...• Summary of the Case: Tommy Miah the name itself explains the person very nicely. Today Tommy Miah has become a brand name, whenever we hear the name first thing we recognize is food. This became possible only for the true entrepreneurial effort given by Mr. Tommy Miah, as we know that he believes in a slogan “Hard work, more hard work and marketing”. This great man is a gift to Bangladesh form a historical place of Bangladesh, The place is Maulvibazar which is positioned in Sylhet, 1959 was the year when this living legend was born. So the root of Mr. Tommy Miah is Bangladesh, he got the opportunity to migrate himself to another historical place of the world popularly known as Britain. The foundation base of cooking mania was actually a gift from his mother, when Mr. Tommy was young considerably a kid, he got the opportunity to get informal training from his mother so that was the starting of the journey now he is a celebrity chef of Britain. At the age of sixteen he got married to Rina Miah, only courageous people can take such decision. Getting married only at the age of sixteen is not a matter of joke. Now he has three children’s even grandchildren’s. Tommy got a job in one of Birmingham's many Indian restaurants as a kitchen porter, washing pots and pans. Back in his kitchen he kept on practicing and perfecting the dishes he learned from observing his master chefs at the workplace. Tommy Miah first started a conventional and restaurant in Birmingham's Broad Street...
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...------------------------------------------------- Myth 5: Entrepreneurs Must Fit the "Profile" Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship: An Introduction It is not easy to give a particular answer to the question: Why do people want to start and run independent businesses? Different answers may come from different people. Some people may start a business just because they love independence and hate to tolerate bossing in the jobs. Some may not have the capability and qualification to do a job and as job is not available to them, they go for independent businesses in order to survive. Some may have some special skills and love challenges to run an independent business. Several motivational factors like need for affiliation, need for power and need for achievement (McClelland, 1961) are also responsible for going for an independent business. Murthy, et al (1986) found that entrepreneurs are motivated to start a business because of the factors like ambitious factors, compelling factors and facilitating factors. Whatever may be the reason, it can be said that in most of the times of the history of human civilization, there were entrepreneurs who did independent businesses and this trend of history still continues. For the last few decades in all over the world, entrepreneurs are regarded as value adding people to the society. Holt (1992) says, “The term entrepreneur may be properly applied to those who incubate new ideas, start enterprises based on those ideas, and provide added value...
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