Entrepreneurship Case Study - Bill Gates.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT


        CONTENTS:

                        1.        INTRODUCTION                                                3

                        2.        BIOGRAPHY AND GENERAL INFORMATION                        4

                        3.        BUSINESS AND PERSONAL SURVIVAL                        5

                        4.        CHARACTERISTICS                                                7

                                        ENTREPRENEURSHIP                                        8

                                        INTELLIGENCE                                                8

                                        VISIONARY                                                9

                                        PASSION                                                9

                                        INNOVATION                                                9

                                        RISK TAKING                                                10

                                        LEARNER                                                10

                                        CRITICISM                                                10

                                        HARD WORK                                                11

                                        CONFIDENCE                                                11

                                        LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL SKILLS                12

                        5.        CONCLUSION                                                        13

                        6.        REFERENCE                                                        14

        


ENTREPRENURSHIP AND SMALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE

"It's fine to celebrate success

but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

INTRODUCTION:

                The entrepreneur I have chosen is legendary business figure Bill Gates. William Henry Gates III as known as Bill Gates is an American businessman, investor, author, philanthropist and last but not least an entrepreneur.  

                Bill Gates is a CEO and a chairman of the software company "Microsoft". He is best known as an entrepreneur in personal computer area and he is one of the wealthiest people in the world. The main reason that Bill Gates has a big influence in the computer industry is because he was the inventor of Microsoft.


        PROFILE AND GENERAL INFORMATION

                William Gates was born on 28th of October, 1955. By seventh grade he had big interests in personal computers and had a dream to become professor. When Bill Gates and his school mate Paul Allen were studying in high school, Mother's Club of Lakeside School collected money to buy computer for school's students. This event has changed a life of Bill Gates. He and Allen were fascinated with programming process and were spending all of the time on the computer writing programs for various purposes.

                Gates and Allen stepped into the world of entrepreneurship at the age of 15. They wrote a program to regulate traffic and formed a company to spread this software. On this project with the name "Traf-O-Data" they have earned 20.000 US dollars. Gates has named his partnership "Micro-soft".

                In 1990 "Microsoft" released its first version of Windows. This was a breakthrough in operating software as text interfaces were changed by graphical interfaces. It soon became a best seller and was able to capture the majority of the operating system market share.

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                Bill Gates and his wife Melinda French have 3 children. With his wife Bill Gates formed "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation". Gates has sought to focus on global issues ignored by the government; he also expressed an interest in improving the standards of public school education in the US. Gates and his wife are one of the most generous philanthropists in America.

        


BUSINESS AND PERSONAL SURVIVAL

        The first steps of "Microsoft" were full of danger and uncertainty. Bill Gates and Allen moved to Albuquerque and have cast their lot with MITS, startup company, that went bankrupt few years ...

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