The fourth FACTOR OF PRODUCTION, after land, labour and capital, which organizes production and undertakes the risk of an enterprise. In JOINT STOCK COMPANIES, the risk bearing is undertaken by the shareholders; in small businesses, usually by the...

Entrepreneurs In general, entrepreneurs are enthusiastic and bright risk takers who are willing to take a chance and create new markets. In the computer industry, some have become very wealthy, very fast. During the last half of the twentieth century,...

"[An] entrepreneur is a person who habitually creates and innovates to build something of recognized value around perceived opportunities" (Kotelnikov Internet article). This "recognized value" should incorporate social and...

An entrepreneur is a person who operates a new enterprise or venture and assumes some accountability for the inherent risks. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. A female entrepreneur is...

Entrepreneurs Alan R. Earls The First Forty Years, Frederick Van Veer, Teradyne Inc., 200J; $19.95. Corporate histories are often a refuge for banalities and self-congratulation. This volume largely escapes that fate and provides an entertaining and informauve inside view of one...

LAUREN COLEMAN-LOCHNER, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-02-1996 ENTREPRENEUR -- THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST TELL HOW IT'S DONE By LAUREN COLEMAN-LOCHNER, Staff Writer Date: 06-02-1996, Sunday Section: BUSINESS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday CLARIFICATION: The company profiled in today's...

Dilip Kotecha figured his working days were over when he retired from the food-manufacturing industry. But after an unused patent for instant yogurt landed in his lap, he couldn't resist turning the dormant technology into a business."I would say our company wouldn't even be there...

The head of a California-based veterans charity rebuffed accusations of mismanagement and self-dealing at a raucous congressional hearing Thursday, shouting over lawmakers to declare himself "the most honest person in this room.""I may be the only guy in the whole cotton-picking nonprofit establishment who's willing...

Being a business owner requires many qualities including the following: creativity, responsibility, an inquisitive nature, goal oriented, independent, self-demanding, self-fonfident, risk-taking, and a restlessness for success.