DARE - Because Entrepreneurs Do

You have heard about the "dew factor" in Cricket, which plays a pivotal role in a team's performance whenever there is a day-and-night match. Let's discuss something that sounds similar but has different implications.

Here are some irrelevant but true facts that you would like:

1. Pt. Ravi Shankar (teacher) and Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (disciple) make the only duo in Indian classical music history to win Grammy Awards as Guru-Shishya. It remains history.

2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (won Nobel Prize in 1983) and his students T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang (won Nobel Prize in 1957) make the only duo of teacher-student scientists where the teacher won the Nobel Prize after its students won it. It remains history.

3. Two New Zealand's bowlers playing county Cricket from Nottinghamshire, Chris Cairns and -----(I don't remember the name of the second one), make the only duo of bowlers who bowled the batsmen when they ducked thinking the ball to be a bouncer. This is sometimes known as Notts Affair. It remains history.

4. Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie, her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and her husband Jean Frédéric Joliot make the only duo of wife-husband in a family who won Nobel Prizes. It remains history.

5. Two superstars of Bollywood—Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna—make the only duo of superstars who worked together in only two movies—Anand and Namak Haram—and one of them had to die in both of them. As the scripts had it, Rajesh Khanna had to die in both the movies. It remains history.

Now, why you and I are making the only duo who are talking and discussing these totally irrelevant facts, while they seem to do nothing about entrepreneurship and business.

Recently, I attended TiE Entrepreneurial Summit '09 in Mumbai. I was attending a Gurukul session by Captain G. R. Gopinath, who was the managing director of Air Deccan. He mentioned how an entrepreneur needs to keep working with his idea unconcerned about what other might say. He mentioned a quote by Thomas Alva Eddison: “I have not failed. I've found 10,000 ways that wont work.”

It becomes pretty much important to keep pursuing your idea if you feel that it got potential. In the beginning, others might say a lots of things there might be issues that would result in your failure; the right approach towards keep working might ensure “you and your idea make the only duo that did wonders...it remains history”.