1. Introduction
Entrepreneurship can be described as “The capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit. The most obvious example of entrepreneurship is the starting of new businesses.”(businessdictionary.com, 2014)
In today’s world technology has become a part of everyday living for almost everyone in the world. Technology is always adapting and changing to fit in with the modern way of living.
The high tech business idea that I have will enable me to develop a company that can and will produce a high growth business. The concept of the idea is a book marker that lights up to help improve reading at night. The book marker lighting up works by having LED lights which illuminate and can be used to help you find a page or just to read at night in general. This is done by having a circuit fitted onto the book markers on the inside and pressing a small button on the book marker will emit the light.
“There is so much evidence to prove that literacy and peoples life chances go hand in hand. A person with poor literacy skills is more likely to live in a household that’s non-working and live in overcrowded conditions. However literacy skills and reading can break the rampant cycle of being disadvantaged and deprived.” (The reading agency, 2014)
The idea is not only financially benefiting but also socially benefiting to the community. The book marker can be designed so that it suits all audiences. Designs for children include cartoon characters and superheroes, for teenagers we have sports and music. For the older generation we have main attractions, figures from history and country flags.
2. High Growth Businesses
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Invest on our idea to a new business we need to consider what kind business we try to establish.
I previously have mentioned, in prior reflection essays, just how important literacy is for a person’s future. Notice how I didn’t say “student’s” future? Literacy fluency effects several aspects of life, not only academically speaking. Ultimately, the literacy level of a child can directly affect their future as an adult. The whole point of Torgesen’s article “Catch Them Before They Fall” is about preventing students with literacy deficits from slipping through the cracks without the best possible, research-based interventions.
“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man,
The Open University (2010) ‘Part 1: What is Literacy? What are Literacy Difficulties’, E801 Difficulties in Literacy Development Study Guide Milton Keynes, The Open University, p.8.
Deborah Brandt (1998) wrote “Sponsors of Literacy”, a journal where she explained her findings of the research she has done on how different people across the nation learned to read and write, born between 1900, and 1980 (p. 167). She interviewed many people that had varying forms of their literacy skills, whether it was from being poor, being rich, or just being in the wrong spot at the wrong time.
Literacy, or the capability to comprehend, translate, utilize, make, process, assess, and speak information connected with fluctuating settings and displayed in differing organizations, assumes an essential part in molding a young's persons trajectory in life. The ability to read speaks to a key factor of scholarly, social, and financial success (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998). These abilities likewise speak to a fundamental segment to having a satisfying life and turning into an effective worker and overall person (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1999). Interestingly, recent studies have demonstrated that low reading skills lead to critical hindrances in monetary and social achievement. As stated by the National Center for Education Statistics, adults with lower levels of reading skills and literacy have a lower average salary. Another study evaluated that 17 to 18 percent of adults with "below average" literacy aptitudes earned less than $300 a week, though just 3 to 6 percent of adults with "proficient" reading abilities earned less than $300 a week (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998).
Research shows there is a direct correlation between learning abilities and poverty. Children that live in poverty risk having lower learning abilities compared to a more privileged child. According to Carol Lynn Mithers, “Children from poor homes suffer an especially high level of reading problems.” (Mithers). Illiteracy can cause poverty because people that are illiterate earn less money. Mithers also says that “It’s not that poverty causes illiteracy, but illiteracy often make people poor: By some estimates, workers with little or no reading ability earn roughly a third as much as the most
In this day and age, the world of technology is rapidly expanding with new inventions
Technological advances rule today’s modern world, from iPods to smart phones millions of people around the world rely on technology to help them function in their daily lives. Accompanied with internet we quite literally ...
waste on an idea. There is a quite a gap in the investors circle vs. the emerging SMES. The skepticism lies
Entrepreneurship incorporates unconstrained imagination and a readiness to settle on choices without strong information. The entrepreneur may be driven by a need to make something new or assemble something unmistakable. As new ventures have low achievement rates, the business person should have impressive tirelessness. Because of this, the entrepreneur may have the best risk of achievement by concentrating on a business sector corner either too little or too new to have been commanded by built up organizations.
devices have become a huge part of everyday life. Not only is technology affecting every
Learning to read and write is a basic skill that is used in everyday life and to a point where it is almost hard to function without. People read many things throughout the day; everything from a menu to the traffic signs along the side of the road. While it is possible to live without being able to read and write, it is not possible to be successful. Better literacy skills will be used to not only do well in school but also to get well-paying jobs that lead to a good life. According to L. A. Curtis these types of programs, empowering the youth, are “more successful in reducing crime than traditional community crime prevention.” (2)...
An entrepreneur is someone with the capacity to lead a business to success and is willing to take the risks in order to accomplish their goals. (Dollonger, 2002). Starting a new business is an example of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are very important in order for any business to succeed, however, only some entrepreneurs will succeed in life. Here are some of the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs.