Etsy: Breaking Down a Business Mode Etsy is an e-commerce site that emphases on vintage, handmade and exclusive factory-made products. These items comprise of a variety of products such as furniture, kitchen gadgets, clothing, art, housewares and jewellery. The site website is similar to an open craft fair, where sellers primarily local artisans and small merchants set up an Etsy store and they then sell their products to customers who are composed of individuals who want to purchase unique, typically handmade products from local or small manufacturers. The website was launched in 2005, and by 2013, it had attracted more than 30 million buyers, and approximately one million sellers were registered on the platform. The idea of creating such a platform originated in a woodworking shop. Rob Kalin had graduated from a college with a degree in the classics. However, they avoided the traditional job market to concentrate on his woodworking talents (Barringer & Ireland, 2015). He created a unique product which was a computer enclosed in wood, but he could find a suitable market to sell his product. Therefore,…

Demographic and Cultural Dimensions of Globalization – Should we categorize economic migrants in the same way that we categorize traditionally are refugees fleeing war or persecution? Yes, in globalization, interaction among the people helps to improve the cultural values and standards of different ethnicities. The migrants and the refugees come from different countries, and through their integration, international trade and investments increase. The collaboration among the migrants and the refugees helps fight against ethnicity and tribalism in the society, for they must collaborate effectively to derive a natural labor force together, which helps to improve the economic growth of the community. Interaction of different people leads to an improvement in technology since they have different skills which they share to promote the economic growth of the society, Tatli, Vassilopoulou, & Surgevil, (2013). This integration will improve the behavioral values of different cultures, and hence the entrepreneurship of different nations through trade will grow globally. – Why or why not? It’s a benefit for the hosting nation since the Migrants and the refugees will interact together to earn a living for…

my fondest memory growing up One of my fondest memory growing up was my grandfather narrating his favourite anecdotes. From expressing his adulation for the iconic architect – Walter Griffin, who designed some of the landmark buildings in Lucknow, to rejoicing over the grilling interview with Late Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shashtri on the ongoing anti-Hindi agitation. My grandfather retired as the editor of a leading Indian newspaper – The Pioneer,he frequently quizzed us on the stories of the day. In his early nineties, his eyes would light up when he narrated the turbulent times of the twentieth century when India was a British colony to the governance challenges of the twenty first century.   Of the many experiences that he shared with me, his story of the time when emergency was declared in India by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1975 remains etched in my mind. The rise of the judges such as Chief Justices MC Chagla, JC Shah and Narendra Nathwani against the preventive detention faced by the opposition leaders, to save the basic fibre of democracy,…

approaches to creativity and innovation Australia and China Creativity and innovation are essential in ensuring that there is harmony, sustainable development, and innovation in technology because it is evident in individual activities at diverse levels. Various studies help in recognizing and building up creativity. However, these studies are inaccessible due to the different approaches used. Creativity is a crucial product of human culture because it is an instrument for stirring culture and has an intimate but complicated relationship with culture. For this reason, creativity is inherent to culture. This essay integrates cross-cultural research to investigate the various approaches that different national cultures China uses to creativity and innovation. At the same time, individualist nations like Australia value individual goals and interests. China mainly focuses on reforming the education sector in different universities and vocational training centers. On the other hand, Australia focuses on communication, demonstration of innovative ideas, and partnerships in establishing the culture of creativity and innovation. This study is essential in understanding their different approaches to creativity and innovation and how they affect the level of innovation in…

The entrepreneurship case study The entrepreneur in this case study is Evan Williams. Evan Williams is an internet entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Twitter. He is currently a board member of Twitter. He worked at Google before exiting to channel his entrepreneurship abilities to Odeo. Evan Williams was a major investor in Odeo, which is a podcasting platform founded by Noah Glass. When Evan joined the Odeo team, he was given the ‘founder’ title because he invested a substantial percentage of the funds needed for the business. Odeo was created with the vision to become the foremost podcasting website in the world. It was supposed to be the go-to platform for everything related to forecasting with features like a download client for downloading podcasts, a massive directory for discovering podcasts, podcast creation software, syndicated episodes, partnerships with major content publishers, playlist creation, channel creation, personalized recommendations and more. After Evan Williams joined Odeo, two other people that will go on to found Twitter joined the Odeo team. Odeo launched in 2005 but was sold to Sonic Mountain in…

Rhetorical figure Christine de Pizan Christine de Pizan was a French writer born in 1364 in Venice, Italy, and died in 1430 (Smith, 2008). She was an author and poet whose works include numerous poems of courtly love, different works championing women, and a biography of Charles V. She was married at 15 and widowed after ten years, where she took writing to support herself and her three children. Canonical rhetorical history has offered an opportunity to represent the experience of powerful males and males, with no place for women. However, the current study of rhetoricians provides an opportunity for the contributions of women to participate in the development of their culture even when they were denied the opportunity to speak (Brabant, 2019).  Christine de Pizan is essential in the history of rhetoric because she cultivated rhetorical skills, which offered her the chance to talk about cultural concerns as well as the presentation of ideas for altering the interests (Smith, 2008). Besides, she contributed to the understanding of agency and women majorly in the medieval era. First, she was able…

Discussion Post: Week 3 Cultural Environments Organizational cultures play a significant role in the success of every business at large. The speaker in the video provided in the discussion ‘why a business needs a new global culture,” categorically states that business is people. This reveals that for the achievement of its set goals, an organization must interact healthily with the surrounding as well as the internal community. The internal community in a business entails the employee and the management whiles the external or surrounding is comprised of customers and the immediate society where the firm is situated. All the components of a business must communicate effectively for a common goal (Daniels, Radebaugh & Sullivan, 2015). The company’s culture guides this as it has a first-hand impact on its running. Cultural differences in the context of the organizational dealings may undermine the performances of the employees (Anggadwita, Luturlean, Ramadani & Ratten, 2017). It has nothing good than to cause conflict between the workers. It should, therefore, be discouraged from working towards a common goal of the organization. Unity and idea-sharing in…

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction The capacity of SMEs to perform viably relies upon their capability to put resources into rebuilding and development. SMEs require capital and access to funding to rebuild and enhance their development. This chapter specifically focusses on the advancement rubrics which could be utilised towards the development and foundation of SMEs and to discover the idea of market condition on a hypothetical point of view. This chapter will further highlight the concise meaning of SMEs and how innovative strategies impact their progression and establishment. 2.2 Definition of SMEs According to Adeyele & Osemene (2018) the term SME is a wide term with varied definitions and measures which varies among various nations and research findings. The commonly used criteria the number of workers, complete nets resources, deals and the venture level. In the determination of the size, there are various methods used in characterising the upper and the lower sizes of an SME. Equitable and experimental research on Small to Medium Enterprises has since quite a while ago showed the complexities of investigating this segment (Al-Tit,…

Kant’s theory of slavery While some scholars point out that there is no evidence that Kant abandoned his earlier views on race in the 1790s, others argue that he changed his racist views as a result of the development of notions of moral equality and autonomy. In contrast, others point out that his views changed after Kant abandoned his early views on race, not after his renunciation of slavery. While people like Forster actively fought against racism and slavery, he even failed to condemn slavery in his writings. There is now a great debate about how Kant has contributed to our understanding of the history of racism, slavery, and other forms of oppression in modern society. The right Kant is the version of Kant that comes closest to the truth that the philosopher who proposes the construction recognizes as truth. This means that the “genuine” Kant, as he is taught today in history and philosophy courses, has developed a hermeneutic principle, which consists of protecting Kant from the criticism of his immediate successors and thereby making his writings appear arbitrary…

Relationship between Population Growth and Food Supply According to the Malthusian theory of population, the population increases exponentially, whereas food supply grows arithmetically. By nature, human beings increase in a quick geometric ratio, while food increases slowly in an arithmetic ratio. Ideally, population increases faster than food supply. Thus, the population must be controlled to keep the condition at equilibrium. An increase in population is limited by subsistence means of a given population and prevented by powerful checks. The higher the food supply, the larger the population sustained. An overlap in population leads to a lack of adequate food supply, and as a result, people might die or struggle for existence. Therefore, Malthus suggests the use of checks on a population to avert the adverse effects of food shortage. Positive and preventive checks are the main checks used.  Based on the positive checks, nature has a natural way of ensuring that population growth is at equilibrium with food supply. It occurs when humans fail to control population growth and can be informed of natural calamities such as famine, war, earthquakes,…