2. Entrepreneurship: Act of being an entrepreneur - wikipedia
defines entrepreneur as one who undertakes innovations,
finance and business acumen in an effort to transform
innovations into economic goods
Entrepreneurs
3. Skills
Entrepreneurial skills
Risk-seeking
Innovation
Change-orientation
Persistence
Visionary
Technical skills
Domain specific hard skills
Communication
Co-ordinating in team
Interpersonal relations
Biz Management skills
Planning, formulating
Goals, decision-making,
motivating, marketing,
accounting, negotiation
4. How It Goes
â˘For 'some' reason you think of starting on your
own
â˘You get a chance to work on it
â˘You start
â˘You fail and succeed iteratively
â˘You raise funding [Angel/Venture Capital]
â˘You scale
â˘You sale or you are all set for an IPO
9. Online forums
â˘NASCOM Emerge Community
â˘National Entrepreneurship Network
â˘Pluggd.in
â˘iamstarting â interviews with founders
â˘TechCrunch
â˘open Coffee clubs / POCC
â˘Paul Graham Essays (Y Combinator)
10. Offline Stuff
â˘Magazines : Entrepreneur, DARE, Udyojak
(Marathi)
â˘Books: Many out there, For starters- books by
Rashmi Bansal
Read anything and every thing that interests
you : An entrepreneur always looks for an
opportunity in everything, almost everything!
11. Events
â˘Startup saturday
â˘Proto.in
â˘StartUp city
â˘iWeekend
â˘Startup Garage, pune
â˘NASSCOM Emerge
â˘TiE â The Indus Entrepreneurs
â˘Tata Jagriti Yatra
13. Government Initiatives
â˘National Science & Technology
Entrepreneurship Development Board
(NSTEDB), DST India
â˘Technology Development Board (TDB), DST
India
â˘Incubators at IIMA, IITB, NCL Pune and many
more by TDB
â˘National Innovation Foundation â Competitions,
Joint Product Development, ideas, Patenting
14. Why is this right time to start
â˘for technology startups â opensource,
digitisation, user maturity, funding
â˘for non tech startups â low cost processing with
automation, focus on core business,
consumerism and growing incomes, awareness
about the standard of living, funding