1. Youth Entrepreneurship
from the Concept
towards the Setting up
of an enterprise
Emmanuel Labithianakis
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Introducing…
An entrepreneur is an
enterprising individual who builds
capital through risk and/or
initiative
WIKIPEDIA
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What does it take?
•Passion
if you can’t sleep at night, because you’re
thinking of your business’ success, go for it!
•Idea
what? how? when? to whom?
•Differentiation
Unique Selling Proposition, Customer
Experience
•Organization & Calculation
SWOT analysis, Management, Profit & Loss,
Budget
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Passion
Be inspired
Be careful
and methodical
Invest on your
Knowledge/skills/experience
Improve your deficiencies
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•Don’t look for something new to the world
everything has already been discovered/invented
Idea?
•Find your own “blue ocean”
too many sharks in “red oceans”,
competing for the same fish
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Idea Generation
Idea Screening
Business Analysis
Development
Test Marketing
Commercialization
New Product
Too many ideas. Which one?
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Differentiation
•Not bad to imitate
just do it better, cheaper, faster
•Create your own unique offering
a Unique Selling Proposition, something that offers customers a new
experience
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Degree of differentiation
Market 1 Market 2 Market 3
Product 1
Mass marketing
Same product to all consumers
Product 2
Product 3
Market 1 Market 2 Market 3
Product 1 Segment Marketing
Different products to more
segments
Product 2
Product 3
Market 1 Market 2 Market 3
Product 1
Niche Marketing
One product to one segment
Product 2
Product 3
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Organization & Calculation
Strategy is doing either different things from your competitors, or
doing the same things differently
Michael Eugene Porter, University Professor at Harvard Business School.
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Organization & Calculation
1. Intrduction
Contents
Executive Summary
2. Analytical Description of the Enterprise
Ownership
History
Description of the section
Products & Services
Position of the enterprise in the section
Human Capital
3. Analytical Description of the Market
Market Segmentation
Target Market Segment Strategy
Market Needs
Market tendency
Market Growth
Section Analysis
Key players
Distribution Methods
Main Competitors
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4. Strategy & Implementation Summary
Product Strategy
Marketing Strategy
Distribution Strategy
Selling Strategy
5. Budget
Main assumptions
P&L (Costs vs. Revenues 5year forecast)
Cash-flow statement
Break-even analysis
6. Conclusion
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Organization & Calculation
3 reasons why start-ups fail
1.wrong assessment of capital needs
2.overestimation of self competence
3.lack of business plan
Where does the money come from?
1.personal of family assets
2.banks ()
3.state or EU subsidization programs
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Sales
Viral marketing, viral advertising, or marketing buzz are buzzwords referring
to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks and other technologies
to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives
(such as product sales)
Watch Like Follow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj29qmLnBiE
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What does your social media presentation
provides you with?
• free showcase
o should be backed up with a web page with e-
shopping capabilities (www.hellaspay.gr)
• opportunity to show your expertise
o share useful information, upload relevant articles,
search results, FAQs etc.
o regular updates
o be serious
o be consistent
• add value
o offers
o contests
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