1. Entrepreneur
BE YOUR OWN BOSS
Entrepreneurship is creating wealth for
self, employment and business
opportunities for others. In common
parlance, entrepreneurship means the
business of organizing, managing and
assuming the risk of an enterprise in
addition to making money.
Entrepreneurship is slated to occupy a
centre-stage in the new millennium.
Entrepreneurship is not restricted great
empires like the TATA, Reliance, Sahara,
Godrej, Wipro or an Infosys, or setting up companies or manufacturing units. In our day-to-day walk
of life there is a whole galore of avenues. Entrepreneurs are created and not born. Thus this results in
identifying an individual as an entrepreneur who runs a food-stall, pan-beedi shop, beauty parlour,
crèche, tif�n services, cookery class, hobby class [mehendi, candle making, soft toys], or even
marking oneself as a tailor, tuition teacher, yoga teacher and so on. Entrepreneurship also
encompasses the gamut of Consultation services like feng-shui, vaastu, tarot card, investments, real
estates and marriages. One can see people as entrepreneurs in areas of direct marketing, insurance
agency, �ower arrangements, stock market, and other �nancial products/ services. With the advent
of technology and globalization a whole new range of activities have evolved like data entry, web-
designing, house cleaning services, party organizer, translation services, delivering tickets [movies,
transport], manning fax/photocopy machine and the list goes endless.
As the avenues go endless so is the list of successful entrepreneurs, a few to name like Maya
Paranjpe [Beauty Education, Training & services], Sujatha Khanna [Coaching], Dilip Chabbria [Car
Design], Manish Malhotra [Fashion Designer], Rajendra Pawar [NIIT Ltd.], Poonam Soni [Jewellery
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2. Design], Mahindra Vichare [ Vichare Courier], Shantanurao Laxmanrao Kirloskar [Kirloskar Group],
and so on.
Educational Quali�cation:
As mentioned entrepreneurship engulfs a huge list of avenues that can are explored. Educational
quali�cation would entirely depend on the type of work. People have proved themselves even with
minimum educational quali�cation.
However in today’s competitive world basic Graduation is of utmost importance [just to keep as a
back-up in case if things do not work out and the time comes to explore job avenues] and if one can
enhance oneself by taking management education would always be bene�cial.
This brings forth the necessary qualities to be a
successful Entrepreneur:
• Business knowledge
• Communication skills
• Con�dence
• Creativity
• Coordination
• Decision-making capacity
• Goal setting
• Hard work
• Having a positive attitude
• Having a strong sense of commitment
• High energy levels to cope with intense
demands of business
• Innovation
• Management of resources as well as people
• Patience
• Perceiving failure as a stepping-stone to success.
• Perseverance
• Problem-solving skills
• Risk-taking
• Self-determination
• Strong need to achieve and seek personal accomplishments
• Taking initiative
Entrepreneurs set economies in motion. Entrepreneurial opportunities big and small are
innumerable. Everything lies in recognizing the entrepreneur in you, seizing opportunities and
working towards a successful enterprise.
Remember - Entrepreneurship is like riding a cycle- you are an entrepreneur as long as you keep
pedaling
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