Comments on: Developing entrepreneurs whilst at university / school [kwiqq]

By: UK Universities developing entrepreneurs

UK Universities developing entrepreneurs — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:57:24 +0000

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By: Raj Anand

Raj Anand — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:01:34 +0000

Irfan. I agree that mistakes and miscalculations are equally important from a budding entrepreneur’s perspective. In my experience the journey involved taking the best advice and recursively trying to improve upon the mistakes made.

The mistakes I made perhaps you won’t. Hence I’m trying to put forward ‘my solution’ and perhaps it works for some entrepreneurs out there too!

By: Irfan

Irfan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:04:42 +0000

Hi Raj. Thanks for the explanation. Clearly having a clear focus is the key to success in any endeavor, and any information, be it in the form of videos, books or conferences come into play as great sources of inspiration and encouragement.

However, I am not sure, but I guess most of such information which we come across or which get a lot of publicity or which we try to focus on (intentionally or unintentionally) are only those few tales of successful entrepreneurs.

I believe one also needs to know about the failed ventures. To understand the reasons behind the downfall or no-success of many seemingly promising ventures is as important as studying the secrets and methodologies of successful entrepreneurs.

One can learn from the mistakes and miscalculations of the failed one too so as to formulate one’s own plans in better ways.

What do you think?

By: Raj Anand

Raj Anand — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:27:54 +0000

Hi Irfan thanks for your kind comments ! It is almost hard to pin point one event which stimulated the entrepreneurial ‘ism’. I guess most of it came from closely watching other entrepreneurs going about their business.

I would say I’m very lucky that youtube was released just as I was setting out on the path of entrepreneurship. There was a time when I went through almost 2-3 hours of entrepreneurs speaking at conferences on these online video networks.

Although some skills might have developed as I created my student union society. I always thought of the society as a startup ! I guess having a very clear focus from day one really helped.

By: Irfan

Irfan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:35:33 +0000

Very inspiring and informative post. And I do agree with most of your thoughts.
It would be interesting to know how, in your opinion, your past experience has helped sharpen your business and entrepreneurial skills; such as creating value, taking calculated risks etc…

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