wrong reasons to become an entrepreneur
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Wrong Reasons to become an EntrepreneurTop Seven
Birla
Rules
• Interrupt me I don’t have many slides• Sleeping is fine, snoring is not• I don’t know all the answers so I reserve the
right to say I dunno.• I am available for follow up discussions.
Who am I?
• Past– IIT Kanpur ( entered and exited with great difficulty )– Worked with Infosys and Amazon– CTO at Asklaila– Chief Food Officer at Potluck Restaurant
• Present– Co-Founder of ZopNow.com– Chief Music Officer at Bhoole Bisre Geet ( bhoolebisregeet.in )– RJ with a radio station ( Radiowalla.in )– Poet at large ( Working on a music album )– A PJ artist– The shorts guy
About my company
• ZopNow started in Oct, 2011• Online hypermarket• We stock over 8000 SKUs• Our customers come to us 3-4 times a month• 25+ SKUs in every order and Rs 1500 as avg basket
size• Nandini Goodlife tetra pack milk is the most sold SKU• Fastest eCommerce company - We do 3 hr delivery in
Bangalore of daily needs
My boss sucks and I want to be my own boss
• Those who stay in glass homes should switch off lights before changing clothes
• If boss was bad, customers/investors/employees can we worse
• Isn’t that the whole idea of being a boss anyways
I am bored with my job
• If you are bored doing a role, Imagine how bored you will be doing all the roles
• This is what defines your character. • You will have to do lot of boring jobs to
become an entrepreneur.
All my friends are doing it
• Get the bloody romance out of this• This is a career option, not the only option
I have nothing to lose
• Money• Spouse/GF/BF• Sanity
I want to make loads of money
• You have better probability of doing it with a bank dacoity
• Probability of success is thin• Everybody will not become NRN or Bill Gates
I want to become famous
• Many a ships sink without a trace
You just heard inspirational lecture from some entrepreneur
• Don’t blame me
7 reasons why you should do it
• Passion• Passion• Passion• Passion• Passion• Passion• Passion
I advice for free. You pay only if you take my advice.
Sometimes very heavily.
Thanks
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