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Presently, we are passing through a transition dynamical phase of global innovations and great surge of startups heralding a new

era of entrepreneurial revolution. New ventures, startups, registration of patents, emergence of new products and services,
technology licenses are at record high level than in the past. It is breaking all barriers of age, sex, nationality or economic status as
it now involving men and women, young and adults, rich and poor from all walks of life and backgrounds.

Entrepreneurship is defined as the process of value addition by bringing together various optimum and unique resource
combinations to exploit potential opportunities. An entrepreneur is an individual having far-sighted vision, the tenacity and
perseverance, the adaptability, and the passion to successfully implement an innovative and novel concept.

Entrepreneurs are dynamic game changers. They perceive risks in different way and are the dreamers and doers who see an
alternative better way and work against all odds to make that better way happen. Much of what can be learned from them involves
not so much about their idea, but the efforts and techniques of how they made it happen, how they overcame the pessimism,
obstacles and the negatives, how they found resources when there appeared to be none, how they brought along and inspired the
team, how they dealt with personal setbacks and ethical conflicts, and more regarding implementation and growth of their vision.

Google is best known for a very deceptively simple function searching most effectively, and more than an advertising platform,
although the vast majority of its ad--continues declining, Google is pursuing several projects that could reinvent the company--and
society at large. It is known for its breadth, ambition, and relentless spirit to keep creating the future.

Calico, a spin-off Google company is working to extend the human lifespan. Googles autonomous vehicles program, which
reached the 500,000 driver-free mile benchmark--incident-free. Google Fiber, which is bringing gigabyte Internet service to Austin,
Texas, and Provo, Utah, inspiring Los Angeles and Louisville, Kentucky, to follow. Glass, which is making wearables the next
computing trend. Shopping Express is an experiment in same-day delivery with national and local retailers.Google Now, which
reminds users when their favorite band or author has a new release and when the last train is leaving--before it is too late.

Bloomberg Philanthropies is among the largest foundations in the United States, but it distinguishes itself by using sophisticated,
data-driven solutions for every step of the process, from identifying priorities to monitoring progress to scaling pragmatic solutions.
As a result, the foundation has been extraordinarily effective. Bloomberg data wizards have ranked the top 10 global causes of
death. They having tried to focus on tobacco control as it addresses 60% of deaths on the list. And by concentrating on the countries
that together contained two-thirds of the world's smokers, Bloomberg positions itself for maximum impact.

The startup consumer-electronics company, Xiaomi, just three years old, is a novice no more. Xiaomi released four new smartphones
last year and sold almost 19 million, up more than 150% from 2012. It has captured a significant piece of the Chinese market with
its low-cost, feature-rich devices. One model sold out its initial run--100,000 units--in less than two minutes. Although founder Lei Jun
is reflexively compared to Steve Jobs, Jun's strategy is hardly the same as Apple's: He sells his phones--in buzz-generating flash
sales--at a razor-thin margin and then takes advantage of the longer potential revenue stream from software. Another difference:
Xiaomi actually shipped its smart TV in 2013. Last year, revenue at the Chinese startup hit $5.2 billion, another 150% bump, as
users downloaded more than 1 billion apps, helping the company generate revenue from paid apps, games, advertising, and other
fee-based services.

Dropbox doubled its users last year, from 100 million to 200 million. How? By constantly expanding itself into people's digital lives
(while fending off the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others). "We want you to be able to say, 'I know where all my information
is--it's in Dropbox. Everywhere I go, whatever device, whatever application, I know that I can pull things out of it,'" says product
manager Sean Lynch. That convenience is the result of several new tools, such as Saver and Chooser. These make it easy for any
app (Yahoo Mail is a big one) to integrate with Dropbox, letting users save or retrieve files directly through Dropbox. Its new
Datastore service syncs app data among multiple devices--meaning if you're playing a game on an iPad, you can switch over to a
smartphone and resume at the same point.

Netflix added its own innovative bravura to the cable-TV formula of growing through original programming, along the way
strengthening its business, creating new freedom for TV showrunners, and concreting binge-viewing into the cultural milieu.
Successfully applying a proven model in a new context is innovative. It has turned the TV network into an app, available on any
device. Every channel including Amazon and Yahoo, are now following.
Airbnb will indirectly usurp the InterContinental Hotels Group and Hilton Worldwide as the world's largest hotel chain without owning
a single hotel. The startup, which allows users to rent out their spare rooms or vacant homes to strangers, surpassed 10 million
stays on its platform last year, doubled its listings to 550,000 (in 192 countries), and, according to a source familiar with the
company's business, tripled revenue to an estimated $250 million.
Nike's most exciting new product last year wasn't a LeBron James sneaker . It was an app called Making that helps companies to
measure the environmental impact of using different materials--which made up approximately 60% of Nike's footprint and spurred
the creation of the app. The company also expanded its ambitious Launch program, which it created with NASA and the State
Department. Hundreds of prominent players in the materials ecosystem come together to discover, incubate, and accelerate
companies developing innovative materials to be used on a wide scale to address global issues in the space. "Sustainability can't be
just a single product line," says Jones. "It has to be across everything we do."

ZipDial issues the brand a number, which it prints on its ads. Consumers call, hang up, and get a text or call in return--and thus are
entered in contests, receive coupons, or place an order. California native Valerie Wagoner moved to Bangalore, is now responsible
for 416 million of them: That's how many times people have used her company, ZipDial, to connect with brands including Gillette,
Disney, Procter & Gamble, and IndiaInfoline.

Entrepreneurship is more than something one does at a point in time. It is a dynamic panorama of efforts of an entrepreneur whose
philosophy of life is to never rest but to make constant effort to innovate. The challenge to each person is to discover their own
entrepreneurial potential and uniqueness of their personality and find ways to capitalize on that potential. The challenge is to build
an entrepreneurial mindset that might include starting ventures, working for high growth ventures, taking over a family business,
entrepreneurship in a large company, and/or pursuing social and non-profit entrepreneurship.

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