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Filipino Entrepreneur Success Factors

This document discusses entrepreneurship and what is needed to become a successful entrepreneur. It outlines qualities like diligence, initiative, flexibility, and risk-taking. A successful entrepreneur has professional skills, works independently, faces risks responsibly, and finds useful contacts. To become an entrepreneur requires a strong will, good idea, skills, experience, capital, and entrepreneurship knowledge. Reasons to become an entrepreneur include being your own boss, succeeding, fulfilling oneself, and gaining respect. Entrepreneurial skills can be learned through education, exams, courses, experience, and self-education. The document focuses on Filipino entrepreneurs expected to emulate former colonizers in business.

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Filipino Entrepreneur Success Factors

This document discusses entrepreneurship and what is needed to become a successful entrepreneur. It outlines qualities like diligence, initiative, flexibility, and risk-taking. A successful entrepreneur has professional skills, works independently, faces risks responsibly, and finds useful contacts. To become an entrepreneur requires a strong will, good idea, skills, experience, capital, and entrepreneurship knowledge. Reasons to become an entrepreneur include being your own boss, succeeding, fulfilling oneself, and gaining respect. Entrepreneurial skills can be learned through education, exams, courses, experience, and self-education. The document focuses on Filipino entrepreneurs expected to emulate former colonizers in business.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CHAPTER 1 MODULE 2
THE FILIPINO ENTREPRENUER
ENTREPRENEURSHIP is often connected with:
The possibility to fulfill oneself
The possibility to succeed economically
Being economically risky
Working with a broad network
Making independent decisions
Being responsible
What is needed for Entrepreneurship?
 Entrepreneurship needs the same qualities that are
needed in working life, studying or with hobbies. As
an entrepreneur you should be:

Diligent Initiative
Service-oriented Social
Flexible Self-confident
Willing to improve Creative, an innovator
Target-oriented Bold, a risk taker
Able to make choices Resourceful
Able to influence others
A successful ENTREPRENEUR should have:
Professional skills
Will work independently
Will to be responsible and be able to face
risks
Ability to work productively
Ability to find useful contacts
Support of the family
ENTREPRENEURSHIP starts with a will
• To start entrepreneurship you need:

A strong will to try


A good idea
Professional skills
Working experience
Knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship
Starting capital
Reasons to become an ENTREPRENEUR:
Entrepreneurs were asked to list the reasons behind their decision to become an
entrepreneur. The main reasons were:
To be your own master Chance to fulfill oneself
Will to succeed Chance to fulfill oneself
Tradition of entrepreneurship in the family To be influential and to gain respect
How does one become an ENTREPRENEUR?
There are many reasons to become an
ENTREPRENEUR. Some common reasons are:

A good business idea


Continuing the family entrepreneurial tradition
Special skills acquired through a hobby
Knowledge or skills in a specific area
Possibility to make a living
Chance, coincidence or special offer
Example set by another entrepreneur
How can one learn ENTREPRENEURAL skills?
Entrepreneurial skills can be acquired through:

Vocational or other education and training


Passing the examination of entrepreneurs;
further qualification or the specialist
qualification for entrepreneurship
Courses in entrepreneurship
Self-education
On-the-job learning
From other entrepreneurs
By acquiring own experiences
THE FILIPINO ENTREPRENEUR
Expected to DUPLICATE its former colonizers (Americans & Spaniards) in
undertaking business.
Generic view in the Philippines
“Entrepreneurship is essentially starting a business of his own, new, small-scale
business.” (Peter Drucker)
Success stories and documentations of successful Filipino businessmen of
entrepreneurs are focused on the notion that “entrepreneurs refers being
engaged in small & medium enterprise s (SMEs) or establishing and managing
a business of his own.
• And last

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