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As the organization grows, managerial skills emerge out of entrepreneurial skills.

False

Essentially customer needs do not change, therefore you need to identify them and maintain focus.

False

Managers should constantly develop the firm's entrepreneurial capability.

True

The opportunity domain is one of the four driving forces in the growth stages of any firm.

True

A typical acquisition gives the owner 50% in cash and 50% in the acquiring company's stock

False

It is always best to appoint a CEO from the employees who were with the company from the very beginning

False

Businesses with less risk and less complexity are the most wanted candidates for acquisitions.

False

At the core of the growth model lays execution.

True

Stockholders have the largest impact on a firm's growth potential

False

During the early growth, the entrepreneur needs to focus on the company's strategy

True

Execution has the most direct link to profits

True

The most critical first task in transitioning a business beyond the startup stage is to sustain an entrepreneurial organization.

False

Managing cash is one of the key objectives of a control system

True

You should try to implement a complex system of control from the early stages of growth

False

Rapidly growing administrative and selling expenditures are often appropriate

True

Performance measures in an early-stage company are designed more for helping in entrepreneurial decision-making than for evaluating current performance

True

Performance measures for a growing firm should be simple and inexpensive to track

True

The Cash Cycle shows the relationship between three key metrics: days in payables, assets turnover, and days sales are outstanding

False

It is possible to have a negative cash conversion period

True

Diversifying opportunities in early stages of the company generates better results than crafting only one

False

The company should be driven only by opportunities that leverage current capabilities

False

Bootstrapping policy should not be discontinued once the company is successful

True

Key people in the organization are hired professional managers

False

The best management team consists of both internally promoted and externally hired people

True

As the company grows, bureaucracy has to be increasingly instilled to help coordinate different departments

False

Well run companies that manage cash well are likely to be offered more favorable types and terms of funding.

True

Tracking performance is necessary to support quality decision making.

True

It will often be acceptable for an entrepreneur to find him/herself routinely doing portions of other people's jobs during growth.

False

The majority of your performance tracking efforts should be focused on your competition during your initial growth stages.

False

Tracked items and metrics should be focused on supporting specifically anticipated decisions to the greatest extent possible.

True

What does entrepreneurship begin with?
U) Leadership.
V) A loan.
W) Venture capital.
X) Opportunity.
Y) A management team

Opportunity

What is the least likely to lead to a failure in growth management?
A) Having limited time and resources to spend on organization building
B) Spending too much time on day-to-day operations
C) Chasing many opportunities
D) Spending time on planning
E) Not having a strong management team

Spending time on planning

What skills become increasingly important at later stages of development for a company?
Z) Marketing
AA) Managerial
BB) Technical
CC) Entrepreneurial
DD) Opportunity identification

Managerial

Which of the following is not a part of the driving forces in the growth stages?
Z) Leadership
AA) The opportunity domain
BB) Resources and capabilities
CC) Execution
DD) The entrepreneur

The entrepreneur

What is NOT an option an entrepreneur must consider beyond startup?
Z) Leaving the venture
AA) Selling the venture
BB) Maintaining the venture
CC) Growing the venture
DD) All of them are options

Leaving the venture

According to the chapter, 50% of businesses started today will not exist in how many years?
Z) 2
AA) 3
BB) 5
CC) 6
DD) 8

8

What fraction of firms started today, according to the chapter, will still be growing and profitable in eight years?
U) 1/5
V) 1/6
W) 1/7
X) 1/8
Y) 1/9

1/7

In a typical acquisition deal, what portion of the selling price does the entrepreneur receive in cash?
U) 1/2 of the price.
V) 1/3 of the price.
W) 1/4 of the price.
X) 1/5 of the price.
Y) 1/6 of the price.

1/3 of the price

What option does the entrepreneur have if he or she decides to maintain a business?
U) Become an entrepreneurial leader
V) Take alternate position in the firm
W) Become a manager
X) Seek other employment
Y) None of the above

Become a manager

What is the core of the growth model?
Z) Leadership
AA) Resources and capabilities
BB) The opportunity domain
CC) The entrepreneur
DD) Execution

Execution

Who or what has the largest impact on a firm's growth potential?
Z) Stakeholders
AA) Uncertainty
BB) Environmental conditions
CC) Technology changes
DD) Competitors

Stakeholders

What should an entrepreneur focus on during early growth?
U) Expansion
V) Strategy
W) Operations
X) Accounting
Y) Networking

Strategy

The chapter warns that which of the following can lead to poor coordination between different activities within the company?
Z) Overdue collections
AA) Inventory outages
BB) Uncontrolled growth
CC) Diminishing cash flows
DD) None of the above

Uncontrolled growth

Which of the following is not mentioned in the chapter as a key objective for a control system?
Z) To create culture
AA) To institute control
BB) To manage cash
CC) To track performance
DD) All of the above are mentioned

To create culture

An effective control system includes all of following except:
Z) Account payables policies
AA) Accounts receivables and collections policies
BB) Assessment of performance and expenditures
CC) An inventory management system
DD) A risk-assessment ratios tracking

A risk-assessment ratios tracking

After tracking key metrics in your company's performance, what should alert you that it may be time to consider making adjustments in your policies?
Z) If your metrics are below your expectations.
AA) If the changes in your company are not the result of changes in your policies.
BB) If the marketing expenditures are hard to predict.
CC) If your metrics require in-depth analysis.
DD) If receivables collection period is more than 30 days.

If the changes in your company are not the result of changes in your policies

What does cash cycle ratio show?
Z) Number of dollars available to pay your short-term liabilities.
AA) How quickly you get your receivables paid.
BB) Time between purchase of supplies and collection of accounts receivable generated in the sale of a product.
CC) How quickly you sell and replace your inventory over a period.
DD) Degree to which a company is using borrowed money.

Time between purchase of supplies and collection of accounts receivable generated in the sale of a product

A positive cash conversion period means that:
Z) You have an inefficient receivables control system
AA) You are getting cash in before you deliver products/services
BB) You have a very efficient receivables control system
CC) You are receiving cash after you deliver products/services
DD) Customers pay you before you provide them products/services

You are receiving cash after you deliver products/services

A series of steps showing the activities and entities that we need to coordinate in order for the company to execute its product or service is called:
Z) Customer value delivery
AA) Value chain
BB) STEP
CC) Customer value proposition
DD) Attributes model

Value chain

What do customers usually want the company to do with its products?
Z) To improve the products they know best.
AA) To introduce new products.
BB) To change brand names of existing products.
CC) To produce products inside the country.
DD) None of the above.

To improve the products they know best

Which of the following is not a source of financing for early growth?
Z) Angel investors
AA) Founder loans
BB) Investment from key management
CC) Equipment leases
DD) All of them are sources

All of them are sources

What could identification of your firm's range of value chain activities help you to detect?
Z) New markets.
AA) Legal liabilities.
BB) Ways to shift your core business.
CC) Resource draining side projects.
DD) All of the above.

Resources draining side projects

What best characterizes an entrepreneur?
Z) Resource driven
AA) Maintains consistency and predictability
BB) Implements the business
CC) Opportunity driven
DD) Enhances efficiency of organization

Opportunity driven

What purpose should the board of directors serve as a company professionalizes?
Z) Mentorship.
AA) Strategic.
BB) Operating.
CC) Credit lending.
DD) To represent suppliers.

Strategic

According to the Driving Forces of Growth Model, opportunity domain interacts with which of the following?
U) Stakeholders
V) Environmental conditions
W) Profitability
X) Coordination
Y) Organizational capabilities

Organizational capabilities

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of an effective performance tracking system?
A) Determines where, when, and how to measure a key item, and who is responsible for measuring it.
B) Metrics tied to a decision (should be nearly all metrics) are assigned the latest time before which the measure will be relevant to making the decision.
C) The system is exhaustive of all possible metrics for a given questions.
D) All of the above.

The system is exhaustive of all possible metrics for a given questions

Which of the following are signs that your venture may be growing too fast?
A) The percentage of your cash flows from operations is declining against your cash flows from financing.
B) Profit margins are shrinking as sales are rising.
C) Customer complaints are declining while sales are rising.
D) A & B only
E) B & C only

A & B only, The percentage of your cash flows from operations is declining against your cash flows from financing, Profit margins are shrinking as sales are rising

Which of the following may be a common error when an entrepreneur tries to transition to an entrepreneurial leader (pick one).
A) Leads the venture through changes in both the organization and the competitive environment.
B) Sets a vision and empowers others to carry it out.
C) Avoids hiring managers whose domain experience exceeds their own.
D) Leverages the core business to grow in-line with critical capabilities.
E) All of the above

Avoids hiring managers whose domain experience exceeds their own

Which of the following is NOT an important factor is recruiting a board of directors?
A) Mitigating the risk of personal biases in decision making.
B) Whether or not the board member is a stakeholder with the ability to exert control over the firm.
C) A board members experience as an entrepreneur
D) The board members likely willingness to join the company as a senior manager in the future.

The board members likely willingness to join the company as a senior manager in the future

Which of the following is a sign that an entrepreneur is delegating well.
A) You are making more decisions, but accomplishing less
B) People are working hard, but critical mistakes are increasing
C) Action isn't taken without the entrepreneurs' involvement
D) Cross talk commonly solves problems before they are brought to the attention of the entrepreneur.

Cross talk commonly solves problems before they are brought to the attention of the entrepreneur

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