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Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
Africapitalism is the economic philosophy that the African private sector has the power to transform the continent through long-term investments, creating both economic prosperity and social wealth.
Theo Baloyi is a South African entrepreneur, and the founder and chief executive officer of Bathu Shoes. [1] He launched his eponymous shoe brand in 2015, having previously served as a Senior Associate at PwC in Dubai. [2] [3] He was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2019. [4] [5] In 2021, he won GQ's Business Leader of the Year. [6] [7]
Africa's Young Entrepreneurs Organization (A.Y.E.) is the foremost [1] entrepreneurship organization in Africa. A.Y.E unites and empowers entrepreneurs in Africa, by fostering social, intellectual, and financial connections thereby developing a generation of outstanding African entrepreneurs who will shape the economic landscapes of their home countries.
Studies about entrepreneurs in economics, psychology and sociology largely relate to four major currents of thought. Early thinkers such as Max Weber emphasized its occurrence in the context of a religious belief system, thereby suggesting that some belief systems do not encourage entrepreneurship. This contention has, however, been challenged ...
Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship is known as the practice of a corporate management style that integrates risk-taking and innovation approaches, as well as the reward and motivational techniques, that are more traditionally thought of as being the province of entrepreneurship.
A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. [1] [2] While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. [3]
Creative entrepreneurship is the practice of setting up a business – or becoming self-employed - in one of the creative industries.The focus of the creative entrepreneur differs from that of the typical business entrepreneur or, indeed, the social entrepreneur in that they are concerned first and foremost with the creation and exploitation of creative or intellectual capital.