DANCE LIKE NO ONES WATCHING !!!

ANGITA KUMARI 2011MB0048

ANGITA KUMARI 2011MB0048

About the author

Nandini Vaidyanathan teaches entrepreneurship in business schools around the world (IIM-B, Princeton London School of Economics). She has co-founded 2 companies: 1) Startups (www.forstartups.blogspot.com) 2) CARMa (www.carmaconnect.in) Both of them mentor entrepreneurs

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Celebrate the small victories in life !!!

Entrepreneurs are so caught up in the rigor of building their businesses that they have forgotten to celebrate the baby steps they have taken to build them.

Always celebrate the first steps you took towards becoming an entrepreneur. !!!
What was it?
Was

it hitting on this idea in the college canteen over cups of coffee that you couldn't afford? Was it writing the business plan for a business plan competition in which you participated for some fun? Was it being during a session on entrepreneurship?

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Entrepreneurs should celebrate these moments. In moments of self-doubt and low esteem entrepreneurs should use these moments for sustenance. For example , memories of the day when you got your first customer can get you through the moments of doubt.

Humans are greedy.

The authors dog is fed boiled eggs everyday and chicken once a month. When given both ,she eats the egg first and then the chicken. Humans would have discarded the everyday food in favour of the special meal first.

The Lesson:

Entrepreneurs too abandon their milestones and desire new ones, without stopping to savor the ones they have already achieved.

A STORY:

A woman grew the amazing daffodils in all shades over five acres of a mountain slope. Outside her house was a poster that read: ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS I KNOW YOU WILL BE ASKING! 50,000 bulbs. One at a time, by one woman, two hands, two feet, one brain. Began in 1958.

Nothing stops you from remembering every single milestone, savouring and celebrating it,revisiting it so that you leave behind not just the daffodils but the story of you celebrated the victory of milestones.

Startups (www.forstartups.blogspot.com)

Nandini Vaidyanathan started her company STARTUPS to help 'ordinary people doing profitable and intrinsically significant work, for helping men and women to achieve independence from bosses, so that they may become their own employers...'

About Startups

Startups is actively involved with micro finance institutions in facilitating business models that transcend poverty lines and loan recovery. Startups mentors entrepreneurs on a pro bono basis. Startups is also actively involved in helping women below the poverty line in building micro enterprises in economies such as India, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and other countries in the Sub-Saharan Region.

CARMa

CARMa (Creating Access to Resources and Markets) Started by 4 people including Nandini Vaidyanathan Aim is to make India an Entrepreneurially Progressive Nation by making opportunity-based SMEs robust, scalable and profitable

What is CARMa?

The biggest pain point for all entrepreneurs, whether in the start-up or in the growth phase, is access to resources and markets.
This is where CARMa (Creating Access to Resources and Markets) comes in.

Why CARMa?

CARMa addresses this pain point by :

Mentoring entrepreneurs (start-ups, mature enterprises and family businesses) Offering an online 20-hour certificate course in Entrepreneurship for aspiring entrepreneurs, start-up entrepreneurs as well as employees who have P&L responsibility Offering unique real-time 'need-based' mentoring when required.

CARMa believes in a collaborative model and seeks to build a wide network of mentors and business partners who bring their own unique core competencies and territorial reach, on a win-win revenue-sharing basis.

What does CARMa offer?

CARMa

offers entrepreneurs Competence, Autonomy and Purpose.

Competence

is giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to

learn Autonomy is mentoring them to make sure they find their inner potential Purpose is helping them to transform not just their lives, but others lives as well.
Not

just once but time and time again; not just for a handful but for a nationful.