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What is Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a vast majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many "high-profile" entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding in order to raise capital to build the business. Angel investors generally seek returns of 20-30% and more extensive involvement in the business. Many kinds of organizations now exist to support would-be entrepreneurs, including specialized government agencies, business incubators, science parks, and some NGOs.

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What are the Career Paths in Entrepreneurship?

This path leads to:

Typical roles: Entrepreneurs, Chief Executives, Art Directors, General and Operations Managers, Computer and Information Systems Managers, Sales Managers, Industrial Production Managers, Lodging Managers, Lawyers, Multi-Media Artists and Animators

Typical tasks:

  • Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding and implementation of programs.
  • Confer with creative, art, copywriting, or production department heads to discuss client requirements and presentation concepts and to coordinate creative activities.
  • Conceptualize and help design interfaces for multimedia games, products, and devices.
  • Stay abreast of advances in technology.
  • Assign and review the work of systems analysts, programmers, and other computer-related workers.
  • Purchase necessary equipment.
  • Advise dealers and distributors on policies and operating procedures to ensure functional effectiveness of business.
  • Organize and coordinate the work of staff and convention personnel for meetings to be held at a particular facility.
  • Receive and process advance registration payments, mail letters of confirmation, or return checks when registrations cannot be accepted.
  • Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion.

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  • web development
  • mobile
  • social
  • technologies
  • content
  • applications

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