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ENTREPRENEUR
&
INTRAPRENEUR
ENTREPRENEUR
Entrepreneur The term 'entrepreneur' is derived from
the French word ' entrprendre ' which
means 'go between' or 'to undertake'
An entrepreneur is an individual who
creates a new business, bearing most
of the risks and enjoying most of the
rewards.
Peter F Drucker defines an
entrepreneur as one who always
searches for change, responds to it and
exploits it as an opportunity.
ADOLF DASSLER :
Early Life
• Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a German cobbler, inventor
and entrepreneur who founded the German sportswear
company Adidas.
• Adolf Dassler was born on 3 November 1900, in
Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany,
• Adolf Dassler was the youngest of four siblings. His
father Christoph was a tailor and his mother Pauline
ran the family laundry business.
• His mother set up a laundry in the back of the house
where his sister Marie also worked, and the three boys
were used to deliver clean wash throughout the town,
becoming known as the "laundry boys."
• In 1913, Adolf completed high school and following the
wishes of his father entered an apprenticeship to
become a baker, but decided against baking as a long-
term career.
Adi spent much of his free time in athletic endeavors. Along
with his childhood friend, Fritz Zehlein .He engaged in a variety
of sporting events in track and field as well
as football, boxing, ice hockey, skiing and ski jumping.
He began to learn stitching from his father. He also began
thinking about how changes in shoe design could improve
athletic performance.
Adi was conscripted in June 1918 in the last days of the war.
He remained in the army for over a year until October 1919.
When Adi returned, he found that the economic devastation of
the war caused their mother to give up the laundry business.
Adi decided to pursue his concepts of innovative athletic
footwear design and use the laundry shed to begin a small
shoe production business.
THE DASSLER
BROTHERS SHOE FACTORY
1924
Adolf "Adi" Dassler established a shoe
factory along with his brother in 1924
and named it Dassler Brothers Shoe
Factory.
1925
By 1925 their fledgling startup had
three employees based in their one-
room workshop, producing leather
football boots with nailed studs, as
well as spiked track shoes.
Adolf aims for
Olympic success
•. Their first success came at the 1928 Summer
Olympics in Amsterdam.
• When Adolf gave German distance runner Lina
Radke a pair of his spiked track shoes. It was the first
time women had been allowed to compete in the
800m distance and Lina won the race with a World
Record time.
• The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin brought the company
tremendous international recognition after the American
track-and-field star Jesse Owens won four gold medals
wearing track spikes manufactured by Adolf Dassler.
• The increased demands led to the opening of a new factory
in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany in 1938.
• The company produced shoes for the German army, though
it still continued limited production of sports shoes.
• The brothers split up in 1947 after relations between them
had broken down.
• They officially split up their company in 1948.
The creation of the
company ADIDAS
• On 18 August 1949, Adi registered his new company ‘Adolf
Dassler (adidas) Sportschuhfabrik’
• To make his products stand out from their competitors, he started
designing adidas shoes with three stripes sewn on the side.
• The three stripes are Adidas' identity mark, having been used on
the company's clothing and shoe designs as a marketing aid.
• Adidas focused heavily on the sponsorships and technical
innovations, by which it designed specific shoes to a wide variety
of athletes.
• Adolf Dassler also provided the best shoes of the Adidas to
various champion athletes and Olympians.
INTRAPRENEUR
Intrapreneur
• The person who does entrepreneurial work
within an organization is an Intrapreneur.
• Intrapreneurs are usually employees within a
company who are assigned to work on a
special idea or project.
• The word intrapreneur is coined in 1980s by a
management consultant Gifford Pinchot.
Companies that are in great need of new
innovative ideas use intrapreneurs.
ORKUT
BUYUKKOKTEN
ORKUT BUYUKKOKTEN
Early Life
Orkut Buyukkokten was born on 6th February 1975, in Konya,
Turkey.
He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and
Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara.
He received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Stanford University.
His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient
PDA usage.
He introduced his first social
network, named Club
Nexus, at Stanford
in 2001 for the students of
Stanford University.
The students of the
university used the platform
for chatting, finding people
with similar interests, buying
and selling products and
many other things.
Buyukkokten also
introduced another social
network, inCircle, which was
for the Stanford Alumni
Association.
In 2002, Buyukkokten
launched a company, Affinity
Engines, to commercialize
inCircle and Club Nexus.
Buyukkokten at
Google
In 2002, Orkut joined Google’s engineering team as a front-end developer and worked on
the code base that rendered the web pages.
While at the Google, as a 20 percent project (a Google's concept where one devotes 20
percent of his/her time to something he/she loves in alignment with Google's core
mission), he created a social network called 'Eden'.
However he couldn't get the domain eden.com. Then had a meeting with Marissa Mayer
and Eric Schmidt and they suggested that he should launch it as orkut.com Because he
was the one who created it, it was a five-letter word, and domain was available.
Soon after the launch, when the website got hundreds of thousands of users, Google
decided to assign more resources to orkut.com
"Orkut.com" belonged to Orkut Buyukkokten himself. Google convinced him, and its social
networking service was called Orkut.
Orkut left orkut.com team in 2008 and decided to become a product manager at
Google. He worked on Google images, Google one bar and Google videos.
Success of Orkut.com
• Google was launched Orkut on 22nd January, 2004.
• Orkut Buyukkokten created one of the first social networking
websites, Orkut, which was under the acquisition of Google.
• During the first year, the United States had the largest user
base. Soon after, Brazil surpassed the U.S. in the number of
users and Orkut started becoming heavily popular in Brazil.
• The India story for Orkut was only getting stronger, when in
2007, Google recognized its potential, and rolled out the site in
six Indian languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada
and Telugu.
• Orkut was launched worldwide and gained the most popularity
in Estonia, Brazil and India.
• At one point, Orkut.com became so popular that it had over 300
million users across the globe and had as many pages as
Google search.
Orkut shutdown
• On June 30, 2014, Google announced that Orkut
would be shutting down completely on September 30,
2014.
• Users could export their photo albums before the final
shutdown date. Orkut profiles, scraps, testimonials,
and community posts could be exported until
September 2016.
• Google engineering director Paulo Golgher said in a
blog post: "Over the past decade, Facebook,
YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with
communities springing up in every corner of the
world. Because the growth of these communities has
outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut
farewell."
Orkut and its Features
• Profile
• Scrapbook
• Friends
• Messages
• Communities
• Profile views
• Themes
• Testimonials
• Photos and videos
• Events
• Birthday remainders
• Crush list
• Applications
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Entrepreneur and Intrapreneur

  • 3. Entrepreneur The term 'entrepreneur' is derived from the French word ' entrprendre ' which means 'go between' or 'to undertake' An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, bearing most of the risks and enjoying most of the rewards. Peter F Drucker defines an entrepreneur as one who always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.
  • 4.
  • 5. ADOLF DASSLER : Early Life • Adolf "Adi" Dassler was a German cobbler, inventor and entrepreneur who founded the German sportswear company Adidas. • Adolf Dassler was born on 3 November 1900, in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany, • Adolf Dassler was the youngest of four siblings. His father Christoph was a tailor and his mother Pauline ran the family laundry business. • His mother set up a laundry in the back of the house where his sister Marie also worked, and the three boys were used to deliver clean wash throughout the town, becoming known as the "laundry boys." • In 1913, Adolf completed high school and following the wishes of his father entered an apprenticeship to become a baker, but decided against baking as a long- term career.
  • 6. Adi spent much of his free time in athletic endeavors. Along with his childhood friend, Fritz Zehlein .He engaged in a variety of sporting events in track and field as well as football, boxing, ice hockey, skiing and ski jumping. He began to learn stitching from his father. He also began thinking about how changes in shoe design could improve athletic performance. Adi was conscripted in June 1918 in the last days of the war. He remained in the army for over a year until October 1919. When Adi returned, he found that the economic devastation of the war caused their mother to give up the laundry business. Adi decided to pursue his concepts of innovative athletic footwear design and use the laundry shed to begin a small shoe production business.
  • 7. THE DASSLER BROTHERS SHOE FACTORY 1924 Adolf "Adi" Dassler established a shoe factory along with his brother in 1924 and named it Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory. 1925 By 1925 their fledgling startup had three employees based in their one- room workshop, producing leather football boots with nailed studs, as well as spiked track shoes.
  • 8. Adolf aims for Olympic success •. Their first success came at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. • When Adolf gave German distance runner Lina Radke a pair of his spiked track shoes. It was the first time women had been allowed to compete in the 800m distance and Lina won the race with a World Record time.
  • 9. • The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin brought the company tremendous international recognition after the American track-and-field star Jesse Owens won four gold medals wearing track spikes manufactured by Adolf Dassler. • The increased demands led to the opening of a new factory in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany in 1938. • The company produced shoes for the German army, though it still continued limited production of sports shoes. • The brothers split up in 1947 after relations between them had broken down. • They officially split up their company in 1948.
  • 10. The creation of the company ADIDAS • On 18 August 1949, Adi registered his new company ‘Adolf Dassler (adidas) Sportschuhfabrik’ • To make his products stand out from their competitors, he started designing adidas shoes with three stripes sewn on the side. • The three stripes are Adidas' identity mark, having been used on the company's clothing and shoe designs as a marketing aid. • Adidas focused heavily on the sponsorships and technical innovations, by which it designed specific shoes to a wide variety of athletes. • Adolf Dassler also provided the best shoes of the Adidas to various champion athletes and Olympians.
  • 11.
  • 13. Intrapreneur • The person who does entrepreneurial work within an organization is an Intrapreneur. • Intrapreneurs are usually employees within a company who are assigned to work on a special idea or project. • The word intrapreneur is coined in 1980s by a management consultant Gifford Pinchot. Companies that are in great need of new innovative ideas use intrapreneurs.
  • 15. ORKUT BUYUKKOKTEN Early Life Orkut Buyukkokten was born on 6th February 1975, in Konya, Turkey. He obtained a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Information Science from Bilkent University in Ankara. He received both a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. His research at Stanford focused on Web search and efficient PDA usage.
  • 16. He introduced his first social network, named Club Nexus, at Stanford in 2001 for the students of Stanford University. The students of the university used the platform for chatting, finding people with similar interests, buying and selling products and many other things. Buyukkokten also introduced another social network, inCircle, which was for the Stanford Alumni Association. In 2002, Buyukkokten launched a company, Affinity Engines, to commercialize inCircle and Club Nexus.
  • 17. Buyukkokten at Google In 2002, Orkut joined Google’s engineering team as a front-end developer and worked on the code base that rendered the web pages. While at the Google, as a 20 percent project (a Google's concept where one devotes 20 percent of his/her time to something he/she loves in alignment with Google's core mission), he created a social network called 'Eden'. However he couldn't get the domain eden.com. Then had a meeting with Marissa Mayer and Eric Schmidt and they suggested that he should launch it as orkut.com Because he was the one who created it, it was a five-letter word, and domain was available. Soon after the launch, when the website got hundreds of thousands of users, Google decided to assign more resources to orkut.com "Orkut.com" belonged to Orkut Buyukkokten himself. Google convinced him, and its social networking service was called Orkut. Orkut left orkut.com team in 2008 and decided to become a product manager at Google. He worked on Google images, Google one bar and Google videos.
  • 18. Success of Orkut.com • Google was launched Orkut on 22nd January, 2004. • Orkut Buyukkokten created one of the first social networking websites, Orkut, which was under the acquisition of Google. • During the first year, the United States had the largest user base. Soon after, Brazil surpassed the U.S. in the number of users and Orkut started becoming heavily popular in Brazil. • The India story for Orkut was only getting stronger, when in 2007, Google recognized its potential, and rolled out the site in six Indian languages—Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. • Orkut was launched worldwide and gained the most popularity in Estonia, Brazil and India. • At one point, Orkut.com became so popular that it had over 300 million users across the globe and had as many pages as Google search.
  • 19. Orkut shutdown • On June 30, 2014, Google announced that Orkut would be shutting down completely on September 30, 2014. • Users could export their photo albums before the final shutdown date. Orkut profiles, scraps, testimonials, and community posts could be exported until September 2016. • Google engineering director Paulo Golgher said in a blog post: "Over the past decade, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell."
  • 20. Orkut and its Features • Profile • Scrapbook • Friends • Messages • Communities • Profile views • Themes • Testimonials • Photos and videos • Events • Birthday remainders • Crush list • Applications