Setting up a Business Entity: A Guide for Indian Entrepreneurs

Course Overview :This course aims to helps participants develop a thorough business plan from the idea generation to incubation enabling a connect with real-time mentors for counseling and guidance and finally culminating into an opportunity of a business plan competition. Thus it completes a full circle with a participant being able to pitch their real time filtered ideas and business plan to a probable investor for getting funded and building a startup. This course is also unique and different as it enables the learners to learn through mentors, facilitators and peers all at one time and helps them resolve their queries. Students, entrepreneurs, homemakers and aspiring small business people can engage through the course and take its benefit with better understanding on the startup Eco system.Objectives : 1. To define the concept of Entrepreneurs, and Intrapreneurs and classify the different types of businesses.2. To identify market gaps, develop solutions through ideation and translate them into concrete business ideas.3. To identify the role of different incubators and EDP's.4. To identify the legal and ethical foundations for startups, and start up financing.

Week 1: Concept of Entrepreneurs, and Intrapreneurs
Week 2: Classification of the different kinds of businesses
Week 3: Role of different incubators and EDP’s
Week 4: Role of Entrepreneurial Development Programs (EDP)
Week 5: Setting up of business entities
Week 6: Legal Issues in Entrepreneurship
Week 7: Goods and Services Tax (GST) Registration
Week 8: Startup funding

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