An Entrepreneur is a person who combines all the factors of poduction and start up a new business. Acording to Nieuwenhuizen C and Oothizen TFJ (2012:47) an Entrepreneur identify an opportunity or a gap in the market and evaluates the risk related to the establishent of the business and is prepared to take the associated risk to start the business in the quest of making profit. The entreprenuer has the ability to obtain the resources to establish and grow a business.
They futher continue to argue that an entrepreneur is always on the saerch for new opportunities in both the new and existing markets. This people do not rest since they are always thinking of new ways of doing things.
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