Wannabe Entrepreneurs, Get Excited!

Growing up has always been tough. And why tough? Not because life gets tougher and we are endowed with more and more responsibilities, it’s because we are left on our own to face the brutalities of the world. We no more have anyone to hold our hand and guide through the way. As an entrepreneur, you pledge to do something new, something innovative as well as creative.

Things get different as we grow up, as we evolve. We evolve from being a kid to an adult and most importantly from a learner to an earner. As easy it is to grow up, it is difficult to evolve. Seriously. I meet some people and go like “OMG, so that’s how our ape-cestors looked like!”. Just kidding 😛

So coming to the point, what does it take to evolve into an entrepreneur? Any guesses? Idea. Courage. Hard work. Determination. Ehh, well nope!

Boom! Shattered your notions of qualities of an entrepreneur? The answer lies in the question in itself. Whatever has been mentioned before are the qualities of an entrepreneur; and we are talking about what it takes to evolve into an entrepreneur from a guy with an idea. All that an entrepreneur needs to evolve are sugar, spice and everything nice! No, we are not kidding this time. An entrepreneur needs to be sweet enough to be diplomatic at times to get the job done, spicy enough to get the ball rolling and everything needs to be nice about his start-up.

Like stated earlier, as a grown up adult we no more have people to guide us everywhere or to hold our hand. So where do we go for help or suggestions? The very obvious thing that we do but will hardly say right now –Google. Who can live without Google? It is indeed Google who helps us with the right information and let’s just not get into suggestions. Google definitely outdoes anyone in giving suggestions. It practically never lets me finish my search item.

The same Google has some awesome videos for budding entrepreneurs:

1. Ted Talk by Gary Vaynerchuk

This definitely tops the list because of its idea. Do what you love. Make no excuses. Entrepreneur Gary explains well through his talk how much important it is to fall in love with something in order to pursue it.

Smart, precise and wise words from an entrepreneur. Give wings to your dreams.

Link to the video- Do what you love-no excuses!

2. Business Motivation By Sandeep Maheshwari

As we were talking about evolving from a learner to an earner, how could we miss Sandeep Maheshwari- the storehouse of knowledge and motivational speeches.

What we often forget in this rat race is the need to learn and observe and then react. Look before you leap.

Link to the video- Business motivation by Sandeep Maheshwari

3. DNA of an entrepreneur

So, how do you know if you have sugar, spice and everything nice for your required field or in simple words all the traits of an entrepreneur?

This video lists all traits of an entrepreneur. Click on the link and tick the boxes.  Hope you have it in your chromosomes.

Link to the video-DNA of an entrepreneur

4. Need to Act

So what if you do not have any support initially? So what if people do not believe in you right now? You need to get over what people are thinking about you and and get the ball rolling by yourself.

Be proud of your idea. Be brave to accept it. Be wise to act it.

Link to the video- Need to act

5. Success

Confused?

To do or not to do : that is the question?

Have a look at this video which aptly shows what you get on ths cost of implementing your idea.

Link to the video- To do or not to do- that is the question!

6. APJ Abdul Kalam :”A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failure”

Things are not always rosy everywhere. We all know failures are a part of life. I would take the privilege of contradicting myself. 

Failures. How do you define failure? A situation that suggests that you have been unable to turn things your way. Wrong.

Going down doesn’t make you a failure but staying down does.

Learning to pick up oneself and starting the journey all over again with worn out tools. That’s the spirit of entrepreneurship.

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;

In the words of APJ Abdul Kalam- a leader should know how to manage failure.

Link to the video- A leader should know how to manage failure

7. Motivation

An entrepreneur needs to be motivated and determined enough to keep on going. Here we have a clip where various entrepreneurs, mind you famous entrepreneurs, like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs motivating budding entrepreneurs.

Link to the video- Motivation

8. Muhammad Yunus- The Social Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship with a social cause. Who can teach that better than the man himself- Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank.

This man can just talk and inspire and boy he does that well.

Don’t believe it? Have a look yourself.

Link to the video- Mohommad Yunus- the social entrepreneur

9. Climb the ladder of success with the correct strategies

Just having an idea doesn’t guarantee you anything concrete unless acted upon with clever strategies.

Here we have Jack Ma sharing a few tips to succeed.

Link to the video- Climb the ladder of success with the right strategies

10. The Feeling

Last but definitely not the least, we have the Baadshah of Bollywood to give you an insight into how it feels to be there.

Been there. Done that.

Hear it out from the most intelligent and successful person of Bollywood himself sharing his own share of experiences and valuable lessons for entrepreneurs.

Link to the video-The feeling

Do let us know what impact these videos had on you!