I think the title says it all, it’s not that Indians are not great at starting up businessess & growing them up, but I feel that there is a lack of support and the safety net that is lacking in India.
I also asked a few Professors of mine in this regard as to how can one setup/start a business even though he is not from a business family but has lot of ideas and can work towards it, what are the ways in which he can think of moving? what are the pitfalls that can be anticipated.. more in general , all the startup issues but none could effectively answer my queries, not that they did want to but i felt they did not know.
Is it that difficult to convert passion & ideas into business propositions into India? Also if it has to be started, should it be only people graduating from IIT’s & IIM’s? Are other people not worth a start up?
As a matter of fact I know 2 really successful people who are doing good in their business domain but they have risked everything for it.
Can’t people with only ideas and no money can’t establish businesses? There are open communities which I personally feel are not having the effective networking platform that it projects.
Though thinks look like improving for the better ( atleast in press, media ), I am really not sure on how one can work on it.
I am not telling that everything must happen over night but atleast some means that help individuals show the path of starting,setting businessess.
Monday, November 21, 2005
Friday, November 18, 2005
Being in Marketing
Sounds very exciting & nice, but is that really all that nice?
Marketing according to ignorant people ( with respect to marketing ) is just about those who are attending meeting/conferences with suits & blazers.
This was what I got to know when yesterday a person I was talking to said ' Marketing .. it's just soo simple, not much work & all glamour ' , that was so ridiculous!! Initially it really perturbed me but then later i did realise that I was talking to a person who does not know how businesses work, a person who is highly influenced by people around who are very short sighted !!
I did try to tell him that both marketing & development is equally important but i could guess that he was nowhere near understanding that..
Also from what I could see in him is that he does not want to differentiate himself at all, does not want to be unique, that instinct was very much lacking in him.
On the other side people talk about learning, unlearning & re-learning, talk about change management but why does this NOT happen from childhood for an individual, if an individual is taught to think rationally & also see the other facets of anything ( i mean to say pros & cons ) would it not be awesome?
But I think some people have a mindset where they would just not want to change, or do they want to really but are unable to?
But being into Sales & marketing, 1 thing is for sure, the way I see things probably has been totally different. Also I see that appreciating, empathizing people is so very important and also being unbiased towards any person/situation.
Sometimes it becomes tough to handle that but that's where the unlearning & re-learning happens i guess!!
Marketing according to ignorant people ( with respect to marketing ) is just about those who are attending meeting/conferences with suits & blazers.
This was what I got to know when yesterday a person I was talking to said ' Marketing .. it's just soo simple, not much work & all glamour ' , that was so ridiculous!! Initially it really perturbed me but then later i did realise that I was talking to a person who does not know how businesses work, a person who is highly influenced by people around who are very short sighted !!
I did try to tell him that both marketing & development is equally important but i could guess that he was nowhere near understanding that..
Also from what I could see in him is that he does not want to differentiate himself at all, does not want to be unique, that instinct was very much lacking in him.
On the other side people talk about learning, unlearning & re-learning, talk about change management but why does this NOT happen from childhood for an individual, if an individual is taught to think rationally & also see the other facets of anything ( i mean to say pros & cons ) would it not be awesome?
But I think some people have a mindset where they would just not want to change, or do they want to really but are unable to?
But being into Sales & marketing, 1 thing is for sure, the way I see things probably has been totally different. Also I see that appreciating, empathizing people is so very important and also being unbiased towards any person/situation.
Sometimes it becomes tough to handle that but that's where the unlearning & re-learning happens i guess!!
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