The document discusses various aspects of entrepreneurship including its characteristics, types of skills required, and the entrepreneurship process. It notes that entrepreneurship is a discipline that can be learned, not magic or mysterious. Successful entrepreneurs passionately pursue new opportunities with discipline. The entrepreneurship process involves motivation, spotting opportunities, acquiring resources, overcoming obstacles, and managing risk.

1. Entrepreneurship

4. Why Start A Business? Control Others Survey by Padgett Business Services USA Inc.

5. Types of Skills Required in Entrepreneurship Technical Business Management Personal Writing Planning Inner Control Oral Communication Leadership Risk Taking Monitoring the Environment Interpersonal Innovative Using Technology Marketing (Selling) Change-oriented visionary

6. Entrepreneur Process Diagram Motivation to make a difference Spotting & Exploiting Opportunities Finding the required resources Using networks extensively Overcoming Obstacles Controlling the Business Financial, Social, Aesthetic Capital Showing determination in the face of adversity Managing Risk

7. Entrepreneurship Process The Idea Realizing the opportunity Engaging the idea & opportunity Exploiting the opportunity to build something of value The Inventor The Opportunity Spotter The Project Champion

11. India's PEOPLE – ITS STRONGEST ASSET Based on IMD World Competitiveness Survey

12. A large pool of skilled people... Note: Survey results: 1=low; 10 = high Source: IMD world competitiveness Yearbook 2003 ...with high end qualifications... ...and extremely cost efficient Availability of skilled labour, 2003 Availability of qualified engineers, 2003 Total compensation for manufacturing workers, 2002

13. CONFIDENCE: INDIA INC. GOING GLOBAL Source: Literature Review Overseas Acquisitions by India Inc ($ US Million)

14. A snapshot of Indians at the helm of leading Global businesses The Co-founder of Sun Microsystems (Vinod Khosla), Creator of Pentium Chip (Vinod Dahm), Founder and creator of Hotmail (Sabeer Bhatia), Chief Executive of McKinsey & Co. (Rajat Gupta) President and CFO of Pepsi Cola (Indra Nooyi) President of United Airlines (Rono Dutta) GM of Hewlett Packard (Rajiv Gupta) President and CEO of US Airways (Rakesh Gangwal) Chief Executive of CitiBank (Victor Menezes), Chief Executives of Standard Chartered Bank (Rana Talwar) Chief Executive officer of Vodafone (Arun Sarin) President of AT & T-Bell Labs (Arun Netravali) Vice-Chairman and founder of Juniper Networks (Pradeep Sindhu) Founder of Bose Audio (Amar Bose) Founder, chip designer Cirrus Logic (Suhas Patil ) Chairman and CEO of Computer Associates (Sanjay Kumar) Head of (HPC WorldWide) of Unilever Plc . (Keki Dadiseth) Chief Executive Officer of HSBC (Aman Mehta) Director and member of Executive Board of Goldman Sachs (Girish Reddy) Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (Raghuram Rajan

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