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Principled Entrepreneurship Pathway. Dr. Russell S. Sobel, Ph.D. Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship. About Me. I’m a Charleston Native and my father was the voice of The Citadel Bulldogs Ph.D. from Florida State University. About Me.
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Principled EntrepreneurshipPathway Dr. Russell S. Sobel, Ph.D. Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship
About Me I’m a Charleston Native and my father was the voice of The Citadel Bulldogs Ph.D. from Florida State University
About Me Created and ran an Entrepreneurship Center at previous university Business Incubator Student Business Plan Competition
About Me Joined faculty at The Citadel in Fall 2012 Main Research Area is in Entrepreneurship • I write books/articles about how government policies impact entrepreneurship
About Me Founder and Coordinator of the ‘Principled Entrepreneurship Pathway’ Helped start the ‘Bulldog Business Bowl’ business plan competition
What is Entrepreneurship? The pathway in entrepreneurship isn’t just for those wanting to start their own business! Entrepreneurship also happens within existing businesses & organizations (“Intrapreneurship”) Entrepreneurship is about innovation • About recognizing opportunities and acting on them - Entrepreneurs are agents of change
Examples: Academic Entrepreneurship • Academic Entrepreneurship (people who create new programs or centers within existing colleges/universities)
Examples: Military Entrepreneurship Military Entrepreneurship (people who innovate on the battlefield in both strategy and technology)
Examples: Military Entrepreneurship To This: From This:
Examples: Social Entrepreneurship Social Entrepreneurship (people who innovate in the nonprofit sector)
Examples: Social Entrepreneurship Shanon Marcus McAlister
Examples: Political / Legal Entrepreneurship Political / Legal Entrepreneurship (people who discover new ways of undertaking politics or court legal proceedings)
Examples: Political Entrepreneurship Gerrymandering – Gov. Elbridge Gerry (1812) Illinois NC
Examples: Market Entrepreneurship Market Intrapreneurship & Entrepreneurship (people who innovate within an existing for-profit company or business or who create a new business)
Examples: Market Intraprepreneurship Post-It Notes: • Chemists at 3M trying to invent a “super-strong” adhesive accidently invent a “low-tack”, reusable, pressure sensitive adhesive • The yellow color was chosen by accident; a lab next-door to the Post-it team had scrap yellow paper, which the team initially used
Examples: Market Entrepreneurship Chad Walldorf
Examples: Market Entrepreneurship John LaVerne (Citadel Class of 1991) Bulldog Tours (opened 2001) is now the largest tour company in Charleston and has won “best tour company” three years in a row (offers discounts to cadets in uniform)
Examples: Market Entrepreneurship Percent of homes with Air Conditioning: 1956 = 6% 2016 = 91%
Examples: Market Entrepreneurship The Jacuzzi
Our Computers MacBook Air Least expensive-11-inch, 64GB, $999.00 Most expensive- 13-inch, 256GB, $1,599.00
The “Rock Pedal” Jordan Ellington
Our Medicine U.S. Life Expectancy has risen from 48 in 1900 to 76 today
Entrepreneurship is about believing in yourself and your idea even if nobody else does! Fred Smith’s (FedEx) Yale University Senior Project Grade Remark: • "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
Would you have invested? Microsoft Corporation 1978
Thank You / Q&A Dr. Russell S. Sobel, Ph.D.