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Orientation sheet for Taste Entrepreneurship Movement

Team member: Select a team member with complimentary skills Product: Select a product that people understand need and will buy without much persuasion and has good profit margin Product/Service Development: Choose a product based on cheap sourcing, your skills and clear market need. Investment generation: Remember cash generates cash Pricing: Price a product that ensures good profit and is within buying capacity of target customer Place: Sell the product at a place where you can get multiple consumers at one go S trategy : Think hard on how you will you sell and follow it Negotiation: Negotiate from a position of strength not from a weakness Deal closing: Close a deal as soon as it serves your minimum threshold mark Reinvestment: Reinvest your profits in the same or new product, do not let cash be idle Marketing: Aid your product by catchy advertisement that catches people attention Medium: Sell product by all mediums available

Food & Entrepreneurship: An analogy

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Comparing cycling & entrepreneurship: a small video

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Skill Development in India-the untold story

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One guy had the vision, he was late C.K Prahlad ( bottom of Pyramid concept pioneer), in his speeches he talked about "I would like to see 500 million skilled technicians by 2022" ,the year India celebrates her 75th birthday. Nice Idea, nice gift . Sadly, we took not just the idea but also the visionary number. 500 million sounds like a cool number good to quote and write about.Manmohan Singh the erudite Prime minister loved it. It was an aspirational target, not thinking what will these 500 million people do, is local employment demand for it, will people move out to demand areas . At almost half way from 2010 to this 2022 vision, we have clear answers. The 500 million target was broken as below amongst  20+ ministries and the NSDC.   All this was good NSDC followed with skill gap surveys targeting areas of need but within the wrong framework provided. No one questioned this basic figure and here we were all wrong. NSDC was to be setup as a PPP but indu