1) The document discusses entrepreneurship from the perspective of Shirish Kulkarni, founder and MD of STROTA ConsulTech, who has over 25 years of experience including at the CxO level across IT, business development, R&D, and working with over 25 SMB clients. 2) It explores what entrepreneurship means, what motivates people to become entrepreneurs, the importance of having a clear goal or end state in mind, whether entrepreneurs are born or made, and the differences between an employee and entrepreneurial mindset. 3) Key aspects of starting a business that are discussed include what a startup is, how to incubate and realize ideas, the importance of market research, developing a

1. Entrepreneurship,
A Perspective …
Shirish Kulkarni,
Founder & MD, STROTA ConsulTech 5th Feb 2022

2. Feb-2022
About the Speaker
>> Overall 25+ years experience
>> 10+ years experience at the “CxO” level
>> Experience across various functions – IT, Business Development, R&D
>> Exposure to Global Markets and Clients
>> Analyzed @ 150 Businesses of various industry domains
>> Contribution to growth and transformation for @ 25+ SMB clients
>> Focus on realization of client’s Business Growth
ShirishKulkarni

3. What is an Entrepreneur?
Feb-2022

4. What’s Entrepreneurship?
Feb-2022

5. Money?
Get New
concept
implemented?
Build an
enterprise?
Become world
popular?
I just want to
start a
business?
I don’t want to
work for
anyone?
I want to work
on a completely
new idea?
I want to be
another OLA
/AirBnB
Feb-2022
Whats the end goal in your mind?

6. Feb-2022
Are we born Entrepreneur ???

7. Feb-2022
The Employee Mindset …

8. Feb-2022
Predictions from the early stages
…

9. Feb-2022
What’s a start-up ???

10. Feb-2022
Enterpreneurship to Business

11. Feb-2022
Sample Incubation Center …

12. Feb-2022
Sample Incubation Center
Metrics :: IIT Madras

13. Feb-2022
Sample Incubation Center
Metrics :: IIT Madras

14. Feb-2022
Success : Dependency TRIANGLE
…

15. Feb-2022
Watch your Competition …

16. Feb-2022
How does the Investments work?

17. Industry 4.0 : Industry Perspective
Physical Entity
Measurement / Sensors / Data Acquisition
Hardware / Communication Layer / Data Transfer
Data Storage
Dashboards / Analytics / Patterns
Business Intelligence
Business Consumption / Use-cases
August-2019
Smart Manufacturing
Automation
Big Data
Blockchain
Human-Machine-
Interface
IIOT (Industrial Internet
of Things)
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
ML (Machine Learning)
Intelligent Things /
Machines
Virtual /
Digital
Data
Knowledge
Physical

18. Feb-2022
Who Am I?

19. Inventor / Scientist?
Creator? (Artist)
Innovator?
Entrepreneur?
Businessman?
Enterprise Owner
Feb-2022
How do you categorize
yourself???

20. Identify the
Themes or
Problem
Statements
Conduct
Structured
Brainstorming
sessions
Build the
context
Build a
common
Evaluation
Criteria
Evaluate the
ideas and
rank them
Build a priority
list of ideas
Identify
stakeholders
Feb-2022
Idea to Realization …
Idea Incubation Realization
SEED ideas Evaluated
Ideas
List of ideass Contextualize
d Ideas Value
Proposition
Evaluation
Criteria
Evaluation
Criteria Priority List
of Ideas
We are here

21. Feb-2022
How to achieve it?

22. Market Research & Customer Development
Naming & Positioning
Revenue Model & Capital Requirements
Team & Advisors
Product Development & Product Proofing
Legal & Intellectual Property
Sales & Tractions
Feb-2022
Business Plan …

23. Feb-2022
Magic Ingredients?

24. 1. Brilliant – Realizable – Useful
–idea ..
2. Market Potential for Idea
3. Plan for realization
4. Money to support till the
realization
5. Division of work
6. Success as the Process
Feb-2022
Critical Success Factors !
9. Self Belief - Self
Belief - Self Belief
8. Passion – Passion
– Passion – Passion
– Passion
7. Persistence –
Patience – Continuity
– Never Give UP

25. Feb-2022
Difficult Balancing Act !

26. Feb-2022
What does WORLD see?

27. Feb-2022
The story …

28. Feb-2022

29. Feb-2022
Eager to connect …