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Introduction To Entrepreneurship

This document provides an introduction to entrepreneurship. It defines what an entrepreneur is, the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur, and some key characteristics and functions of entrepreneurs. It also discusses entrepreneurial development programs in India, related problems, and provides an example of a successful entrepreneur from Assam, India - Leela Charan Dutta, who started a bee keeping business with Rs. 10,000 and grew it to an annual turnover of Rs. 70 lakhs employing 20 people. In conclusion, it states that entrepreneurs can play an important role in stabilizing the Indian economy.

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Introduction To Entrepreneurship

This document provides an introduction to entrepreneurship. It defines what an entrepreneur is, the difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur, and some key characteristics and functions of entrepreneurs. It also discusses entrepreneurial development programs in India, related problems, and provides an example of a successful entrepreneur from Assam, India - Leela Charan Dutta, who started a bee keeping business with Rs. 10,000 and grew it to an annual turnover of Rs. 70 lakhs employing 20 people. In conclusion, it states that entrepreneurs can play an important role in stabilizing the Indian economy.

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Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Prepared By Anupam Das

Pritam Das(prepare 9, 10, 11)


Keziah Lohe(prepare 7, 8) Latif Rabha(prepare 5, 6) BBA 5th Sem

What is an Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneur is a French word coined by the economist Jean-Baptiste Say. An Entrepreneur, rather than working as an employee, runs a small business
and assumes all the risk and reward of a given business venture, idea, or good or service offered for sale. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as a business leader and innovator of new ideas and business processes.

Difference between a businessman and an entrepreneur



Back in the day, everyone who owned a venture or inherited one was called a businessman, at least in India. A businessman usually starts a venture from an existing idea or concept and therefore becomes a market player. An entrepreneur on the other hand, thinks of a unique idea, spins it into a venture and aims to become a market leader, someone who seeks to change the rules of the game. Businessmen have one primary motive-a healthy bottom line, even in the early days. In short, they want short-term gains. An entrepreneur, however, begins his journey with a people and customer-oriented outlook. Businessman hire people to increase productivity. Entrepreneurs, create jobs.

Characteristics of an Entrepreneur

Functions of an Entrepreneur

Role of Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurial Development Programme in India and its related problems


EDPs in India are affected with a number of problems which are responsible
for low level of success of the programmers. The problems come from the trainers, trainees, the various organizations imparting training programmers, the supporting organization and even sometimes the government. Some of the important problems faced by EDPs are narrated as follows:

Entrepreneurial Development Programme in India and its related problems

Successful Entrepreneurs from Assam


Leela Charan Dutta

The young man from Charigaon, a small village in Assams Jorhat region, has been doing some impressive work in the bee keeping industry.

At a yearly turnover of Rs 70 Lakhs and a work force of twenty people, Dutta has achieved the status of the most successful honey producer and bee keeper in the north-eastern province of the country. After two years of rigorous struggle, Dutta started his business with a mere Rs 10,000 and a set of 10 bee-hives about two decades back. He later registered his business under the CK Udyog that operates under the Small Scale Industry Department of Assam. Now Dutta runs his own processing unit that was initiated in 1994 with an investment of Rs 3 Lakhs from the Assam Finance Corporation Bank.

CONCLUSION
In this era of falling Indian Rupee, entrepreneurs can be important catalyst in reinforcing and stabilizing the plummeting Indian Economy. We can easily say that entrepreneurs are indispensable for improving Indias economy. They are one of the chief agents of pushing the GDP forward. Thus, if proper avenues are provided and their issues resolved, there is no way entrepreneurs would lag behind the corporate biggies

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