Chapter 1 Vocab
Across
- 3. The practice of operating openly and communicating fully, providing stakeholders with a clear understanding of how your enterprise operates
- 4. Individuals and companies often promise to keep information they learn secret. They often formalize this promise by signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (or NDA).
- 6. How a business communicates with large numbers of customers, motivating them to learn more about the business and its offerings.
- 9. Speech A clear, concise and compelling way to describe a business or new business concept in 30 seconds; a differentiating vision to encourage potential investors or employees to learn more
- 11. Plan A complete package that supports a "Go" decision by an entrepreneur to launch a new business.
- 12. Ethics Proper business behavior beyond complying with legal requirements.
- 15. Social Responsibility Actions entrepreneurs and companies take that go beyond their financial self-interest. These actions are voluntary but often reflect the personal beliefs of business leaders about what their companies can or should accomplish.
Down
- 1. When an entrepreneur's actions and decisions are guided by a set of beliefs about how he/she wants the business to succeed
- 2. patent gives the inventor the sole right to benefit commercially from his/her invention
- 5. copyright gives the author the sole right to benefit economically from what he/she wrote
- 7. Go The decision point at which an entrepreneur makes the final decision on whether or not to launch a new enterprise or abort the effort due to unfavorable market research or pro forma projections
- 8. trademark gives the registering individual or company the sole right to benefit from a brand or image he/she created
- 9. Question A question that prompts more than a "Yes" or "No" question.
- 10. Property Non-physical assets created by individuals or companies that hold the exclusive legal right to commercialize
- 13. of Interest A situation in which an individual might take an action to his/her advantage that would be to the disadvantage of a person or company that believes this individual is serving them.
- 14. Treating stake holders as the entrepreneur would hope others would treat him/her