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I run an IT Security consulting firm based out of India. We started off from scratch in 2001 when I was 21, and have offices in Mumbai, Bahrain, and UAE. The idea behind the blog is to share the stories of how we run the business, the deals we make, the deals that break, the heartburn, and the sheer joy.

The Ultimate Startup Guide

The Ultimate Startup Guide is an e-book that provides answers to all your questions related to starting and growing a business in India. Everything you wanted to know about entrepreneurship in India from ideation to registration to marketing to hiring. The book contains a large number of practical examples, anecdotes, interviews, and motivational material to help you get started, and to grow rapidly in a booming Indian economy. If you've got the idea, this book will help you through with the execution and realize your dreams. Here are some of the key questions you will find answered in this book:
  • When starting a business, what are the legal issues involved?
  • What form of incorporation is better suited to which type of business?
  • What tax issues are involved?
  • How do I start a business and what are the pitfalls?
  • How do I market my business in the absence of significant funding?
  • How do I get funded?
  • What are the basic accounting concepts I should be aware of?
  • What is a business plan and how should I build one?
The brief table of contents of the book is as follows:
  1. Getting started
  2. Ideation
  3. Forms of Enterprises
  4. Funding
  5. Basic Accounting and Taxation
  6. Import and Export Licensing
  7. Trademark and Patenting
  8. Rules for NRIs and Foreigners
  9. Building a Business Plan
  10. Marketing on a Shoestring
  11. Website and Branding
  12. Women Entrepreneurs
  13. Templates
To order the Ultimate Startup Guide - email me at kkmookhey@gmail.com.

Details of the book are:
Title: The Ultimate Startup Guide
Author: Kanwal Mookhey
Pages: 150
Additional: Companion CD contains numerous templates for building your business plan, calculating cashflow, preparing profit and loss, and balance sheets, preparing invoices, your resume and profile, marketing material, websites, contracts, and many other useful and motivational material.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Entrepreneurship courses in India

Can they teach you how to be an entrepreneur? Apparently, yes. :) I do wonder what the courses actually do cover, but there's been some interest on this subject. So here's a roundup of some of the institutes around the country that have entrepreneurship courses:

  • Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. This seems quite promising, though haven't heard from anyone about it earlier. These guys offer a post-graduate diploma in entrepreneurship management.
  • Almost all the IIM's have courses on entrepreneurship and they get a full house too. I am not sure what the eligibility criteria is to get into one of these courses. IIM Bangalore also has the N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) - a catalyst for entrepreneurial activity. IIMB's program is in collaboration with Universitas 21 Global. IIM Calcutta has the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. IIM Lucknow as well has a Centre for Entrepreneur Development and New Venture Management.
  • FICCI has a course on entrepreneurship too. Eligibility criteria is graduate/diploma with at least 3 years of experience.
  • National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), Delhi has a 6 month course.
Here's a slightly old, but relevant article on Businessworld on entrepreneurship courses in business schools.

Posted by Kanwal K Mookhey at 6:40 AM

5 comments:

Pnk Guru said...

Dear Every day Entrepreneur,

I am happy to see such a blog. Really rare to see a useful blog of this kind.

You will also be interested to see my blog in which I do try to help youth and women to enter into small business ventures with an innovative strategy.

With regards
pnkguru@yahoo.com

2:48 AM
Kanwal K Mookhey said...

Hey there. Checked out your blog. Looks like a good start. If you have any success stories with helping people set up their enterprises, especially women entrepreneurs, please do let me know.

4:11 AM
Ritesh Bhatia said...

SPJIMR also offers such a course "the Start Your Business" program. It's a 16 weekend program divided into 4 modules.

5:04 PM
Unknown said...

hi, i am hitesh from surat. i have been with my fathers business since las 7 yrs and now i want to do a course in intrepreneurship. i hope that this will help me. but i dont have any degree so can you suggest me some organizations or institutions who teach entrepreneurship, even if i don have any bachelors degree.
regards,
hitesh.

2:45 AM
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