You know, rejection or failure doesn't mean you aren't good enough it just means what is meant for isn't ready yet! Things come closer to you as much as you don't need them. You know, attachment to specific desires creates suffering & prevents you from accepting reality. You are not attached to specific outcomes. Hadd ho ti hai har cheez ki, Siddharth S.įive signs you are about to get what you want~! India is an absolute competitive bloodbath just to make a half-decent living.Ī junior chef in a restaurant in a suburb outside Oslo, Norway has a better financial cushion than a founder or VC in India. Ever.ĭo you know who walked away with extra cold hard cash in pockets in Indian venture capital?ģ1 men in a country of nearly a billion and a half people. Less than 1% of Indian LPs have had a positive return from a VC. Only 31 of them ever raised a 2nd fund in Indian history. India has had 404 major VC fund founding partners.

In India, startup founders have a 0.06% chance of having a $100k+ exit. For all the enthusiastic folks caught in the current zeitgeist of #entreprenuership, please pay attention to these facts in the context of #careerplanning #careerdevelopment Speaking for myself :-) :-) No shame in accepting the well established fact that #teachers and #faculty (specifically in #bschools and #filmschools) are the embodiment of the failed artist/entrepreneur that we would encounter about in non mainstream novels and artistic movies, who would precariously balance above the breadline through the only apparent outlet available to them, #teaching :-) :-) :-) Survival of the fittest statistics in #indianstartups scene puts the #mediaandentertainmentbusiness and #filmbusiness also to shame :-):-) Charles Darwin surely is oblivious to this sort of competition :-)įor every one blockbuster, there are 99.99 failures at BO and these stats from #indianstartupnews (mentioned in my repost) really gives me shudders.Īm happy teaching #entreprenuershipeducation than being an #entreprenuer (not being sarcastic and reminds me of the dictum, of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Man and Superman’: ‘Those who can, do those who can’t, teach.’

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