I have been an "entrepreneur-in-making" for more than 6+ years now. When I quit my job at Oracle in Dec 2003 to start our new firm Excelize (http://www.excelize.com/), I was full of enthusiams and energy. I was finally realizing my life long ambition of doing something on my own. It has been a great journey so far - lots of ups and downs, but incredible experiences. I cannot imagine giving this up and doing some thing else. There have been times when I have come very close to having to shutdown my company and start looking for a job.
I believe there are many like me who have an "entrepreneurs DNA" and would not be happy doing anything else - despite all the hardships. I want to connect with you - share my experiences and learn from yours.
I believe that doing a startup in India is not easy, as we don't have a culture very encouraging of entrepreneurship and risk taking. This is true especially of those who come from families that have a non-business backgrounds. Even for those who do come from business background families, its not easy - they have different expectations to live up to. I think we need to create a group of like-minded entrepreneurs and share our experiences, learnings from mistakes and wisdom gained by actually doing business in India. What do you feel?
So, this is an attempt to connect with fellow-entrepreneurs and share. Hope you will support my attempt. I will soon post my my first article on - how I realized that starting a new company is like running a marathon and not a sprint.
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Pratap,
ReplyDeleteSo like you to go public and want to share and create a community. Thanks and congratulations.
I would want to see some terminology cleared up, so that we explore what we are really seeking to do here...
Entrepreneur as opposed to being employed -- just what does it mean?
Risk taking?
Being on my own?
Supportive Environment?
DNA?
Organisation?
Community?
I will of course share my "definitions" but leaving the white space as is so at to let everyone's voice be heard.
for those interested, including you, i urge you to visit http://www.freedomforaprayer.com/D3forC3.html (the whole site) but really this is the more relevant page...and actually i am noticing that my webmaster has not removed the mistake pointed out...grr...
do keep writing -- all of you
You raise some good points. When I think of an entrepreneur I am thinking of -
ReplyDelete1. Someone who is looking to setup and run a new enterprise/business.
2. Someone who is willing to venture away from a salaried job and take risks associated with being on your own (or group of people).
I used the term DNA very loosely. My experience is that for certain folks entrepreneurship is a passion and they are willing to give up the security and stability of a salaried job and take up huge risks to succeed at this.
Well the idea of "community" is pretty much the accepted meaning - bring together like minded entrepreneurs to share & learn from each other.
Thanx for stopping by and providing your insights. I strongly recommend to all to review the document/link you mention.