Global Entrepreneurship Week

About the Week

in 2013, Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place between 18 - 24 November, and the theme is "Take A Step Forward ''

Originally posted by: SEETHA.K

Countries all around the world are joining together to carry the banner of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative aimed at [young] people everywhere.

1. An unwavering passion.

Being an entrepreneur demands commitment and dedication -- more than most jobs do.
If you find something you love enough to want to share it with others, that love will fuel and give you purpose

.2. Open-mindedness

The most successful entrepreneurs never forget how much they can learn from others. They ask for advice!
Fear of failure can make it easy to grip onto your vision with an iron fist, but rigidity won't serve you.

3. The desire to be an expert

Entrepreneurs like challenges. Knowing what's been done before can help you identify how it can and should move forward. In the meantime, you'll build a network of relationships to support you in future endeavours, especially when times are lean. Those relationships are invaluable.
4. A forward-looking approach

Successful entrepreneurs are always thinking ahead!Your goals may be constantly evolving, but if you don't know where you want to go, chances are, you won't get anywhere.

5. A constant flow of ideas

Having one project that's doing well is great. But the successful entrepreneurs don't rest on their laurels. Instead, they're constantly asking themselves, "What's next?" They understand that being a successful entrepreneur is a lifestyle choice, not a destination.

Embrace these qualities and you will become a better entrepreneur.

Global Entrepreneurship Week

In the past few decades women have taken rapid strides in every field one could imagine. Women have held the highest offices in the country and have served with dignity and success. They have persevered in the roughest and most demanding of professions and achieved results which have surprised the whole world. India has many women Entrepreneurs who have proved their mettle and have taken the whole country by storm.

Women have been successful in the entertainment and fashion industries for a long time. But today, the likes of Kiran Majumdar Shaw (CEO of Biocon, India), Neelam Dhawan (MD, Microsoft, India), Niana Lal Kidwai (head of HSBC in India) and others of their ilk rub shoulders with men in board rooms and are continuously proving that women are and can be as successful as men !

Kiran Mazumdar ShawKiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the Chairman & Managing Director of Biocon Limited a biotechnology company based in Bangalore !

Her pioneering work in the sector has earned her several awards, including the prestigious Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005) from the government of India. She was recently named among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. She is on the Forbes list of the world's 100 most powerful women and the Financial Times' top 50 women in business list She is also a member of the board of governors of the prestigious Indian School of Business and Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

Swati ParimalSwati A. Piramal is the Vice Chairperson of Piramal Life Sciences Limited and Director of Piramal Healthcare Limited. Dr. Piramal received one of India's highest civilian honour's, the Padmashri award, by the President of India, Ms. Pratibha Patil on 4th April, 2012 She has been nominated as one of the 25 Most Powerful Business Women in India eight times and is now a member of the Hall of Fame of the Most Powerful Women. She was the first woman in 90 years to head the Apex Chamber of Commerce ASSOCHAM in 2009 - 10. She has contributed towards innovations in Public Health Services and other projects. She has been a part of public policy related to health care which led to major policy changes that help reduce the spread of life-threatening diseases !

Dr. Swati Piramal has been elected as a member of the most prestigious and the oldest boards in the world - The Harvard Board Of Overseers. She is one of the five new Overseers elected to the board for a six-year term. The Harvard Board Of Overseers is more than 350 years old. President John F. Kennedy served on the board in 1957.

Radhika RoyRadhika Roy is an Indian media baron and co Chairperson and Managing Director, NDTV. Radhika Roy has over ten years of experience in print journalism, with leading publications such as "Indian Express" and "India Today". In the mid-80s, she co-founded NDTV. Radhika has won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Information, Communication and Entertainment in the year 2003. Radhika Roy married Prannoy Roy in 1972 and they have a daughter Tara RoyRadhika is the sister of a Rajya Sabha member and CPI (M) politician, Brinda Karat. A media titan in her native India, Radhika Roy is a former speech pathologist who pursued her dream of becoming a journalist and transformed a garage-startup production company into an internationally renowned news operation comprising three channels and over 1,000 employees, Roy"cofounder, co-owner, and managing director of New Delhi Television (NDTV)"has consistently demonstrated that empires can be built without sacrificing principles. Together with her husband, Prannoy, she has galvanized Indian television, with such accomplishments as breaking the government's hold on television news by founding the country's first privately owned news channel!

Great women of india has proved that they can do their best to get on the top of the world !! As a woman I am so proud of them,it is an inspiration to come many of the entrepreneurs in future... !!

Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior