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   asha chaudhry June 17, 2014, 12:05 pm

   okay, okay…. so it’s a hyperbole!!

   still love the idea!

   an entrepreneur, in simple words is a problem solver.

   she sees a hole in the road and wants to fill it up.

   if she can’t do it with her bare hands she will find something that can. or do some jugaad. she will do whatever it takes to ensure that hole is covered and no one falls into it.

   we all are problem solvers. we like to add value to people’s lives. even if it involves some risk…

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   Kunal Bhusare June 17, 2014, 12:28 pm

   Abhik, Thanks a lot !

   I had written an article a month back but did not feel like publishing it. Great that you raised the topic and used the keyword “romanticizing”. You made me publish it today. My thoughts are here as a separate article.

   I entirely agree to your point. Looking forward to your input on my definition of ‘Entrepreneur’.

   Thanks again. 

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   Divyesh Panchal June 18, 2014, 9:04 am

   From last week I have a word doc open always on my laptop documenting those small-big instances that comes across in a “life of an entrepreneur” which are sometimes too serious and sometimes too hilarious. Here is a week long effort: 

   • We can’t risk to be an introvert. Should be comfortable picking up the phone and calling anyone talking about your idea. Blazers or No Blazers, should be ready to meet anyone anywhere when needed. Tell Stories, Sell Stories!
   • Tempted to do multiple things at one time and master them all. Chill bro, focus. One. Thing. At. A. Time.
   • Will always have a long to-do list, listing our extracurricular & interest activities too.
   • We almost try our level best to talk, walk, look, present, and adopt habits like our role model (Steve Jobs in my case). But do we really work like them?
   • We eat, sleep, drink, read, call, talk, meet, socialize, smoke-up, meditate all in the same room and this necessarily is not the office space. Can be a balcony of your house overlooking a tree, or the kitchen room. For us, it doesn’t really matter.
   • You try your level best to impress a girl and once she says “lets meet” you suddenly drive into dilemma because “who pays for the meet up coffee / booze”?
   • We dream of travelling across the best destination on the globe, well wait, can we afford rickshaw meter for our next meeting?
   • Always land up doing things that we were always uncomfortable with
   • We cold call, we don’t like, we cold call again, we don’t like and it goes on!
   • We make the room messy, we clean it, make it messy again, organize it. Day end, its unorganized, shows how much you have worked your ass off.  
   • No matter what, we feel guilty about working less!
   • Internet & technology – our best friend as well as the enemy (it makes us lonely)
   • We want our future employees to work exclusively on Mac but all the current presentation and business plan worked upon a second hand Dell which is repaired thrice!
   • We have humility and want to tip the waiter but cant
   • A lunch plate worth Rs 100 is a meal shared between the two co-founders
   • We read quotes, “by-heart” quotes, makes our own quotes, quote quotes and wait, sometimes implement them too! Sometimes is sometime you see.
   • For our friends and close acquaintances we are either billionaires or chutyas! Always Extremes.
   • Life and time juggles between more than 5 tabs on your internet explorer errr chrome/safari/firefox I mean.
   • Life frustrates us over every small incidence. We frustrate them back, at least try to.
   • We seek to earn money through any source let it be selling second hand computer or writing funny article. Roz ki rooti bhi koi cheese hoti hai!
   • You at least land up reading one article in a day having titles like: “10 habits of highly successful people follow”, “6 ways to increase productivity at work”, “18 unusual things remarkable people do every morning” etc.
   • We always love biographies, autobiographies, life changing books, inspiring movies to learn from.
   • We talk about life as if we are pro at it and we know it all; with who ever, no matter, however, whenever, forever.
   • We secretly and openly believe in God, Miracles and all the non-rational things that people ought to laugh on. And we win!
   • We get stupendous ideas not in the meeting room or coffee table but while squatting, meditating, doping and even while making out! 

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   Ranjeet Pratap Singh June 20, 2014, 11:46 am

   I think we often generalize too much, much like other people entrepreneurs come in various sizes and shapes(literally as well as figuratively) too.

   Long back an Army officer taking my interview told me, do not do anything without proper preparation, even when you go to take a bath, make sure that towel, under-garments, toiletries etc are in order. And yet, just three days later he met me outside and casually commented that nothing that matters in life can be planned and went about telling me of his leaving studies midway to join Army, getting married and life at the border.

   The point that I am trying to make is while some entrepreneurs strongly believe in doing proper market research, arranging for the ‘six months corpus’, building a team, validating the idea etc before diving in, some other take a plunge and learn everything that they need to while building their start-up(s).

   And I don’t think either of the approaches is right or wrong, rather it depends on what works best for you. 

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   Jatin Bhandari June 20, 2014, 7:27 pm

   Abhik/Asha, You made me think:) ….I think what you described in the image is “Arvind Kejriwal” 🙂 …if he can’t build the plane on his way down, he will blame the HEIGHTS and the CLIFF….and will hit the ground with 9.8 m/s/s 🙂 ..the moment he lands, he will start a DHARNA 🙂 

   Entrepreneur is someone, who will build a plane for the first time, take baby steps, jump from a low level cliff that would not kill him, but would let him experiment with acceptable damages..and allow him to learn. He will take the test flight….get bruises, scars, but he will continue to.do the endurance, compression, design testing etc. will come back…improve the design….go to higher cliffs…re-invent…improvise again….

   Once he validates the robustness of the plane, he will take the next Jump from KANCHANJUNGA 🙂 …. 

   Who is not an entrepreneur? Someone who will just watch…watch and wait for the stability. Once the stability is established, he will approach the entrepreneur, and will offer to “Work continuously under the risk free roof”. When the flight becomes absolutely risk free, and jumping becomes a repetitive activity, and a linear equation, that is exactly when an entrepreneur will depart respectfully. There is no skin in the game. There is no game anymore. 

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   Anamika Joshi July 29, 2014, 11:22 am

   Divyesh – you comment calls for a separate post… it’s really good!

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   Divyesh Panchal July 29, 2014, 12:33 pm

   Anamika – I keep on adding frequently on to the list as and when if not on daily basis. 

   Well I guess there many more interesting posts by awesome people on thrs detailing about life of an entrepreneur in their own creative way, so didn’t add up as a separate post to avoid monotony! 

   Thanks! 🙂 

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