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Site Title: Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4/e
Book Title: Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4/e
Book Author: Barringer
Location on Site: Chapter 1 > Chapter Quiz
Date/Time Submitted: March 19, 2016 at 11:34 PM (UTC/GMT)

1.

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Entrepreneurial behavior typically requires all of the following EXCEPT:
Your Answer: invention of something new.

2.

_____ is the position of a firm on a continuum ranging from highly conservative to highly entrepreneurial.
Your Answer: Entrepreneurial intensity

3.

What is the most common reason given for why people choose to become entrepreneurs?
Your Answer: To be their own boss.

4.

Some entrepreneurs report that the financial rewards associated with entrepreneurship can be bittersweet if they are
accompanied by ________.
Your Answer: losing control of the firm

5.

All of the following are characteristics shared by successful entrepreneurs EXCEPT: 

Your Answer: risk averse.

6.

Which of the following is NOT a common myth about entrepreneurs?
Your Answer: Everyone has the potential to be an entrepreneur.

7.

What do you call small firms that yield a level of income for their owner that is similar to what they would earn when
working for an employer?
Your Answer: salary­substitute firm

8.

_____ of the 27.5 million businesses in the Unites States are owned by women, minorities, seniors, and young people.
Your Answer: A growing number

9.

Influence on innovation and job creation best typifies entrepreneurial firms' ________.
Your Answer: economic impact

10.

The entrepreneurial process is comprised of each of the following steps EXCEPT:
Your Answer: inventing a new product or process.

11.

In the United States, approximately one­third of new firms fail within their first four years.

Your Answer: True

12.

Entrepreneur and inventor mean essentially the same thing.
Your Answer: False

13.

Entrepreneurship only pertains to starting new businesses, not existing firms.
Your Answer: False

14.

The average entrepreneur does NOT make more money than someone with a similar amount of responsibility in a
traditional job.
Your Answer: False
Correct Answer: True

 

See p. 9 for more information.

15.

The number one characteristic shared by successful entrepreneurs is creativity.
Your Answer: False

16.

Execution intelligence refers to developing a business model, putting together a new venture team, raising money,
establishing partnerships, managing finances and leading and motivating employees.
Your Answer: True

17.

According to research, most entrepreneurs are born, not made.
Your Answer: False

18.

Only individuals that thrive on taking big risks have the right personality to be an entrepreneur.
Your Answer: False

19.

After winning a medal for diving in the Olympics, Cheryl starts a diving instruction school. This is an example of a lifestyle
firm.
Your Answer: True

20.

In recent years, the fastest growing areas for women­owned firms have been in cosmetology, fashion merchandising, and
hair salons.
Your Answer: False

21.

Discus entrepreneurship's importance to the economy and society as a whole:
Your Answer:
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22.

What are the steps of the entrepreneurial process?
Your Answer:
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