Inspired to Succeed in Life

Dr.Prakash K.Vadavadagi
Associate Professor
B.V.V.Sangha’s Institute of Management Studies,
Bagalkot, Vidyagiri, Bagalkot
 ENTRPRENEURS
• The most famous entrepreneurs from India and
world all have the same entrepreneurial spirit.
• These entrepreneurs did not inherit wealth from
their families, or sign million dollar sport
contracts.
• Each of these entrepreneurs started with a dream
in a country that is known for producing
successful entrepreneurs.
• They earned their millions the hard way through
hard work, perseverance, and dedication.
 KFC
• At age 5 his Father died.
• At age 16 he quit school.
• At age 17 he had already lost four jobs.
• At age 18 he got married.
• Between ages 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and
failed.
• He joined the army and washed out there.
• He applied for law school he was rejected.
• He became an insurance sales man and failed again.
• At age 19 he became a father.
• At age 20 his wife left him and took their baby daughter.
• He became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe.
• He failed in an attempt to kidnap his own daughter, and
eventually he convinced his wife to return home.
• At age 65 he retired.
• On the 1st day of retirement he received a cheque from
the Government for $105.
• He felt that the Government was saying that he couldn’t
provide for himself.
• He decided to commit suicide, it wasn’t worth living
anymore; he had failed so much.
• He sat under a tree writing his will, but instead, he wrote
what he would have accomplished with his life. He
realised there was much more that he hadn’t done. There
was one thing he could do better than anyone he knew.
And that was how to cook.
• So he borrowed $87 against his cheque and bought and
fried up some chicken using his recipe, and went door to
door to sell them to his neighbours in Kentucky.
• Remember at age 65 he was ready to commit suicide.
• But at age 88 Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried
Chicken (KFC) Empire was a billionaire.
Kailash Katkar -Founder Quick Heal
• Born in a small village at Rahimatpur in Maharashtra,
Kailash Katkar worked his way to the top to be
chairman and CEO of INR 200 Cr business. He is the
man behind Quickheal technologies Pvt Ltd.
• He started with a job at local radio and calculator
repair shop and later went ahead in 1990 to start his
own calculator repair business.
• In 1993 he started a new venture, CAT computer
services where around that time his younger brother
Sanjay developed a basic model of antivirus software
which helped in solving the biggest problem of
computer maintenance at that time.
• Later in 2007 it was renamed as Quick Heal
Technologies. He achieved all this without any formal
education.
P C Mustafa (Coolie’s Son who Set Up
100 Crore Company with just 25,000 )
• This is the story of a man who failed in Class 6,
but went on to join the Regional Engineering
College (now the National Institute of
Technology), Calicut and the Indian Institute of
Management-Bangalore.
• This is the story of a man who decided to
become an entrepreneur and employ people
from rural India.
• Today, fresh idli and dosa made by P C Mustafa’s
company ID Fresh reaches homes in Bengaluru,
Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad,
Mangaluru and even Dubai.
• Today, we produce around 50,000 kg in our plant.
The total investment must be around Rs 4 crore
(Rs 40 million) and our revenue is Rs 100 crore (Rs
1 billion).
• When we became a Rs 100 crore company in
October 2015, we celebrated in grand scale. We
have grown from producing 10 packets a day in
2005, with just my cousin managing the kitchen,
to 50,000 packets a day with 1,100 employees in
10 years.
Dhiru Bhai Ambani
• India’s largest private sector company. Created an
equity cult in the Indian capital market. Reliance
is the first Indian company to feature in Forbes
500 list.
• Dhirubhai Ambani was the most enterprising
Indian entrepreneur. He is remembered as the
one who rewrote Indian corporate history and
built a truly global corporate group.
• Dhirubhai Ambani alias Dhirajlal Hirachand
Ambani was born on December 28, 1932, at
Chorwad, Gujarat, into a Modh family. His father
was a school teacher. Dhirubhai Ambani started
his entrepreneurial career by selling “bhajias” to
pilgrims in Mount Girnar over the weekends.
• After doing his matriculation at the age of 16,
Dhirubhai moved to Aden, Yemen. He worked there as
a gas-station attendant, and as a clerk in an oil
company. He returned to India in 1958 with Rs 50,000
and set up a textile trading company.
• In 1992, Reliance became the first Indian company to
raise money in global markets, its high credit-taking in
international markets limited only by India’s sovereign
rating. Reliance also became the first Indian company
to feature in Forbes 500 list.
• Dhirubhai Ambani was named the Indian Entrepreneur
of the 20th Century by the Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). A poll
conducted by The Times of India in 2000 voted him
“greatest creator of wealth in the century”.
• Dhirubhai Ambani died on July 6, 2002, at Mumbai.
Ramesh Babu, the barber who owns a
Rolls Royce
• Bangalore resident Ramesh Babu, is a star in his
own league who runs the business of cutting and
styling hair.
• He is an ordinary businessman, with an
extraordinary wealth. He is a billionaire and owns
a rent-a-car fleet of 67 alternative cars.
• At the moment his fleet consists of around 200
cars, vans and mini-buses, including imported
vehicles—a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, Mercedes C,
E and S class and BMW 5, 6 and 7 series. He has a
fleet of imported Mercedes vans and Toyota mini-
buses.
• “This is more of a passion,” he says. As for
being a barber, “I will continue to be one as
long as my hands are healthy.”
• Amazingly, Ramesh charges Rs 75000 a day for
the Rolls and his usual clients are corporate
bigwigs and visiting Bollywood and Tollywood
stars.
 NARAYANA MURTHY
• Narayana Murthy is one of the founders
of Infoys Technologies Limited.
• In 1999, Infoys became the first
Indian company to be listed on
NASDAQ.
• By 2006 the company employed over
50,000 people and had a turn over of
two billion dollars.
• Murthy has always believed that
honesty, transparency and moral
integrity are the key factors in
business.
 SHIV NADAR
• He is the Chief Executive Officer
of Hindustan Computers Limited
(HCL), India's largest info tech
conglomerate.
• While working as an engineer with
another company, Nadar wanted to
become an entrepreneur by setting up
his own business.
• He quit his job and launched his own
company making office products
mainly copiers.
• In 1970 when IBM quit India,
Shiv Nadar's HCL stepped in for
IBM.
 KIRAN MAZUMDAR SHAW
• She is the Chairman and
Managing Director of Biocon
LTD, the largest Biotechnology
Company in India.
• Shaw started Biocon in 1978 in
a rented garage space.
• Faced with a variety of problems
and challenges since
biotechnology was a new field and
woman entrepreneur was very
rare, Shaw overcame all
entrepreneurial barriers and made
Biocon a success.
Thank You