Identification and Analysis of Characteristic Required by Women Entrepreneur

M. W. Nagardhane, M. S. Gondane, P. A. Borkar, H. M. Shukla

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Abstract
Entrepreneurs in the country play a vital role in the overall development of the country. This project basically focuses on the study of several characteristics required for women to become entrepreneurs. This project is mainly executed in many steps the first one involved selection criteria for the women entrepreneurs. Second one was personal visit to for knowing their personal details of an entrepreneur. The questionnaire we prepared covered four aspects analytical, communication, Team work and leadership. The third step involved getting filled a set of questionnaire by selected women entrepreneurs. Finally the output obtained from the questionnaire was taken as an input for entrepreneurial aptitude test software(EAT).The result obtained from the test we obtained the percentage of women to become an entrepreneur. Propose of this empirical study is intended to find out various motivating and de-motivating internal and external factors of women entrepreneurship. Majority of the educated woman entrepreneurs having qualities such as accepts challengers, ambitious, enthusiastic, hard-working, skillful, etc. Software in VB.NET is also developed to analyze the data and tabulate the results conclusion related to the entrepreneurial characteristics were drawn based on the analysis of result.

Keywords: characteristic, entrepreneur, function, software, women entrepreneur

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/ijosct.v1i1.71

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