Starting Up - What they did not teach you at B-School
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Rajesh Venugopal created the Young Kerala Facebook group to provide support and inspiration to young people in Kerala. The group aims to foster fearlessness, risk-taking and confidence in young minds by discussing failures openly and connecting them with mentors. Rajesh shares lessons from his own experiences starting businesses, including common challenges like lack of funding, unstable employees and difficult customers. He emphasizes qualities like perseverance, positivity and emotional intelligence for entrepreneurs to find stability and success.
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The document discusses the characteristics and practices of high-performance entrepreneurs and startups. It outlines that less than 5% of entrepreneurial ventures are high-potential, but these "gazelle" companies create the majority of new jobs. To succeed, entrepreneurs must have the right motivations and profile, develop the right idea, build a strong team with shared vision and values, create a solid business plan, choose the right investors and customers, focus on talent retention, build quality processes, and develop their brand over time. Key factors that determine startup success or failure include founders breaking up, running out of cash, overdependence on a single customer or product, and poor governance.
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It’s really exceedingly crucial that you bear this entrepreneur mentality to succeed in business on your own…because most of the principles you'll need to succeed are based off of being a true entrepreneur.
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- 5. The sapling has to be nurtured to grow up to be a mature oak tree. Along the way, it weathers many rains, wind, seasons, drought, flood. Some environments, even human interventions, help, some don’t.
- 7. Unhappy Young Mind Leads to low Self Esteem Negative Inputs Negative social economic output Feudal norms abuse Constant criticism No emotional support Brain Drain/Migration Suicides Alcohol Abuse Happiness drugs Violence & Terror
- 10. Happy & Confident Young Person Positive Social Economic output Self Esteem Break Feudal traditions Mentor and foster Support Groups Fearless leader Productivity Innovation & Risk Taker Benevolent Society Economic prosperity & non financial investment in young persons
- 28. Ecosystem 20 72 50
- 29. Kerala needs productive young people & this World needs people like you to make a difference!
- 30. With love, Yours, @raj241071
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- Bill gates, Steve jobs became what they are when they were sub 30
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