The Five Biggest Factors Challenging Start-ups in Nepal

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478)

This paper aims to develop a critical approach to the conceptualization of start-ups in emerging markets from a Kenyan perspective. This study used a theoretical route to conceptualize start-ups in emerging markets like Kenya. From the findings, it is important to note that the conceptualization of start-up is based on western concepts and might be flawed and poorly applicable to businesses in Kenya. Hence in the Kenyan context, a start-up should be viewed as an innovative business entity, which is scalable and has survived up to 3-5 years. To support the growth of the start-up ecosystem in Kenya, policymakers should promote start-ups through the formation of relevant legislation and provide incentives that stimulate their survival and growth. The study has brought out some interesting findings which can generate more debate. The study used an exploratory research design which is not conclusive in nature therefore future research should consider using a research design that is concl...

International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), 2018

In 2016, Prime Minister launched Start-up India mission in 2016 for the vision of discovering that the India become next big start-up Nation. Never seen in the history of India, so many dominant forces have gathered together to promote Start-ups and facilitate them to prosper globally. In the past few years, the Indian Start-up ecosystem has seen a mammoth growth, despite several roadblocks, adoption of play-to-win approach by the young and enthusiastic entrepreneurs was all time high. Start-ups are essentially of two kinds. One that starts something ground up, something that no one has thought about and is often ground breaking. Very complex to create this type of start-ups but once established often sees extraordinary growth. The second kind of Start-ups that we see around us is primarily the ones that do not want to reinvent the wheel. For making something new and innovative they are adding old sauce to new dish. Whatever may be the kind of Start-up, Indian Start-ups face its own set of challenges and some stellar opportunities. The present paper discusses about the Challenges and Opportunities faced by the First Generation Entrepreneurs at length.

Nepalese Journal of Management Science and Research

Start-up Entrepreneurship is crucial for the promotion of research, innovative systems, and self-employment. Entrepreneurs with high potential and calibre are scarce and precious human resources for the country. This paper examines the role played by the Indian start-ups for innovation and economic development, opportunities, and challenges considering start up survival. This research is descriptive in nature, we have studied the need, significance, and impact of start-ups on economic and innovation development, and also will investigate the causes and obstacles of the start-ups in India. Our analysis uses statistical techniques to examine the start-ups as the major success factor for an entrepreneur in India. We have evaluated the positive impact of start-ups on the economic and innovation development of the nation. There were larger policy implications for the promotion of this important sector. Start-ups are basically open organizations, certainly engaged in innovation processes....

A startup is created company, partnership, or venture that aims to quickly expand an innovative business concept. A startup is a young, up-and-coming firm that takes a proactive toward creating a lucrative business model. An MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is a prototype used by startups to test and refine their fresh ideas and approaches to doing business. In addition, the company's founders engage in extensive studies and surveys to learn more about emerging ideas, technology, industry trends, and commercial opportunities. To affirm the ownership, dedication, and contributions of founders and investors, a shareholder agreement needed to be agreed upon early on. The main aim of the research was to understand the start-ups and their significance and to measure the awareness level among young people about the Startup India-Progress towards Development and Harnessing Innovation highlights and to study the performance of startups as well as the role of various stakeholders. The research was undertaken in the month of October 2022. It is descriptive in character nature. A convenient sampling technique is used for the study with 150 participants as the sample size. People between the ages of 25 and 45 who express an interest in starting their own businesses are given preferential treatment. Google Forms were used for the collection of information from them.

ABSTRACT Background Start-up’s and Start-up Villages are playing a prominent role in the field of value creation and value addition where the villages act as an Incubator- Facilitating, Generating, Developing and Promoting of Entrepreneurship Culture .A Nation where the youth comprises of major composition, it is the next generation for the world .If proper basements are provided they could tend to create high tech value added product for the upcoming global consumers. The current study has been undertaken to know the prospects and problems of Start-ups in Kerala with special reference to Cochin Start-up village. For the purpose of study,30 respondents were selected as samples by adopting convenience sampling method. Analysis was done via statistical software 17.0.independent sample t -test and rank test were used .The data analysis revealed Majority of the start ups were incorporated by male dominance showing high gender disparity, incorporations were done in corporate form of which majority were registered to female. Majority of the start-ups were engaged in B2B business,with education backing from science discipline ,it took nearly one year for companies to come up with a feasible product market fit, though modern source of favourable funding schemes were available Start -ups mainly depended on own fund, start-ups gave prominent importance to service they deal with and the major problem faced by the start-ups are lack of Return Over Time and Fund Deployed ,Poor Mentoring, Poor Product Market Fit with least problems with funding and Infrastructure. Keywords: Start-up , Start-up Village , Prospects ,Product Market Fit ,Mentoring ,Angel funding ,Crowd Funding ,Seed Capital.

India is the second largest populous country in the world and it have more youth power than other countries and at the same time it have more unemployment rate, its unemployment rate is 3.43% which is huge when compared with its population. To control this unemployment our honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a step to eradicate unemployment, and initiated a campaign Start up India. This is an action plan in this Banks will finance for start-up ventures. It is organised by Department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP). There are various schemes available under this and the person with innovative ideas, will be benefited by this scheme. This creates an employment opportunity for many job seekers. Start-up India is launched in the year 2016, and by 2025 unemployment rate will come down to half because this creates many job opportunities. And this will improve our economic growth of our country. Many small and new entrepreneurs will be benefitted by this. Soft bank which has a headquarters in Japan had invested 2 billion US dollars for this. Our prime minister has requested all banks to support for this scheme. All the states in India were performing well in supporting start-ups, southern states shown great performance than other states. This paper highlights on the growth of tech based, non tech based, new business start-ups and number of days for setting up a new business, corporate tax rate and bank lending rate for start-ups in India compared to other countries. It also discusses about various schemes operating under Star-up India and their performance in the economy.

Cognizance Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies (CJMS), 2024

Nepal’s renewable energy sector comprises both successful and subsistence entrepreneurs. In this connection, the enduring question arises of how successful entrepreneurs have something special in Nepal’s biogas sector. The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of financial capital, social capital, and human capital on entrepreneurial success in the context of the biogas sector in Nepal. The study adopts a causal-comparative research design using primary data. The necessary data were collected using a structured questionnaire on a sample of 33 biogas companies having 63 respondents. The collected data were analyzed by estimating econometric models and correlation analysis through IBM SPSS statistics. The study reveals that a strong role is played by experience, education, initial investment, access to finance, and network ties in determining entrepreneurial success while a weak role is played by trust and shared vision. Thus, this study is useful for biogas companies, development actors, academia, and policymakers for more sector commercialization and creating a conducive enabling environment by formulating entrepreneur-friendly policies for the sector. The study can be extended by conducting a detailed analysis of sector-wise comparison of renewable energy enterprises to find out widespread results for the sectors and their actors.

Hypatia, 2023

In recent years, feminist scholarship on emotional labor has proliferated. I identify a related but distinct form of care labor, hermeneutic labor. Hermeneutic labor is the burdensome activity of: understanding and coherently expressing one's own feelings, desires, intentions, and movitations; discerning those of others; and inventing solutions for relational issues arising from interpersonal tensions. I argue that hermeneutic labor disproportionately falls on women's shoulders in heteropatriachal societies, especially in intimate relationships between women and men. I also suggest that some of the gendered burdens of emotional labor that feminist scholars point out would better be described as hermeneutic labor. Drawing on feminist philosophy as well as findings from social psychology and sociology, I argue that the exploitation of women's hermeneutic labor is a pervasive element of what Sandra Bartky calls the 'micropolitics' of intimate relationships. The widespread expectation that women are relationship maintenance experts, as well as the prevalence of a gendered demand-withdraw pattern of communication, leads an exploitative situation to appear natural or even desirable, even as it leads to women's dissatisfaction. This situation may be considered misogynistic in Kate Manne's sense, where misogyny is a property of social environments rather than a worldview.