplace will clamor to acquire your product or service and you'll be rich very quicklySetting sights out of reach and not planning properlybe sure that you have planned the business properly and adequately including testing the market and ensure that your plan has been validated by a mentor or counselor before commencing the business
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5/18/2013 12:59:22AcceptThe act of taking an idea, innovation, product, or service and turning it into a sustainable businessToday's technology advances have made it possible to take your vision to market much faster than in the past.The entrepreneur is his/her own biggest problem. The confidence to be an entrepreneur is only built by doing. We must get them to do more. Events like StartUp Weekend make it possible. Anyone can do it. Technology today makes it easy to built something, but just because you can build it or have it built doesn't make you an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur mean making it into a business and that's where most fail...they don't even try.Charging ahead and doing something to get the vision off the ground rather than taking the time to figure out what path to take first. The Ready Fire Aim approach is a thing of the past. Entrepreneur's in general subscribe to the "School of Do" not the method of planning and executing that plan.Build a solid team early and never do it by yourself. Reach out to the community and build your business with them.
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5/18/2013 18:04:11AcceptMaking your own path and your own income while creating new ideas that turn into a sustainable business.Today's is a necessity to jump start our economic funk and remind people that before there were large corporations people made a living using their own means.Getting over the fear that you wont survive or pay your bills.That it's easy and that it is always successful, because the reality is it's hard work and you have to be ready to fail, learn, fail, succeed, fail, learn again, try again, etc...Giving up too early and/or not believing in their ideas.Be persistent and true to your idea, but open enough to change it when genuine feedback tells you that you should.
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6/6/2013 0:01:17AcceptCreating a scalable venture.Faster time to market.Fear - Failure rates are very high.Novel idea is worth everything -- That's valuable, but execution trumps innovation.Investing before testing -- try to test your idea before building it.Stay employed while rapidly testing your idea for success indicators.
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6/27/2013 7:54:44AcceptI think of entrepreneurship as the practice of starting or buying or owning businesses, but I think that even people who don't own businesses can demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset by displaying such characteristics and behaviors as future orientation, risk acceptance, optimism and persistence.That it's attractive primarily to young people. Failing to pivot quickly enough, either because they follow one path blindly, or they discount others' advice, or they don't foresee key market changes.Create great support systems for yourself and stay connected to your passion.
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