Owning and operating a business

Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur is a person, who recognizes a business opportunity and organizes, manages, and, assumes the risks of starting and operating a business.

Entrepreneurship is the process of recognizing an opportunity, testing it in the market, and gathering the resources necessary to go into business.

Anyone hoping to become an entrepreneur must also learn as much as possible about the business he or she plans to start.
This process includes learning about the laws, regulations, and tax codes that will apply to he business.
Creating and running a business venture requires a variety of skills.

Elements of business operations
Every business must consider 4 basic elements:
Expenses.
You have to spend money to make money. This is true when considering business expenses: new equipment, wages, taxes, electricity, telephone service, and so on.

Advertising.
When you start a business, you must make potential customers that your goods or services are available for a price. You could buy advertising space in newspapers, in various web-sites.

Record keeping.
Having a system to track your expanses and income is key to your success. You need a computer and also the programs that will allow you to track your expanses and receipts: write checks, calculate your monthly profits and losses, etc.

Risk.
Every business involves risks. You must balance the risks against the advantages of being in business for yourself.

Reward of entrepreneurship
People become entrepreneurs for a number of reasons besides making money:
Being a boss
Doing what you enjoy and using creativity
Business owner gets satisfaction from developing the enterprise
Ability to be in charge

Challenges of Entrepreneurship
There are some rewards to becoming an entrepreneur. There are also some challenges that business owners deal with in order to be successful:
Getting funds to start the business
Being fully responsible for the business
Working long hours, especially during start-up
Uncertain income levels and the risk of losing their investment if the business fails.