Abstract:
This article analyses the entrepreneurship characteristics in the development of the microbusiness
enterprises in Kinondoni district. The main argument in this study is that despite the fact that
entrepreneurship knowledge that has been provided formally and informally country wide, and
the fact that, majority of the citizens depended on entrepreneurship for income generation; most
of the micro-business enterprises (MBEs) did not raise their capital size. The study tried to look
on entrepreneurs’ development basing on the development of their entrepreneurial activities
which became stunted for a number of years. The literature review clang on the discovery and
creation theory of entrepreneurship, which emphasized on skills, attitudes and values to be the key
success indicators in the entrepreneurship. The study adopted the case study design, involving 152
respondents in the sample. Primary and secondary data were collected and analyzed by using SPSS.
Findings revealed that micro-entrepreneurship activities failed to develop because entrepreneurs
did not have appropriate characteristics. This study therefore recommends that the government and
others interested in the micro-entrepreneurship should disseminate clearly the entrepreneurship
characteristics to the micro-entrepreneurs.
