Opportunity Recognition - Answers The ability to perceive changes or untapped possibilities that
might be sources of profit for the venture.
Opportunity Assessment - Answers Ability to evaluate the content structure of opportunities to
accurately determine their relative attractiveness
Risk Mitigation - Answers Actions that reduce either risk or the potential impact of a negative
outcome
Self-efficacy - Answers An individual's belief that he or she is capable of performing a task.
Imaginativeness - Answers The ability to produce novel, useful outcomes by relating previously
unrelated objects.
Tenacity - Answers The ability to overcome difficulties and obstacles that impede the
achievement of your goals.
Guerilla Tactics - Answers Unconventional, low-cost tactics that allow the entrepreneur to do
more with less.
Resilience - Answers The ability to deal with stress and disturbances and rebound or even thrive
in the face of adversity.
Personal Branding - Answers The practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as
brands, including how they perceive you and what they say about you.
What are the two general mindsets? - Answers fixed mindset and growth mindset
Fixed Mindset - Answers The assumption held by people who perceive their talents and abilities
as set traits
Growth Mindset - Answers The assumption held by people who believe that their abilities can be
developed through dedication, effort, and hard work
True or False: A person with mixed mindset can be trained to have a growth mindset - Answers
True
Entrepreneurial mindset - Answers the ability to quickly sense, take action, and get organized
under uncertain conditions
Metacognition - Answers Our ability to understand and be aware of how we think and the
processes we use to think.
True or False: Passion is always functional? - Answers False. Dysfunctional passion might
cause a person to ignore negative information or fail to see a warning sign.
, What are the three habits that promote an entrepreneurial mindset? - Answers 1. Self-leadership
2. Creativity
3. Improvisation
Self-leadership - Answers The process of influencing oneself to establish the self-direction and
self-motivation needed to perform a task
Behavioral-focused Strategies - Answers Methods to increase self-awareness and manage
behaviors, particularly when dealing with necessary but unpleasant tasks. These methods
include:
1. Self-observation
2. Self-goal setting
3. Self-rewarding
4. Self-punishment
5. Self-cueing
Natural Reward Strategies - Answers Types of compensation designed to make aspects of a
task or activity more enjoyable by building in certain features, or by reshaping perceptions to
focus on the most positive aspects of the task and the value it holds
Self-cueing - Answers The process of prompting that acts as a reminder of desired goals, and
keeps your attention on what you are trying to achieve
Self-goal setting - Answers the process of setting individual goals for ourselves
Self-observation - Answers A process that raises our awareness of how, when, and why we
behave the way we do in certain circumstances
Self-punishment - Answers A process that allows us to examine our mistakes before making a
conscious effort to repeat them.
Self-reward - Answers A process that involves compensating ourselves when we achieve our
goals. These rewards can be tangible or intangible
Constructive thought patterns - Answers Models to help us to form positive and productive
ways of thinking that can benefit our performance
Improvisation - Answers The art or act of making, inventing, or arranging offhand, without
advance planning
Entrepreneurial Self-efficacy - Answers The belief that entrepreneurs have in their own ability to