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CONCEPT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship is that ability in which an individual tries to find the opportunity, take
risk and avail these opportunities.
Who are Entrepreneurs?
People have more entrepreneurial abilities who:
Have aspiration
Have more practical strategies to be implement
Have the vision
Understanding the environment
Being visionary and flexible
Creating management options
Encourage teamwork while employing a multi‐disciplined approach
Encouraging open discussion
6. Building a coalition of supporters.
Characteristics of Entrepreneurs
Personal Interest
This personal interest can be of two common types:
Interest for their own personality development
Interest of their financial growth at market place
Customer Relationship building
There can be two types of customer relation ship building as under:
Transactional Marketing
This type of marketing is based on only one transaction, just to get the
financials & provide products in return to customers. (Its some how a
traditional approach of customer relationship management)
Relationship Marketing
This type of marketing based on long term service provision for the
customer, to get order once from your customer, fulfill that order in best
possible manners, provide after sales services in order to retain that
customer for longer period of time (it is based on modern customer
relationship management techniques)
Entrepreneurs strongly follow the second type of relationship building with this
customer to get long run benefit in order to enhance their business. Simple E.g. can of of
Doctors in a specific community, Mechanics, Hair dresser etc.
Desire to establish own business
Some persons have strong & dominant personality traits & they want to establish
their own business instead of working under supervision of any one else so this leads
them towards entrepreneurship establishment. They have strong decision making
power & risk taking ability which helps them a lot to be an entrepreneur.
Need of control
Some people want them to be involved in every decision making of their business
prospects so this aspect leads them be an entrepreneur.
Ability to deal with uncertainties
Some persons are daring enough in their professional attitude; they feel they can
easily deal with uncertainties while designing best strategies for crunch situations so
they move for entrepreneurship.
BUSINESS PLAN FOR ENTREPRENEURS
Business plan is a written document which contains the objectives of the business and
the ways to achieve these objectives.
A good business plan must be developed in order to exploit the opportunity defined. A
good business plan is important in developing the opportunity and in determining the
resources required, obtaining those resources and successfully managing the venture.
The term business plan is made of two words “business” and “plan”. By understanding
each we will try to arrive at some usable definition of business plan
Business: “Any economic activity undertaken on regular basis to earn profit by
combining resources and delivering value to society/market in response of
whose unmet need it is started and run”.
Plan: “Simply it is the product or result of planning or it can be defined as it is a
document or piece of thought which answers the basic questions of planning”.
If plan is so then what is planning?
Situations for Entrepreneurial business
There are two situations:
Buying a business
Starting from the scratch
Most of the entrepreneurs always like to start their business right from scratch &
develop their own strategies to run the business so our discussion will move around
those entrepreneurs who start their businesses from scratch.
COMPONENTS OF BUSINESS PLAN
Since every business organization either small medium or large always have business
plan so same is true for entrepreneurial business as well. Basic theme of business plans
is always “ways to go & how to go”. All areas of SWOT analysis are also covered in the
business plan.
Objectives of the business
The basic purpose of any business plan is to answer following questions:
Name of the business
Name should indicate the type of business
Name should be simple
Uniqueness of name
Location of the business
Legal considerations
Avoid the names not encouraged by the law. e.g. National Heroes, religious
personalities etc.
Marketing Component of the business
This part of business plan covers following aspects:
Who will be the target customers for those products
Where are they located?
What would customers like to pay for the product or service?
What are the benefits, the customers are expecting from the product or
service?
What type of products & services we are going to offer
What will be the basis for targeting the customers (age, gender,
educational status, social classes & behavioral aspects)
Analysis of competitors:
One important consideration here is competitors’ analysis, while clarifying
following in the business plan.
What is the nature of competition in the market?
Who are the competitors of the business?
How product of the business is different from product of the
competitors?
Analysis of Promotional Activities
How will the message of the business be promoted in the general public?
How will the business be launched?
Financial Analysis
What will be the investment of the business and how much should be
borrowed?
What are going to be expected revenues in a given period of time?
What would be the expected expenses of the business in a given period
of time?
What would be net income or net profit in a given period of time?
Is the business feasible or not?
Administrative Rights & provisions
What would be the structure to handle the business?