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Week 2 Entrepreneurship Creativity & Innovation
Week 2 Entrepreneurship Creativity & Innovation
&
New Venture
CREATIVITY
Remember Entrepreneurs Are:
Innovative
Creative
Excellence
Egos
The Entrepreneurial Vision
Innovation not imitation
Propensity to Action
Marketing honesty
anything
Reality it could do very little
Convenience
Risk mitigation
Environmental friendliness
Customer productivity
What is the biggest block to
customer’s productivity?
How does your product or service
eliminate it?
Customer productivity
Hoover’s leap in suction power
made vacuum cleaning quicker
and easier.
Simplicity
What is the greatest source of
complexity for customers?
How does this innovative product or
service create?
Risk Mitigation
Enron’s commodity swaps and
futures contracts stripped the
volatility out of gas and electric
prices before they got caught up in
their financial troubles.
Fun and Image
What are the biggest blocks to
enjoyment and image?
How does this innovative product or
your process.
DATA-GATHERING
EXPERTISE
“Chance favors the expert.”
Pasteur
problem?
Are you creating bigger problems
your idea?
How to keep the ideas coming..
Put a technology to other uses
Modify, adapt
else instead)
Rearrange, reverse or combine