Essays on Entrepreneurship

The innovator’s DNA Summary This book focused directly on individual creativity in the business world and was based on a study of business innovators. The goal of the eight-year collaborative study was to put innovative entrepreneurs under a microscope and attempt to determine how they …

Lush green gardens, complacent weather, vintage coffee houses like Koshy’s are some of the key things that are usually tagged along with Bangalore. However, over the last few years, the term startups has also become synonymous with Bangalore. Bangalore or rather Karnataka has been showered …

Rocky LU and John Wong, two friends who wanted to build a new Internet venture together, found an interesting concept in Amsterdam that they wanted to import in North America: it was a platform based on scrounging where fans could help their favorite musicians by …

Entrepreneurs are energizers who take risks, provide jobs, introduce innovations, and spa rk economic growth. .. Let’s first put aside what they have done. We just examine what they really are? What the characteristics of this breed of people? What makes them being so distinctive? …

Since welfare programs started in the 60s, a reoccurring pattern has been seen in more cases than one. Fraudulent activity and taking advantage of the system has been happening for way too long in our society. A simple drug test should be administered to welfare …

Griffin “Griff” Kubik is holding a dog leash, his 3-year-old fingers wrapped around the vinyl cord as a terrier sniffs the grass near his feet. It might not look like it to passersby in the park, but the duo are on the clock: They’re on …

When a funding crunch prevails, going the bootstrapped way is the best modus operandi suggested by industry experts. Bootstrapping comes with its own set of challenges for entrepreneurs.  Bootstrapped pioneer like founder Sridhar Vembu says that “money always comes with strings attached.” This Bengaluru-based startup …

I researched the entrepreneurial story of giftzip. com. This is about Giftzip. com by Sam Hogg who is the founder. He took MBA course from Michigan State University. When he took the courses he and friend thought about waste and discarded plastic gift card and …

One question many of us have sometimes when it comes to whether or not to go to college is, “Do we really need a college degree to be successful?” The answer to this question is really up to the person deciding on whether or not to …

Introduction There was a time when only a few companies use to sell either similar or same products or services in any particular market. The demands of potential customers were rarely sophisticated and the product life cycles were relatively long. This was true for most …

The East Orchids is an orchid farm in the campus grounds of the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. It was formally opened on May 31, 1989, by Mr. and Mrs. Max Prieto. East Orchids sold both cut flowers and plants. As a …

There has been a lot of controversy over the characterization of the global economy. According to Wallerstein , the timeline after 1945 till today represents the economic cycle which has both the upward and downward swing. The world economy was expanding during 1945 to 1967-73. …

This document defines the managerial incompetence and an work place stress, as analysed by (GLG Expert Contributor), we can detect some habits of incompetent managers, such as; The cheater: lives for every opportunity to stick it to “the man”; it’s their way to get back …

hosted a Demo Day for entrepreneurs, part of its Accelerator program on May 25, 2016. The event showcased projects of 19 teams from across sectors such as health, construction, energy, and others. Held at Qatar National Convention Centre, the Demo Day was attended by a …

The humanistic aspect of an entrepreneurial organization in today’s business world continues to draw attention as more research is conducted in respect to entrepreneurial behavior. In general definition, humanistic leadership is the ability of a manager or management to view people as more than organizational …

All these years Canada expanded into a well-built country. Canada has participated in many battles throughout the world and this has changed how Canada was seen. The first defining moment was the battle of Ypres, where Canadian soldiers were the victims of the first gas …

Pitch Day. Your Big Day.It's tomorrow and you are getting the nervous jitters.The advice from all sources is pouring in. Some are even opposite to each other. What do you do?As a startup mentor and a pitch day participant, I have seen many startups break …

Moving on to the second part of the question looking at Storey’s , “Three Component Model” and how useful it is in identifying the key characteristics of successful growth businesses. Most of the small businesses do not grow beyond their classification as a micro firm, …

We’ve all been there. We wake up, prepared to start our day with intention and focus. We know our goals and are ready to take action. A quick glance in our news feed suddenly reveals the latest list-building techniques, a new way to multiply our …

The strong, influential, and ambitious personality of adventurer and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson radiates throughout each of our lives. (Richard Branson, 1999) Richard Branson was born July 18th, 1950, in Surrey, England. He struggled in school and eventually dropped out at the age of 16. …

Everybody knows at least one person who is often complaining about their problems. It seems like the world is completely against this person, and despite their best efforts, the world will continue to hold them back.There’s a good chance that your friend is just complaining …

Rags-to-riches stories aren't circulated simply to generate publicity for the people involved: They have the power to help inspire entrepreneurs around the world. Entrepreneurs like you.Related: Such stories can also help you discover how people in your industry, or any industry, became successes, and how you, like them, need not start out with …

Question: What is entrepreneurship? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples from your home country. Nowadays, entrepreneurship places an important determinant of development in the society and regarded as the “rock stars” in the business world. According to Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), entrepreneurship is defined as: …

Michael E. Gerber explains in his book The E-Myth Revisited his concept of why small businesses don’t work. Something he calls the E-Myth or the entrepreneurial myth is the assumption that anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur. An aspiring business person can have …

In the spirit of full disclosure, I must admit that I walked into my interview with with a view to somehow rile them up- please note that this was not because I had a personal vendetta against them, but more because I wanted to see …

Managers and leaders have many different qualities but there are definite strengths and weaknesses of both. Leaders are good at stirring people’s emotions, taking them in new directions; both good and bad, raising their expectations and leaders tend to suffer from neuroses and have a …

Project Shakti case questions With the advantages and benefits HLL attained from the market strategy in competing with the other FMCG companies in urban area while facing the intense situations of shrinking market shares brought by its rivals emulating the market strategy, HLL experienced a …

Building on the theory of planned behaviour, an ex-ante and ex-post study was used to measure the impacts of elected and mandatory entrepreneurship instruction plans ( EEPs ) on pupils ‘ entrepreneurial purpose and designation of chances. Datas were collected by questionnaire from a sample …

She was very passionate about her ideas, but still was wary about the risks. Therefore, she decided to try to calculate the risk involved in starting her own clothing store. She realised she would need the equivalent around £10000 to start up the business. This …

Look at the headlines of big business sales likesale to Facebook last week and you know that 2014 is a time of unprecedented opportunity. You have access to nearly everything around the globe thanks to the beauty and speed of technology and you can learn …