There is actually a free flow of people moving from being jobbers to entrepreneurs and vice-versa
Eight years ago when we were right-tuning our careers, I had a meeting with a colleague-turned-entrepreneur discussing his business. We were recovering from the post-9/11 recession in the economy. And here was this guy who declared, ``I will never go back and work someplace, even if it means I have to survive by selling dosas by the road-side.’’ I did not understand the full import of his statement. In hindsight the transformation had begun.
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Rewind to the third quarter of 2009, not less than a dozen of my friends had jumped into entrepreneurial waters. Some of them were long-time jobbers. Upon inquiring I got the stock answer, “I can live better earning for myself.” Such an attitude. And that too in the midst of a recession. Things had indeed changed.
As months passed by I realized there is actually a free flow of people moving from being jobbers to entrepreneurs and vice-versa. This was an interesting phenomenon. I had always heard things to be black-and-white. ‘Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur.’ ‘A man used to a regular pay-check at the end of the month can never live in uncertainty the entrepreneurship begets.’ There was no dearth of wise cracks and slogans. But here I saw people moving to and fro between the two stations—job and enterprise.
All these started falling in place when we were discussing our third anniversary issue, the one you are reading. What I had seen was a total transformation of the mindset. You would have read Pradeep Gupta’s thoughts (if you haven’t, please stop now, read it and come back). We are actually witnessing the democratisation of entrepreneurship, a situation where every individual feels he or she can be an entrepreneur.
So we thought, a good idea is to become a catalyst in this cause and make our 3rd anniversary issue a reference book of how to face challenges. We asked 30 select CEOs from diverse business domains to write about their major challenges and how they overcame them. The result is a fantastic aggregation of some of the rare insights into building, nurturing and growing the business despite challenges. I hope it stands long as a reference material for anyone facing challenges who can find solace in the knowledge that others faced the same issues.
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Now, here’s the deal. If anyone of you want to connect back to our CEOs, you can contact us so that we can connect you.
And there lies a major transformation that we, at Dare are ushering unto ourselves. We are re-discovering the space, watching you closely and learning from your own experiments in change, into being your partners in progress. How? By becoming your extended arm for information, data, and business connect. If you have noticed the changes in design and layout, its part of it; where we bring in a clean, clutter free approach to information dissemination.
Many of you may have noticed our web portal, http://www.dare.co.in, which has undergone a change. That is also part of our transformational process.
In short, we are trying to bring in all the pieces of information delivery mechanism together to meet your demands better and connect with you more deeply. Tell us what you think.
We are always grateful to your continued support, a reason why we are in business, and look forward to deeper intellectual connect with you.
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