This document contains questions related to entrepreneurship, startups, business incubation, and financing for new ventures. It includes very short answer questions, short answer questions, and long answer questions on topics such as types of entrepreneurs, startup ecosystems, business models, financing stages, incubation centers, commercializing technology, intellectual property, and factors for entrepreneurial success or failure.

1. BPUT Questions
Discussion
MBA

2. Very Short Answer Questions
• What is meant by Fabian Entrepreneur. Give 2 examples
• Define Industrial Sickness. Give examples of 2 sick companies
• Why imitative entrepreneur is better than innovative entrepreneur?
• What is meant by Startup Ecosystem?
• Define virtual business incubation and give suitable examples
• What are different forms of incubation centres
• What is replicable business model for a startup business
• Distinguish between startup and business incubation.
• State 4 important characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
• What is TBI

3. VSAQ
• Who is called a serial entrepreneur and who is called an
intrapreneur
• What is proof of concept?
• Proof of concept (POC) is a test conducted for the purpose of validating that a product or idea is feasible to take to
the commercialization stage. A POC can be in the form of a document, presentation
• What is meant by commercialization of technology
• Name 2 VC funds in India
• Does Odisha have a startup Policy? Which department of govt of Odisha implements it.
• What is IP. Explain with an example
• Takeover of WhatsApp by FB. Give a good and a bad reason
• What is scalable and replicable in the context of business model for a startup

4. Continued…
• How do you classify entrepreneurship?
• Define the small scale business unit in India
• What is the meaning of ‘replicable’ in the context of business model
for a startup.
• What is business incubation?
• What are different forms of incubation centres
• Why is commercialization of technology necessary?
• What is intrapreneurship?
• What is disruptive technology?
• What is startup culture?

5. Short Answer Questions
• What makes Silicon Valley a unique entity?
• What are the major challenges faced by women entrepreneurs?
• What is meant by Benchmarking?
• What are the different stages of financing a startup?
• Pre-seed Funding stage. This is the first step in the funding process and is also commonly
known as the bootstrapping stage. ...
• Seed Funding phase. ...
• Venture Capital phase. ...
• First sale of shares (IPO) ...
• Conclusion.

6. What are the guidelines for Seed Support system
for startup business?
• Eligibility Conditions for Incubatee Start Ups for seed support
• Incubatee should be a registered company with minimum of three months
residency at the TBI
• Incubatee has to be an Indian start-up.
• This support is not meant for Indian Subsidiaries of MNCs/foreign
companies.
• Persons holding Overseas Citizens of India (OCI), Persons of Indian Origin
(PIO) would be considered as Indian citizens for the purpose of this
scheme.
• The share holding by Indian promoters in the incubate start up should be
atleast 51%.

7. What are the guidelines for Seed Support system
for startup business?
• Additional Guidelines of the Assistance under SSS
• ♦ The seed support would be managed by identified TBIs/STEPs recommended by the National
Expert Advisory Committee on Innovation, Incubation and Technology Entrepreneurship
• ♦ Seed Support is given as a grant to implementing TBI/STEP, while the TBI disburses it to the
deserving incubatees as soft loan or equity or a combination of both.
• ♦ The Seed Support would be disbursed to incubatees (physical resident units within the
TBI/STEP) which are registered units only on the recommendation of the Seed Support
Management Committee constituted by the TBI. It is necessary that there exists a proper legally
vetted agreement between the incubatee and TBI/STEP.
• ♦ The seed support would be disbursed to the deserving incubatees with proper due diligence
by the TBI/STEP.
• ♦ The seed support would generally cater to early stage financing for commercialization of the
indigenous ideas , innovations and technologies.
• ♦ This seed support would be used by the incubated entrepreneur only and would not be used
by the incubator for facility creation.

8. Short Answer Questions
• Discuss the basic constituents of a Business Plan
• Mention a few techniques to generate creative ideas
• Give a brief classification of entrepreneurship
• What is meant by strategic alliances. Explain with examples
• Spotify & Uber, Ola and Airtel DtH, iPhone and Google Search
• Difference between entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.
• Discuss the psychological and social models of ED
• Discuss state level institutions for supporting entrepreneurial
activities

9. Short Answer Questions
• Entrepreneurs are made not born. Comment and outline the traits of successful
entrepreneurs
• Do you agree that entrepreneurs are change agents? Justify your answer
• What do you mean by business plan. Consider yourself a small scale manufacturer.
Prepare a BP highlighting various components
• Discuss environmental clearence procedure for starting a small enterprise.
• Why is WC considered the life blood of an enterprise?
• Explain how a starttup is financed. Discuss the different stages
• Define Industrial sickness with special reference to SSI. Discuss causes and consequences
of industrial sickness in India
• Discuss startup development phases
• Short notes on
• Bankability of a project
• VC and AF
• Regulatory clearance for setting up a business

10. Long Answer Qs
• What are the characteristic traits of an entrepreneur. What knowledge and skills
are necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur?
• What is entrepreneurial Ecosystem? Name components of the ecosystem
individually and collectively for its development in a country or a region.
• What is business incubator. How does a startup benefit from an incubator. What
is virtual business incubation.
• Management degree is a gateway to successful entrepreneurship. Discuss
• Showrt Notes
• VCs
• Angel Funding
• Mentoring
• Causes of entrepreneurial failure

11. LAQ
• Discuss briefly the rationale behind development of MSM enterprise
in India
• What is business incubation. What are the underlying policies
• Define startup. What are the essential components of startup
business
• How entrepreneurial motivation is useful in developing a successful
entrepreneur?