Comments on: Entrepreneurs are rare http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare Experiment, Explore, Enjoy Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:49:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ashwin http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare/comment-page-1#comment-3389 ashwin Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:10:58 +0000 http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/?p=442#comment-3389 @sunil: I agree. An entrepreneur is one who sees an opportunity and grabs it. Task creation is a very core part of execution of that opportunity and as far as I see it, this is the toughest part for an entrepreneur. In fact, I think opportunities exist everywhere. How you analyze it, break it into tasks and execute those tasks is more important. @vishwas: Have I become so influenced by Seth? :) I was not aware of that. @sunil: Wordpress has the habit of over-using its formatting capabilities :) I'll see what can be done. @sunil: I agree. An entrepreneur is one who sees an opportunity and grabs it. Task creation is a very core part of execution of that opportunity and as far as I see it, this is the toughest part for an entrepreneur. In fact, I think opportunities exist everywhere. How you analyze it, break it into tasks and execute those tasks is more important.

@vishwas: Have I become so influenced by Seth? :) I was not aware of that.

@sunil: Wordpress has the habit of over-using its formatting capabilities :) I’ll see what can be done.

]]> By: Sunil Abhilash http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare/comment-page-1#comment-3387 Sunil Abhilash Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:01:49 +0000 http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/?p=442#comment-3387 For some strange reason, The comments region here does not support characters in Caps :D For some strange reason, The comments region here does not support characters in Caps :D

]]> By: Sunil Abhilash http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare/comment-page-1#comment-3386 Sunil Abhilash Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:43 +0000 http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/?p=442#comment-3386 HI HI

]]> By: Vishwas Krishna http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare/comment-page-1#comment-3385 Vishwas Krishna Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:09:19 +0000 http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/?p=442#comment-3385 Very well written. Everyone needs a secured life, which they strive to achieve by taking orders. They do not want to take the risk of being judgemental. Go to school, finish college, take up a job and impress your boss. Now, thats what everyone strives to do all through their life. As long as people get paid for taking orders, they'll continue to do that without any regrets. To come out of beaten track requires lot of guts and only few can do that. On a different note, I think your writing style matches that of S.Godin. Very well written. Everyone needs a secured life, which they strive to achieve by taking orders. They do not want to take the risk of being judgemental. Go to school, finish college, take up a job and impress your boss. Now, thats what everyone strives to do all through their life. As long as people get paid for taking orders, they’ll continue to do that without any regrets. To come out of beaten track requires lot of guts and only few can do that.

On a different note, I think your writing style matches that of S.Godin.

]]> By: Sunil Abhilash http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/blog/2009/entrepreneurs-are-rare/comment-page-1#comment-3384 Sunil Abhilash Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:04:55 +0000 http://www.ashwinupadhyaya.com/?p=442#comment-3384 Hi Ashwin, Nice post and agree with you to a some extent. However, Evolution always has had outliers. Thats the essence of the theory of evolution. Not all of them make it, but the ones who do, make it really big :) And as far as we humans are concerned, the earliest entrepreneurs would have been the ones who had to courage to move out of Africa. You can say the same for Vasco Da Gama and Co Also, as far as Task Creation and Entrepreneurship is concerned, I disagree with you. From what I understand from your post, only the person who is setting the task or rather, the one running the company is the entrepreneur. I think it is more to do with how the team is structured and is an entirely different ball game. And you can still have companies like 3M where an individual has almost unlimited freedom to do his work. An Entrepreneur for me, is one who see an opportunity and goes all out to make the most of it. And the brethren exists, becase almost everybody can see the opportunity, but very few have the balls :) Good one, Keep 'em coming :) Hi Ashwin,

Nice post and agree with you to a some extent.

However, Evolution always has had outliers. Thats the essence of the theory of evolution. Not all of them make it, but the ones who do, make it really big :)

And as far as we humans are concerned, the earliest entrepreneurs would have been the ones who had to courage to move out of Africa. You can say the same for Vasco Da Gama and Co

Also, as far as Task Creation and Entrepreneurship is concerned, I disagree with you. From what I understand from your post, only the person who is setting the task or rather, the one running the company is the entrepreneur. I think it is more to do with how the team is structured and is an entirely different ball game. And you can still have companies like 3M where an individual has almost unlimited freedom to do his work.

An Entrepreneur for me, is one who see an opportunity and goes all out to make the most of it. And the brethren exists, becase almost everybody can see the opportunity, but very few have the balls :)

Good one, Keep ‘em coming :)

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