Week 3 Reading Reflections

Reading Reflection – Chapter 2 Entrepreneurial Mind-Set in Individuals

1. What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations? In the reading this week it discusses entrepreneurial traits one of which is opportunity orientation. One of the traits that I found interesting and wasn’t really aware that a lot of entrepreneur’s had was a need of continuation of identifying opportunities and opportunity orientation. I always thought that once an entrepreneur discovered an idea, opportunity or niche that they stuck with it and didn’t look for anything else.
2. Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you. The one confusing part about the reading was in “The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship” section where it lists the different types of risks and one called “Career Risk” I wish it had more information because it doesn’t really expand on why entrepreneurs would feel this way.
3. If you were able to ask two questions to the author, what would you ask? Why? One question I would ask is why on “The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship” for the list of risks it did not provide a more comprehensive explanation on certain risks and how to avoid them or at least suggest another resource the reader could go to learn more about these types of risks.
4. Was there anything you think the author was wrong about? Where do you disagree with what she or he said? How? Overall I found it to be a very interesting read and I did not find anything that I could disagree with the author on.