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Nowadays women are successful entrepreneurs in modern technology-based business ventures like tours and travels,
business related to IT etc.
Some of the well-known women entrepreneurs are:
• Kiran Mazumdar Shaw: She is the founder of Biocon Limited. This firm has entered the
US biosimilars market and is getting the attention of investors. As per Forbes, it is the
first company to get approval from the USFDA.
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
• Falguni Nayar: The Founder of Nykaa, which sells cosmetic and wellness products
online.
Falguni Nayar
• Kalpana Saroj: She is the first woman entrepreneur of India and she is of the CEO of
Kamani Tubes. Her journey from a Dalit child bride to Kalpana Saroj multi-millionaire is
commendable and full of challenges.
Kalpana Saroj
Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Small scale entrepreneurship means doing business at small scale in manufacturing, trading, providing services,
productions etc. It involves less capital investment, less labour and fewer machines to operate in a small place which
can be from home or a small rented place in a locality nearby. These businesses play a very important role in the
economy of many developing countries. Some of the small-scale entrepreneurship are bakery, candle making, potato
chip making, toy making, dairy and related products, liquid soap making, spices etc.
WORK DONE BY AN ENTREPRENEUR
When an entrepreneur runs a business:
• They use their creativity to come up with a new business idea that
will fulfill the changing demands of the customer’s.
• They use the available material and people available around them
in an innovative way merged with new technology to create new
products.
• They work for the welfare of the society by saving the environment,
contributing their money to build new schools and hospitals in
their locality.
• They create jobs by hiring the skilled and unskilled labourers and helps in bridging the gap of unemployment.
• With the success of an entrepreneur the people connecting to it, all shares the success and thus helps in the overall
development of the country.
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