Having been founder of a successful enterprise for a long period of 30 years, my understanding is:
1. Entrepreneurship is a combination of different skills – Skills cannot be taught but they can be developed and honed if one has the aptitude. This also includes self-learning.
2. Passion is a state of mind or attitude that is partly inborn and partly a result of upbringing, experience and intellect.
Regards
Virendra Goel
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Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 12:23 AM
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Subject: Fw: [MTC Global] Do you believe the modified version of Pareto's principle holds?
"Is an entrepreneur born, or can entrepreneurial skills be taught?" is not only oft asked question , but also continues to be ""Shesh Prashna"-an unresolved question..It remains to be highly contentious as there is evidence to show that both are equally valid or invalid at the same time !Then what differs between the two is context and the supra-resource that commands the context .
The authors are of the opinion that not only Entrepreneurship, but Creativity, Ethics, Leadership also can't be taught in the conventional sense of "Teaching-Learning Process". In the case Entrepreneurship ,"Fire in the belly" impels one to be passionate. Paulo Cohelho's famous quote, "If you're passionate, the whole world will conspire to help you accomplish it" is only consequential. Can passion be taught ? Definitely, "No !". Neither it's a natural trait.That comes through circumstances like in the case of Steve Jobs or for that matter many who made it to FORBES list.
The moot point here isn't whether Entrepreneurship "Born or Acquired" - one or the other-but to say that one needs both to maximize odds for success as a successful entrepreneur ?!
The proverbial Chinese story of third century A.D. wherein the master sends the king's son to forest to teach him lessons of his life needed for a future ruler is apt and appropriate to unravel the mystery surrounding the question ,"Is an entrepreneur born, or can entrepreneurial skills be taught?" When applied to the context of establishing an enterprise mutatis mutandis, reveals that ' to hear the unspoken,to learn the untaught, to imbibe the unexpressed,to empathise with unmanifest,to know the unknowable ' are necessary traits/faculties of a successful entrepreneur.
(Abstract of a paper we're writing that dare addresses certain of the foregoing imponderables )
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From: M.V.K. Srinivasa Rao <mvskrao123@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2014 3:33 AM
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Do you believe the modified version of Pareto's principle holds?
The percent of success not just only one. it might be more than that. However, The result in MSME's sector in India is not encouraging. IF Dr. Subrata is correct, except that 1% , Rest of them(99%) along with all other unemployed must be employed some where to get their lively hood but it was not happened. Thus most of people in India, directly or indirectly are getting lively hood though unorganized MSME's in India after agriculture.
The main problem in India is govt attitude/definition towards MSME's needs to be changed. It must include unorganized sector also.
As far as academic programmes on this aspect is concerned, we can only teach and create awareness on the topic of entrepreneurship in small business in the minds of young people to the extent of only one per cent. Field trips, practical oriented teaching, continued internships, learn by doing along with work shops and seminars are the better alternatives to create better professional to do business ventures.Incubators have also to be set up exclusively to promote entrepreneurship in small business.
Prof. Dr. M.V.K. Sreenuvasa Rao
Principal, GITMS, Visakhapatnam.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Virendra Goel <goel.virendra@gmail.com> wrote:
If Mr. Vemuganti would recall, we had once started a drive to compile few stories of corporate and/or industrial failure and I had shared my own story but there was no further response.
Regards
Virendra Goel
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Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 7:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Do you believe the modified version of Pareto's principle holds?
99% of entrepreneurial ventures are not failures.
Absolutely not.
Around 5% are successful,5% are doing very well;
8 to 10% are doing well, 15 to 20 % are able to survive & carry on.
If 99% are failures, around 1 crore Indians will remain unemployed & India
would become another Argentina or Greece sometime ago.
It is around 60% of ventures which are failures.
Yes - Why they do fail? Can we stop this? What are the remedies ??
Not theoritical, what we teach to students of Entrepreneurship in PGDM/ MBA;
but from the practical angle.
If a person who started an enterprise has not taken off, where did he falter?
He must share - from horse"s mouth??
regards
Ramesh Vemuganti
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Dr.Subrata Chattopadhyay <subrata1chattopadhyay@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Prof. Datta,
With your
kind permission just thought to think aloud with the group. Would be
grateful if the learned members throw some light upon it.:
99 % of the entrepreneurial journeys are failures; 1% succeeds
........it needs to be scaled up to 20% for gaining industry
balance....So that 80% of the people can work in 20% of the
ventures....a modified version of Pareto's principle that I thought of
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