How Do I Build My Business

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How do I build my Business?
Some Ideas and Approaches
K. Kumar
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Empowering Women and People with
Disabilities through Entrepreneurship
Education
Australia Award Fellowship Program

University of Sydney
30 November2015
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Successful
Entrepreneurship
Customer
Needs

Personal
Satisfaction

Economic
Feasibility

Successful Entrepreneurship
(Stevenson and Spence, 2007)

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Venture Formula
• Idea = anything + you
• Opportunity = idea + action
• Action = f(Interaction) on Money, Product,
Partners…
• Viable Venture = Opportunity +
Commitment
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Causal and Effectual Logic

Effectual Logic helps in dealing with
uncertainty surrounding new ventures
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Principles of Effectuation*
• Patchwork quilt
– versus jigsaw puzzle

• Affordable loss
– versus expected return

• Bird-in-hand
– versus opportunity cost analysis; or competitive
analyses

• Lemonade
– versus avoiding contingencies, but leveraging them

• Pilot-in-the-plane
– Non-predictive control

*Source: Saras Sarasvathy

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What is learnable in
entrepreneurship?
Study the Expert
Entrepreneurs helped identify 5 principles

Pilot in
Bird
Affordable
Lemonade
Crazy-Quilt
in Hand
thePrinciple
Loss
Plane
Principle
Principle
Principle
– Control
--Leverage
-Form
Start
- Set
vs
partnerships 
with
Prediction If
affordable
contingencies 
your means. 
Form
loss 
you partnerships
Embrace
Evaluate
can
Don't
control
wait
surprises
for
with
the
perfect
opportunities
that
people
arise
and
opportunity.
from
organizations
based
uncertain
Start
on whether
situations,
willing
takingtothe
action,
topredict
make
downside
remaining
based
awhat
realis
on
flexible
commitment
acceptable,
what
rather
you have
rather
to
than
jointly
readily
tethered
than
creating
on
the
to
something,
you
don’t
need
the
future
would
look
like.
the future--product,
available:
attractiveness
existing
goals.
who of
you
the
are,
firm,
predicted
what
market--with
you
upside.
know,you.
andDon't
who you
worry
know.
so much about
competitive analyses and strategic planning.
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Causal vs Effectual
• View of future
– Future can be reliably predicted
– Future cannot be reliably predicted
because of uncertainty

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Causal vs Effectual…
• Where to start
– With given goals and readily available
means
– Subject to resource constraints (WWW)

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Causal vs Effectual…

• Basis for taking action
– Focus on optimal scenarios
– Do the doable (and then start pushing it)
• Seek feedback and learn from mistakes.
Iterate.

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Causal vs Effectual…

• Attitude towards risk
– Expected return
– Affordable loss (where failure is
survivable)

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Causal vs Effectual…

• Attitude towards others
– Competitive or transactional
– Co-creational (with customers, suppliers,
or competitors)

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Causal vs Effectual…

• Attitude towards unexpected
– Avoid surprises
– Leverage surprises as sources of new
opportunities and innovation

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Causal vs Effectual…

• Underlying logic
– To the extent we can predict the future
we can control it
– To the extent we can control the future
we need not predict it

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Managerial Questions for Facing
Uncertainty
Risky
Situation

Uncertain
Situation

Managerial
Question

1. Where to
start?

Set a goal

Assess your
means

Have you
made an
inventory of
your means?

2. Basis for
action

Should

Can

Have you
played around
with
possibilities?

3. Attitude
towards risk,
return and
resources

Calculate
expected
return

Set
affordable
loss

Have you
come to grips
with worst
case scenario

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Managerial Questions for Facing
Uncertainty
Risky
Situation

Uncertain
Situation

Managerial
Question

4. Attitude
toward
others

Perform
competitive
analysis

Form
partnerships

Who can and who
wants to help you
create the
opportunity?

5. Attitude
toward the
unexpecte
d

Avoid
surprises

Leverage
surprises

Are you creating
corridors for
positive surprises?

6. Attitude
towards
future

Predictive

Effectual

Is your
environment stable
enough so that you
can rely on past
data to formulate
future actions?
How will you know
? Measure?

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References

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References
• Sarasvathy, S (2009). What makes
entrepreneurs entrepreneurial?
University of Virginia Note (UVA-ENT0065)
• Slides Courtesy- Saras Sarasvathy,
Suresh Bhagavatula and B.S.
Sachidananda

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