DQM Basic Units
Entrepreneurship glossary
Every term this guide defines, A to Z, each with the chapter that teaches it. Open it when a word in a question is unfamiliar, and test yourself on it in the last week: cover the definition and say it in one sentence.
10 terms from the free first chapter
D
- Drone entrepreneur
Resists change even where it would clearly benefit the business.
Taught in The entrepreneur
E
- Economic factors
Access to capital, market size, and the cost of doing business.
Taught in The entrepreneur
F
- Fabian entrepreneur
Cautious, adopts change only once its success is already established.
Taught in The entrepreneur
I
- Imitative (adoptive) entrepreneur
Copies and adapts innovations already proven elsewhere.
Taught in The entrepreneur
- Innovative entrepreneur
Introduces genuinely new products, processes or methods.
Taught in The entrepreneur
P
- Political and legal factors
Government policy, regulation, and the ease of registering a business.
Taught in The entrepreneur
- Psychological factors
An individual's own motivation, confidence and tolerance for risk.
Taught in The entrepreneur
S
- Social and cultural factors
Attitudes toward risk-taking, business and failure in a society.
Taught in The entrepreneur
- Social entrepreneur
Pursues a social or environmental mission alongside commercial return.
Taught in The entrepreneur
T
- Technological factors
Availability of infrastructure, skills and technology to exploit.
Taught in The entrepreneur
The full glossary adds every term from the other 7 chapters, A to Z, each with the chapter that teaches it.