WorksheetsAdv. Entrepreneurship Final Study Guide 2018
Total questions: 82
Worksheet time: 42mins
A company’s sale of their product is an example of cost structure
True
False
Instagram’s coding and engineering of the application to allow photos to be edited by users is an example of cost structure
True
False
A company’s sale of their product is an example of revenue streams
True
False
An example of a channel for Bucketfeet would be various retail stores.
True
False
An example of a channel for Instagram would be through the Today Show
True
False
An example of a customer relationship for a company would be through social media
True
False
An example of a customer relationship for a company would be through various retail stores
True
False
The process of dividing an audience into smaller groups based on similar characteristics is called customer segments
True
False
The formula for Coca Cola is considered a utility patent.
True
False
Once disclosed by the owner, a trade secret is free to be copied.
True
False
Trademarks can be lost if they become generic
True
False
Under US law, a copyright owner can sue someone for infringement only after the work is registered with the Copyright Office.
True
False
A patent will NOT be issued if the product has been on sale for more than a year before the application is filed.
True
False
The notes that you take in class are automatically considered copyrighted.
True
False
Expenses are entered in which category of the BMC?
Cost structure
Problem
Revenue
Solution
When completing the cost structure section of the BMC, which of the following would you add into it?
Anticipate profit margins
Income per unit
Anticipated revenue
Expenses needed to build your product
Which of the following would be added to the Revenue Streams on the BMC?
Investment money
Payment from customers
Staff salaries
Cost of goods sold
The way a customer can purchase or gain access to a product/service falls into which section of the business model canvas?
Customer Relationships
Channels
Solution
Unique Value Proposition
Which of the following are channels?
The online shop of the company’s product
The company’s TV ad
The company’s Facebook ad
A commercial about the product
They way a customer becomes exposed to a product/service would fall into which section of the business model canvas?
Unique Value Proposition
Channels
Solution
Customer Relationships
What data a company will collect and measure to determine success would fall into which section of the business model canvas?
Cost Structure
Key Metrics
Revenue Streams
Unique Value Proposition
Which of the following is a direct competitor to Starbucks?
Cub Foods
Gas station mini mart (Casey’s)
Higher Grounds
McDonald’s
The best way to stand out from your competitors and get noticed by your customers is by having which of the following?
A solution that has already been created
A problem you can’t solve
Many solutions to their problem
A unique value proposition
Which of the following best describes a Unique Value Proposition?
Ways your product or service is different from other companies
Key features or benefits your business has for your employees
Key features or benefits your product or service that influence why customers choose you over a competitor
Ways your product or service is similar to other companies
When deciding WHO has the problem that you identified, you would be describing the
Customer Segment
Channels
Customer Relationship
Solution
A company who sells to the high school market redefines a subgroup of their customers as those who like theater and are in afterschool clubs that involve improv comedy. What has this company identified?
An Early Adopter
A Customer Solution
A Customer Persona
A Unique Value Proposition
What is a person or business who will use your product first before most others do called?
Target market
Customer personas
Customer Segments
Early Adopters
What is the difference between a user and a buyer?
Buyers and users must be the same person
Buyers purchase the product/service while users gain from the benefits provided
Users of a product/service are always the paying customer while buyers gain insight from the user
Users purchase the product/service while users gain from the benefits provided
During the problem interview process, the goal is to determine which of the following?
Do enough people have this problem
What is the competition
Is the problem solvable
Who has the problem
What is the business purpose of a position statement?
Justifies your pricing model
Allows you to sell easier to your customers
Creates a workflow for your solution
Articulates a specific direction for your business; creeates a roadmap for marketing
Which of the following is not included in a positioning statement?
Customer Segment
Product Category
Product / Brand Name
Price
Which of the following are examples of a direct channel for Christie’s Christmas Candles?
www.christiechrismascandles.com
Third party show booth display at Christmas art fair
www.amazon.com
Walgreens
What is the marketing funnel cycle?
Keep, get, and grow customers
Grow, keep, and get customers
Get, keep, and grow customers
Get, grow, and keep customers
What is using loyalty programs, surveys or follow up calls an example of?
Get
Grow
Keep
All of the above
What are upselling, cross-selling, and referrals an example of?
Get
Grow
Keep
All of the above
What are using search, website or social media an example of?
Get
Grow
Keep
All of the above
What is market reach?
The estimated number of potential customers the tactic could reach.
The estimated number of potentials sellers the tactic could reach
The estimated new markets the tactic could reach
The estimated revenue the tactic will bring in
What is Total Addressable Market?
Total number of presales for product to predict total sales.
otal number of subgroups’ frequency of their purchase(s) at the lowest unit price (subgroup x frequency x low price)
Total number of products / services for sale at the average unit price (products x price)
Total number of all the buyers’ frequency of their purchase(s) at the average unit price (buyers x frequency x price)
What is a Serviceable Addressable Market?
An estimated number of how many people HAVE purchased your product/service
An estimated number of how many people WILL purchase your product/service
An estimated number of how many people COULD purchase your product/service
An estimated number of how many people WILL NOT have purchased your product/service
What is revenue?
The amount of money a person or business spends per unit
The amount of money a company brings in
The amount of money spent on making or providing the good/service
The amount of money left over after costs have been paid
What are the costs that are associated with providing your service or creating your product called?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
What are costs used to operate your business called?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
What are costs that are needed to start your business and occur only once?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
What are COGS?
Costs associated with providing service or creating product
Costs associated with creating a new prototype
Costs used to operate your business
Costs used to startup your business and occur only once
You are a company building software for the medical field. What is the cost of the initial development considered?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
You run a jean-making company. What are the costs associated with the fabric considered?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
A company pays monthly insurance costs. What are those costs called?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
Every year, a company hires an accountant to review the books. What is this cost considered?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
A local burger joint pays for the buns, meat, cheese, ketchup, onion and mayonnaise used to make their burger. What are these costs considered?
COGS
SG&A
Revenue
Startup Costs
What is an MVP?
Version of a new product or service that allows for maximum amount of learning about customers with least amount of effort
Version of a new product or service that includes several features in an effort to include as much as possible in the first iteration
Version of a new product or service that is a miniature version of the final product, often used as a demo
Version of new product or service that provides an idea of what the final version looks like in order to gain as much funding support as possible
Scenario: A company has a product idea of fingerless gloves made from microfiber materials for teachers to wear when working at a whiteboard; the gloves allow the writer to erase without having to use a separate tool. Which of the following is an example of an MVP to test the product or service in the above scenario?
Buying a variety of fabric at the local fabric store and making hundreds of pairs to test. Pass them out to teachers to figure out which type of glove they like best.
Buying gloves at the Dollar Store, cutting off the fingers on the gloves, and asking teachers in a school that uses whiteboards to use them
Hiring a local seamstress to build the first batch of high-quality gloves. Sell them to teachers at a high price
Create a presentation of the idea, and pitch it to a glove-maker to see if he will make your orders
Scenario: A company has a product idea of a mobile app that provides real-time notification for bus arrival times at school bus stops. The product’s goal is to reduce outside wait time for riders. Which of the following is an example of a concierge type MVP to test the product or service in the above scenario?
Collecting the names, phone numbers and bus routes for a specific set of bus riders. Following those buses in a car and then texting the rider with 5min notification time of arrival time
Hiring a mobile app development company to create a mock up of their bus tracking app and then asking bus riders if they would buy this application when it become available
Creating a slide presentation and describing the process to potential bus riders, and then collecting their bus routes
Surveying bus riders on their wait times for the routes they ride
What is the main criteria for a website to show up in a search engine’s unpaid search results?
Bold text to catch the attention of your customer
Catchy slogan that align with what your competition is promoting
Interactive graphics and images
Key words that align with what your customers are searching
What is a trade secret?
Anything that creates a business advantage by alignment to competition’s goals
Anything that creates a business advantage when shared with the public
Anything that creates a business advantage by virtue of not being known or accessible by general public
Anything that creates a business advantage when given for free
What is the invention of a new and useful process protected by?
Utility Patent
Copyright
Trade Secret
Design Patent
What patent is needed to protect a mark used to identify and distinguish his or her goods, including a unique product, from those manufactured or sold by others?
Trademark
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trade Secret
What is a liquidity cushion?
the estimation of capital dollars needed for contingencies
the estimation of COGS minus revenue
the calculation of SG&A and COGS
the calculation of known capital dollars needed with contingencies
Which of the following are examples of a direct channel for Nike? Select all that apply
Famous Footwear
A Nike retail store
DWS
www.nike.com
Which of the following can be used to “get” your customers? Select all that apply
website
face-to-face meeting
social media
Which of the following are free marketing tactics? Select all that apply.
Testimonials
Celebrity Endorsements
Radio commercial
Social media presence
Knowing how Google’s search works, which of the following are important to help increase your SEO? Select all that apply.
Pictures on your page should have attributes
Get quality pages - such as news outlets - to link to your website
Terms customers search for should be terms in your headers and on your page
Website should have a site index page
You market size can be determined by which of the following? Select all that apply
Revenue dollars
Units
Customers
Costs
Which of the following are Investors of startups interested in when it comes to market size? Select all that apply.
How the market size is calculated
The final numbers
How you came up with your estimates
Costs
A company can generate revenue from which of the following?
Charging for delivery
Charging for advertising space
Charging for subscription services
Charging a price for the product/service
When designing an MVP to validate a business idea, which of the following criteria are needed?
An estimation of how many dollars needed to create the MVP
An identification of the riskiest assumption in the business model canvas
An explanation of what data will be collected to measure success
An identification of who will manufacture the final product in future iterations
What are the four (4) most critical pieces of information included in an MVP pitch asking for funding to validate a product or service idea? Select all that apply.
What is the problem we are trying to solve?
What is the value/benefit our solution brings?
Who is our solution for?
How you plan to scale?
What does our solution look like or how does it work?
Which of the following are business reasons to have a website for your product or service? Select all that apply.
To build awareness of your business
To cultivate and maintain relationships with customers
To establish lines of communication for potential customers
To ensure you have copyright to your business name
Which of the following are examples of a Marketing tactics? Select all that apply
Attending a trade show
Handing out flyers at an event
Putting flyers up in school or a business
Buying an advertisement in a magazine
Which of the following are answers your marketing plan should answer?
What is your message to customers?
Where do you find customers?
Why should customers buy your product/service?
What is your financial goal?
Which of the following are key characteristics of a successful salesperson? Select all that apply.
Positive attitude
Pushes a customer to make a decision
Anticipates the objectives
Good listener
Which of the following are key characteristics of a successful salesperson? Select all that apply.
Able to explain the financial model of the business
Is prepared for talking about the product or service
Focuses on the data, rather than the customer
Not afraid to “ask for a commitment”
Scenario: George hires Maria, a brilliant engineer, to work for his company. Maria churns out marvelous contributions faster than George can imagine. George wants to legally protect all these contributions, and he knows IP protections can overlap but he has to pick and choose what he protects and how because of cost considerations. Maria creates a confidential glue formula. What IP does is needed?
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
Scenario: George hires Maria, a brilliant engineer, to work for his company. Maria churns out marvelous contributions faster than George can imagine. George wants to legally protect all these contributions, and he knows IP protections can overlap but he has to pick and choose what he protects and how because of cost considerations. Maria creates a new apparatus that staples papers together without using staples. What IP does is needed??
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
Scenario: George hires Maria, a brilliant engineer, to work for his company. Maria churns out marvelous contributions faster than George can imagine. George wants to legally protect all these contributions, and he knows IP protections can overlap but he has to pick and choose what he protects and how because of cost considerations. Maria creates an ornamental design for a clock. What IP does is needed?
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
Scenario: George hires Maria, a brilliant engineer, to work for his company. Maria churns out marvelous contributions faster than George can imagine. George wants to legally protect all these contributions, and he knows IP protections can overlap but he has to pick and choose what he protects and how because of cost considerations. Maria creates a great new logo for the company’s “stapless stapler.” What IP does is needed?
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
Scenario: George hires Maria, a brilliant engineer, to work for his company. Maria churns out marvelous contributions faster than George can imagine. George wants to legally protect all these contributions, and he knows IP protections can overlap but he has to pick and choose what he protects and how because of cost considerations. Maria creates a new software program. What IP does is needed?
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
Scenario: Mary takes a breathtaking photograph of some snow leopards. She wants to post them on her website but fears that a rival photographer might steal them and take the credit. Before she posts them, she should protect it with which form of IP?
Trade Secret
Copyright
Design Patent
Utility Patent
Trademark
An example of a channel for Facebook would the Apple app store
True
False
What is calculating the entire market opportunity for your product/service?
Market Segment
SAM
TAM
Market Share
What is the realistic segment of the market you intend to sell and market your product or service to?
TAM
SAM
SEO
Market Sizing
How is revenue different than profit?
Revenue and Profit are synonymous; they mean the same thing
Revenue is the amount of money brought in, while profit is what money remains after costs have been paid
Profits are used to calculate price, while revenue is used to calculate costs
. Profit is the amount of money brought in, while revenue is what money remains after costs have been paid
What are SG&A?
Costs used to operate your business
Costs associated with creating a new prototype
Costs associated with providing service or creating product
Costs used to startup your business and occur only once
