Discover

The stage in which the entrepreneur

generates ideas, recognizes
opportunities, and studies the
market
Idea

Innovation Opportunity
 What is An Idea, Opportunity and
Innovation?

• An idea is a concept for a product or service that does not

exist or is not currently available in a market niche.
• In contrast, an opportunity is an idea for a new product or
service with a market that is willing to pay for that product
or service so that it can form the basis of a profitable
business.
• Innovation is the process of making changes to
something that adds value to customers.
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 What is an Opportunity?
An opportunity has four essential qualities

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 Three Ways to Identify an Opportunity

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 Entrepreneurial Process

• Generating Business Idea

• Opportunity recognition
• Environmental Scanning: Internal and External
• Feasibility Analysis
• Business Plan
• Preparing Project Report

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 Idea Generation

Where do I begin?

Fun

95% perspiration and 5% inspiration

‘Business is not about
the idea of power, but
the power of ideas’
•IDEA GENERATION is the creative
process of generating, developing, and
communicating new ideas.
 From Where the Good Idea
came????????
• Customer needs and wants are the logical place to start the
search for ideas.
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 Generating Ideas
Employees

Lead Users
Competitors
 Opportunity Recognition

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“It is useless to tell a river to stop running;
the best thing is to learn how to swim in
the direction it is flowing.”
-Anonymous
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Competitor Analysis

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 Format of a Project Report:

• 1. Cover Sheet
• 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
• 3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 4. THE BUSINESS
• 5. Funding Requirement
• 6. The Product or Services
 Format of a Project Report:

• 7. The Plan
a. Marketing Plan
b. Operational Plan
c. Organization Plan
d. Financial Plan
• 8. Critical Risks
• 9. Exit Strategy
• 10. Appendix
 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• The first impression about the business personal

 THE BUSINESS

• Details about the business concept

• Objective of the business

• A brief history about the past performance of the

company

• Form of ownership
 Legal Forms of Business
Three basic legal forms of business:

• Proprietorship - Single owner, unlimited liability, controls all decisions,

and receives all profits.

• Partnership - Two or more individuals having unlimited liability who

have pooled resources to own a business.

• Corporation - Most common form of corporation; regulated by statute;

treated as a separate legal entity for liability and tax purposes.
 Funding Requirement

• Investors & financial institutions

• A careful, well- planned funding requirement

should be documented.

• It is also necessary to project how these

requirements would be fulfilled.
 The Product/ Services

• Key features of product & the product range

 The Plan- Marketing Plan

• Marketing Mix strategies are to be drawn based on the market

research

• Taste, needs, habit of the customer – Marketing Segmentation and

Targeting

• Marketing mix strategies

• Budget
 Operational Plan

• Plant location & plant layout.

• Budget
 Organization Plan

• Responsibilities & duties amongst people in the

organization
• Information about board of directors
• Manpower plan
• Details about the laws that would be governed in
managing the employees of the organization
• Budget
 Financial Plan
• Two to five years for an existing company
• 1.Projected sales
• 2.Projected income & expenditure statement.
• 3.Projected breakeven point
• 4.Projected profit & loss statement
• 5.Projected balance sheet
• 6.Projected cash flows.
• 7.Projected fund flows.
• 8.Projected ratios
 Critical Risks

• The investors are interested in knowing the tentative risks

• Purpose- To evaluate the viability of the project & to

measure the risks involved in the business

• It give confidence to the investors as they can calculate the

risks involved
 Exit Strategy

• How the organization would be dissolved,

what would be the share of each
stakeholder in case of winding up of the
organization.
 Appendix
• The curriculum vitae of the owners, ownership agreement

• Certificate from pollution board

• Memorandum of understanding, article of association

• All the supporting agreements/documents that can help in marketing the

project viability at large.
 Essentials for Project Report

• 1. The project report should be sequentially arranged.

• 2. The project report should be covering all the details about the
proposed project.
• 3. The project report should not be very lengthy a subjective.
• 4. The project report should justify the financial needs and
financial projection.
• 5. The project report should also justify market prospects and
demands.
• 6. The project report should be attractive to the financial agencies
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 Bollant Industries

• Founder: Srikanth Bolla.

• Idea: Eco-friendly,
disposable consumer
packaging solutions
• Uniqueness: Employs
uneducated and disabled
employees

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• Being born blind was just
one part of the story. He
was also born poor

• They are raising $2-

million (around Rs 13
crores) in funding and
have already raised Rs 9
crores.
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• Project Management
Feasibility and Viability
analysis – Technical –
Financial – Network –
Appraisal and Evaluation

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 Feasibility study

• Feasibility study is an assessment of the practicality of a

proposed project.

• Preliminary evaluation of idea to determining if it’s

worth pursuing
• Provides more secure notion that a business idea is
viable

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• A feasibility study aims to objectively and rationally
uncover the strengths and weaknesses of an existing
business or proposed venture, opportunities and threats
present in the environment, the resources required to
carry through, and ultimately the prospects for success

• In its simplest terms, the two criteria to judge feasibility

are cost required and value to be attained.
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 Why to do feasibility Analysis

• Assess Economic Viability of Project

• Protects from large capital investment
• Outline ideas before implementation
• Presents associated risk and return
• Gives objective evaluation of project to lenders

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 Types of feasibility

• Economic
• Financial
• Technical
• Operational
• Managerial
• Marketing
 Economic feasibility

• The purpose of the economic feasibility assessment is to

determine the positive economic benefits to the
organization that the proposed system will provide.

• It includes quantification and identification of all the

benefits expected. This assessment typically involves a
cost/ benefits analysis.
 Technical feasibility

• This assessment is based on an outline design of system

requirements, to determine whether the company has the technical
expertise to handle completion of the project.
• The technical feasibility assessment is focused on gaining an
understanding of the present technical resources of the organization
and their applicability to the expected needs of the proposed system.
• It is an evaluation of the hardware and software and how it meets the
need of the proposed system
 Factors

• Material Inputs

• Manufacturing Process and Technology

• Plant Capacity

• Location

• Machinery and Procurement

 Financial Feasibility

• Capital requirements
• Financial rate of return
• Overall attractiveness of the investment

• Sources of Financing the project

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 Marketing

• Demand

• Supply

• Distribution

• Prices
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 Marketing

• Demand: Bobba estimates the in-home health care sector

to be growing at 25-30 per cent compounded annually. It
will be a $100-billion market in 15-20 years, he says.

• Prices: It provides post-surgery care and senior care using

high-end technology. Among the healthcare packages is a
~9,999 scheme for individuals, including a visits by
doctors and services including blood pressure, sugar
checks and email consultations.
• Supply and Distribution: Here, there are no operating
beds and there’s no real estate. It is about last-mile
delivery. It’s about remote patient care

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 Factors

• Marketing Potential

• Competitors

• Cost of Project

• Economic Trends
 Managerial Feasibility

• Purpose: determine if business has sufficient skills/resources

to bring product/service to market successfully

• Non-financial factors important to consider here

• 2 primary issues to consider:
1. Management prowess
2. Resource sufficiency
 Importance of Feasibility Analysis

• Understanding Demand

• Assessing resources

• Marketing feasibility

• Marking a Time line

 Project Management

• Discipline of planning, organizing and managing

resources to bring about the successful combination of
specific project goals and objectives
 Some major issues

• Product Quality

• Risk

• Cost

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 Story of Entrepreneur

• Startup is like jumping off the cliff and then building a

parachute before you hit the ground.

• Tried with website for alumni for collaborate, help and

connect with friends but it was very costly project

• The experimented with website for vocational training in

city and review for it and make board with friend 62
• Took nearly a month

• Website offers the course, review, location, demo lecture

etc.

• Got order from 10 colleges for the startup

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• Focus shifted from Great product to generating revenues.

• Validation from Student: Zero

• No one cared about the same

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• Promoted through college festival and web traffic
increased by 300% but no one opted

• Promoted through advertisement and heavy discounts but

got only 11 applicants

• Students bypassed them and gone for group discounts ,

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 Learning

• Plan and Validate

• Find a great founder
• Don’t fall in love with prototype
• Define your end user
• Advertising is bad option
• Don’t run after review

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 Resourcing

The stage in which the entrepreneur

identifies and acquires the
financial, human, capital and
material resources needed for the
venture startup, etc

Start-up resources
 Financial Mobilization

• Cash Flow Challenges

• Capital Investments
• Lengthy Product Development Cycles

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 Source of Fund

• Short Term

• Long Term

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 Human Resource Mobilization

• Helps in achievements of organization goals

• Employ skills and abilities of workforce efficiency
• Ethical and Social needs of society
• Maintain Quality of Work life

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 Material Mobilization

• Two Categories

• Raw material to produce goods and services

• Managing the administration

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 Resourcing
Apply for loans,
grants and
assistance

Identify potential
investors

Hire
employees
 Basic Start Up Problems

• Poor Planning
• Lack of Govt. Support
• Ineffective advertising
• Fund raising issues
• Location
• Poor Industry Knowledge
• Expansion beyond resources
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 Basic Start Up Problems

• Legal Problems
• Poor Management Skills
• Inability to forecast demand
• Lack of Technical competence

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