RAGS TO RICHES

Its been quite a while since i wrote my last blog but here it is

First of all im not tryin to preach entrepreneurship to anyone im just presenting “a different perspective”,its not something you do if you dont get a job..its something you do if  you believe u can make a difference..,Its not all  about making money,it is a part of it but its more about giving something to the society and taking up responsibility .

Everybody loves money and are impressed by people who are rich and famous but some of them have gone through hell to be where they are today they believed in persistence,hardwork and more than anything themselves  and also they were optimistic towards their goals,whatever the field may be.

Here are the names and introductions to some of the people who made it big ,  my first person on this list is the youngest billionaire in the world…

MARK ZUCKERBERG :

He is the owner of FACEBOOK the popular social networking site,he was a student in Harvard university but later dropped out to head FACEBOOK,it was a project he udertook when he was a sophmore  in HARVARD . He had already built a music player  (SYNAPSE) which microsoft tried to use and hire him but he refused preferring to study before joining HARVARD.Today FACEBOOK is a multi million dollar site which is expected to touch the billion dollar mark in the near future.

more details can be found here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg,

An old interview :http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker-dropout-ceo.html

SIR RICHARD BRANSON:

An English Industrialist,a succesful entrepreneur,an adventurer, owner of the VIRGIN brands .This young old man  has done it all.He started his first venture with a student magazine which was succesful,then he moved on to music         ,VIRGIN record label was born.After that he wanted to move into the airline industry which involved high stakes inspite of resistance from his closed ones and friends ,he did and it was succesful too.He made an attempt to  circumnavigate the globe by balloon ,he crossed the atlantic in a high speed boat.

for more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson

and he has a blog too : http://entrepreneur.virgin.com/author/richard/

SUNIL MITTAL:

An achiever,dreamer passed out of Punjab university in the seventy`s .His father was an MP but he did not want to follow him ,instead started a bicycle manafacturing buisness with a friend after graduation with a borrowed sum 0f 20,000.He realised that he would remain small so he moved out of ludhiana and started importing Electric generators but the govt imposed a ban on such imports. So he moved on to producing push button telephones with a partnership with a German companyin those days only the clumsy round dial phones were present.Later on he succeded in the industry and thus our well known cellular comapany was born BHARTHI AIRTEL.He is currently the 64 th richest person in the world according to FORBES.

There are several such people who defied odds and are at the top of their industry ,below are some of the people worth reading about:

• Ingvar Kamprad (owner of IKEA)
• Kirk kerkorian
• Ramesh Chandra
• Larry Ellison (Oracle)
• Steve Jobs (Apple.inc)
• Carlos Slim Helu
• Oleg Deripaska

for more such people:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_Rank.html

A Different perspective

Hello..

I thought my first blog should be something intresting if not important so here goes..

Entrepreneurship:

Its nothing but starting your own buisness,i know everybody knows what it is but not many people are willing to do that, reasons may be that they dont want to take risks,they like their jobs,not having start up capital or it may just be lack of intrest,But if Narayan murthy thought the same way where would all the INFOSYS technocrats go? what if all our idigenous companies like WIPRO ,TCS did not exist,where would all our techies go? Best guess is some foriegn company,which means all the talent would go outside which would mean our economy wouldnt remain the same.our gdp (a unit to measure the standard of living) growth rate would not have touched 8.5% in 2007.May be we wouldnt have so many malls,so many new flats,branded clothing etc, etc ,list goes on.

Everybody talks about the economy,recession (economic slowdown) and how people are given pink slips and our very own engineering comrades not being given a joining date even after getting a job,why not think different ,do something different, create our own jobs where we dont have to answer anyone ,where we are the boss.

Here is a link to an article in Harvard Buisness publishing why it is favourable:http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/gergen-vanourek/2008/08/why-entrepreneurs-love-a-downt.html

Three reasons why to start your own:

1:During recession most people are afraid of a new venture this cuts out many competitons.

2:Most people are hungry for buisness meaning you have people ready to buisness with you who in good times wouldnt or you may get better service for lower cost.

3.A start up does not have the same issues as an existing company during recession.

There are many reports in the net that one of the way to tackle recession is through Entrepreneurship…

since this is my first blog i will stop this for now and continue later according to your response do tell your suggestions and what you think of this..