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Who is an Entrepreneur?

                 The word “Entrepreneur”  is  derived  from  the  French  verb  ‘entreprendre’  which  means  "to  undertake".  An
                 Entrepreneur is a person who invests his time, energy and money to initiate an exclusive idea for a new venture. He
                 starts his own start-up with the desire to establish it. He may earn profits or bear losses and is wholly responsible
                 for the unpredictable failures and risks.
                 They are the innovators of the market who see opportunities where others see roadblocks. The success of these
                 business innovators is undoubtedly essential to change our economy for the advancement of our societies.

                 Entrepreneurship is the act of executing an innovative idea in a business. The output of this innovative process of
                 setting up a business is called an enterprise.


                                Entrepreneur                  Entrepreneurship                 Enterprise

                                   Person                         Process                       Outcome
                 Let's take an example:

                 Go Green Company is a successful entrepreneur project where a group of 5 college students decides to give plants
                 in their locality at cheaper price to support the Green Economy. In a year they got a wonderful response, so they
                 decided to open up their own nursery and supply plants in the whole city.
                 So in this example:
                 Group of college students is an Entrepreneur.

                 Innovative ways of running their own business is Entrepreneurship.
                 The output of this innovative process is Go Green Company, which is the Enterprise.

                         What is Entrepreneurship?


                 Entrepreneurship is setting your own business in an innovative manner which may have great risks and desires to
                 earn more profits. Entrepreneurship, thus involves taking risks with innovation, planning and decisions so as to
                 increase productivity in any field business, agriculture, social work, education, etc. It thus plays an important role
                 in the process of economic development. Entrepreneurship can be at small scale, medium scale or large scale in
                 terms of products and services. There are four main elements of entrepreneurship:
                    • Innovation: It means doing something in a creative and different way. This is the key element of entrepreneurship.
                   Opening a roadside restaurant is just like opening a business but bringing the element of "Home cooked food
                   for the people in a Food Truck" is called an innovation in business.
                    • Organisation: This plays an important role if a startup is launched at a large scale with a big investment. Though
                   an entrepreneur is a person leading the whole business with his ideas but the other employees working in an
                   organisation are equally important for the success of the startup.
                    • Risk bearing: Doing a business with a new idea is always associated with risk. But taking a calculated risk is
                   an important element of entrepreneurship. This will bring change in the society by bringing new products and
                   services.
                    • Perception: Entrepreneurship should have a strong perception of running a business in an innovative manner.
                   An entrepreneur should implement his plans and ideas in such a way that helps him achieve long term goals of
                   his business with greater profits.





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