Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurs and Startups is a presentation talking about contemporary entrepreneurs and startups. Also lists events and other stuff where people wanting to start can look for help.

1. Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs
&
Startups
This is what it takes to create wealth for Good!
Prakash B Pimpale
CDAC Mumbai

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
Technical skills
Domain specific hard skills Biz Management skills
Communication Planning, formulating Entrepreneurial skills
Co-ordinating in team Goals, decision-making, Risk-seeking
Interpersonal relations motivating, marketing, Innovation
accounting, negotiation Change-orientation
Persistence
Visionary

4. How It Goes
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For 'some' reason you think of starting on your
own
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You get a chance to work on it
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You start
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You fail and succeed iteratively
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You raise funding [Angel/Venture Capital]
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You scale
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You sale or you are all set for an IPO

5. What Exists and What may Excel

6. Contemporary Startups
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Flipkart, Infibeam : Books, Electronic Stuff, Gifts, etc.
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Bookmyshow, Bookmytrainings : Bookings
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Makemytrip, Cleartrip, Redbus : Travel Booking
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Dealface, Groupon : Group Buying, Daily Deals
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Facebook, Twitter : Social
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Naukari, Jeevansathi : Hunt
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Paypal : Payment Gateway
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Desicrew : Rural BPO
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RangDe, Inkfruit, Airtel, Google, JustDial, NIIT

7. Next big
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Analytics - Mu Sigma (Rs 580 crore from Sequoi and
General Atlantic)
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Online Docs – zoho
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Social Net - Custom social nets
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Electronic Commerce – Buildabazaar, firstcry.com
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Daily Deals/group buying – Groupon, mydala, daily deals,
snapdeals
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Telcom – Internet, applications, low cost services [?]
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Non Tech- Agriculture, Health Care, Human
resource/staffing, transport, banking, food, Clean tech
(Solar, environment friendly products)
?

8. Where to start

9. Online forums
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NASCOM Emerge Community
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National Entrepreneurship Network
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Pluggd.in
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iamstarting – interviews with founders
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TechCrunch
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open Coffee clubs / POCC
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Paul Graham Essays (Y Combinator)

10. Offline Stuff
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Magazines : Entrepreneur, DARE, Udyojak
(Marathi)
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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
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Startup saturday
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Proto.in
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StartUp city
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iWeekend
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Startup Garage, pune
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NASSCOM Emerge
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TiE – The Indus Entrepreneurs
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Tata Jagriti Yatra

12. Funding
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Venture Capital: Sequoi capital, Cannon
Partners, (Vinod) Khosala Ventures
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Incubators (SINE IITB/CIIE IIMA)
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Angel Investors – Mumbai Angels, Indian
Angel Network
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Public – NSE/BSE
Seed.Early.Growth

13. Government Initiatives
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National Science & Technology
Entrepreneurship Development Board
(NSTEDB), DST India
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Technology Development Board (TDB), DST
India
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Incubators at IIMA, IITB, NCL Pune and many
more by TDB
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National Innovation Foundation – Competitions,
Joint Product Development, ideas, Patenting

14. Why is this right time to start
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for technology startups – opensource,
digitisation, user maturity, funding
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for non tech startups – low cost processing with
automation, focus on core business,
consumerism and growing incomes, awareness
about the standard of living, funding

15. Any ideas?
Thank you!