Entrepreneurship

Starting and running a business: ideas, theories, funding, challenges and the Indian startup ecosystem.

Shop owner selling a fair, quality product with after-sales service, illustrating responsibility to customers
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An entrepreneur’s duties to customers are to charge fair prices, supply standard, well-packed and unadulterated goods with correct

Employer giving fair pay in a safe workplace, illustrating responsibility towards employees
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs owe their employees fair and attractive pay, the right job for their skills, job security, safe and

Business owner presenting a report to shareholders with safe and dividend icons
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Quick answer: Towards owners or shareholders, an entrepreneur must keep invested capital safe, pay fair and timely dividends, treat all

Entrepreneur steering a ship wheel surrounded by gears, growth chart and shield
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: An entrepreneur’s responsibility towards the business itself is to keep it efficient, solvent and growing. That means managing

Business owner and community linked by a two-way bridge of trust, illustrating social responsibility
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Entrepreneurs’ social responsibility is a universal, continuous and two-way relationship between business and society. It links business activities

Idea lightbulb trapped behind a wall of fear and rules, illustrating barriers to creativity
Entrepreneurship

Quick answer: Barriers to creativity in entrepreneurship fall into three groups. Personal: fear of failure, fear of ridicule, self-doubt, fixed

Creative idea turning into a working product, illustrating creativity versus innovation
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Quick answer: Creativity is generating new and useful ideas; innovation is turning those ideas into products, services or processes people

Creative team brainstorming with sticky notes and a suggestion box, illustrating creativity in entrepreneurship
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Quick answer: Creativity in a business grows when the entrepreneur and the workplace support it. Key elements are clear goals

Entrepreneur painting new product ideas that become a shop window
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Quick answer: Creativity lets an entrepreneur stand out in crowded markets, launch new products, solve complex problems, adapt to change

Creative person in a studio surrounded by sketches and ideas, illustrating qualities of a creative person
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Quick answer: Highly creative people are imaginative, alert and curious, good at combining ideas, open-minded and flexible in thinking, knowledgeable