The Entrepreneurial Bug – Guess who’s got bitten by it?

Moi!!! Yes, lil ol’ me! How? Why? What?! When? I haz no answer.I dont really know when I got bitten by it.. Anything could have done it.Maybe those books by IIM peeps I’ve read or that humble “Eat Cake” book by jeanne ray I loved to read long long ago or ‘me finally making it to a B-School’ (I know b-grad != successful entrepreneur) or maybe the \m/ people I met in my recent social media meetups & the stories they told me or that totally naive B-plan thingie that won me a title in DARE(*shameless hoot* ).. Point is.. I’m a wannabe-entrepreneur.As simple as that. Or, err..otherwise!

Flipping through the pages of one of my favorite magazines, “Entrepreneur” I found this interesting piece, which I wanna share with y’all. Here ya go :

10 Reasons to Run a Business from Home

1.Getting up at 9 am or 11 am.Or not at all .You could work from your bed.

2.Going green by default.You wouldn’t be driving to work,would you, genius?

3.Never having to miss another cricket match again. Bliss!

4.No manipulative co-workers to deal with.Just manipulative kids.

5.Having full discount meals.Yesterday’s leftovers make for the cheapest lunches.

6.Being able to listen to Iron Maiden at full blast.Or Himesh Reshammiya.Whatever rocks your boat.

7.Being able to make your own coffee.Just the way you like it.Bootstrappers know how important that is.

8.Eating your meals at your desk.Or make your dining table your desk.Whatever is lazier for you

9.Never having to dress up for work.Never.Two words for you- boxer shorts

10.Never being nagged again for not coming back home in time.

That is real freedom!!

If you’re looking for inspiration, I think you should take a look at this..

And my entrepreneurial area of interest?? My baby’s gonna be a social enterprise &/ an ad firm. Only so much info for now. Kinda started with the planning process..but as I can see, I’m going nowhere. If anybody’s interested in collaborating, ping back. And guess who I gotta meet last week?! Rashmi Bansal along with 3 other people who are featured in her best selling books ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’ & ‘Connect the Dots’,the latter’s book release for which she was here @ Landmark last sunday. We had an awesome time there & I even gotta meet a likeminded entrepreneur called Sudharshan from MICA, one of the founders of TING. (Pity I cant find any linkbacks to them) Anyway, I got a few minutes with her and asked a few questions (when she was busy signing my copy of her latest book yay!)…you know how these authors are.. They get ideas when people tell em ridiculous stuff,and they base their next book on that & even dedicate it to you.So, Yeah. that’s what I did. And I’m not embarrassed one bit

That was one eventful day. Infact, most of my days here @ Business School are like that..and I have a feeling, the best is yet to come .Week before last, one of my seniors told me about this NEN (National Entrepreneurs Network) meet that was happening in Chennai & I gotta go there & meet people of my age or younger.. and my oh my! Are they amazing or what?! One would turn a wannabe, just by looking at their enthusiasm and near-religious zeal for entrepreneurial activities!

Anyway, I could go on and on about this..but I think I’ll stop here & get back to that Organisational Dynamics Case Study (open on the background), I so dont feel like reading & that issue of Economic Times lying on my bed ( my bedtime story book,these days)

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people wont so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t – A student in Warren G. Tracy’s class

And Remember, Forrest Gump’s Mama always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.’

To our success in life,

Cheers,

Gracy

P.S:  There are loads of resources like this on the WWW that should maybe read someday.

Bar Camp Chennai 4 #BCC4

My very "first” *airjerk* social media meetup happened on the last sunday of June. And as usual, yours lazily has come up with a very late post of what happened in BCC4 (Part o my contribution). This time ‘round, the venue was Cognizant @ the OMR stretch.

For those of you who’re wondering whatever a “Bar”Camp is… Stop thinking Here’s what that is : user-generated conferences (or unconferences) that are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants themselves. (How cool is that?)  Barcamp participants are diverse, though there are specific interests that bind them together. Using the internet and new technologies is always a huge theme, but what brings BarCampers together is where that theme crosses into other areas.

Since this is a BarCamp, to participate, you will have to contribute. This can be done by:

• Presenting on a topic of your choice
• Demoing something (preferably something you created)
• Volunteering and helping out
• Suggesting a talk idea
• Blogging/tweeting about the event (basically publicity in whatever way you can)

The knowledge Foundation were the event managers for the day. BCC4 had a whole lot of interesting speakers who led interactions on topics ranging from ‘Market Research for startups’ to ‘How to calculate taxes for startups’ that most entrepreneurs would have found useful.. to other more techie topics like the Ganesh Rajmohan’s “Synchronization And Java Memory Model,Senthil Nayagam (Founder of RailsFactory.com)’s “Hackerspace”,

Swroop Singh( PayPal X Developer Network)’s “Monetization made easy with PayPal X”, Balaji Lakshman (Geeky Inc.)’s “Robotics – The Future Life making Robots”,Karthick (pre-final year student from SSN)’s “Running OSX on Virtual Box”, UID stuff & the more societal ones like on Traffic Management where Sonal Mishra,IPS, Deputy commissioner of Police Traffic Central Chennai, got great inputs on how to technologically improve the traffic management system in Chennai.

The collaborative, easy-going atmosphere is often supported by a keg of beer or several bottles of wine (or several crates of PepsiCo & CocaCola products, as would happen in Chennai ), and participants find that attending BarCamp holds as many professional advantages, in networking and learning new technology, as social ones.I had great fun meeting with several entrepreneur speakers and participants and indulging in fun conversations.

 

 

 

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Faceless Facebook Accusations ??

With the Facebook blockade hitting the news, big time, last week I tried to excogitate on the matter of social media intrusion into our everyday life.

I’ve guest blogged on this topic @ DailyBloggr.com . Check it out  here & key in your opinions too! 

Yoo-Hoo

Okay! So clearly, I’m not the best blogger in the world. It has only been, umm… 6 months since I last posted ._O  & It took me a little more than the indiblogger rank going down, receiving spam blog comments, to drill down the negligence quotient to my lazed dazed brain.

If you were wondering what I was up to all this while, the answer pretty much amounts to this : Living a phase of my life that I’d like to title ‘WORK-part 1’. Life was pretty darn cool.And that,requires a post of its own to do it justice,especially since a lotta people (4 is a big number too ) have been asking me how my work experience was.

I’ve been queuing up a dozen posts on the back of my head,but its taking me forever to put it down.But it will all happen,i promise.Just incase you thought I was off the social media all this while, you ARE sooo wrong! I’ve been tweeting like crazy & that I figure is the rationale behind this blogger’s block that I had. Anyway,good news is: Gracy is back for good! & Maybe there’s gonna be a shift in my writing ..hopefully,for the good (I just reread some of my older posts & i was like.. *covers eyes & turns away.No puke*) . So come back again and check out Coupe de grace (God! I should get my blog a better name.) I’ll just cut the crap here & sign out before i get hit by those pelts!

Cheers,

Me

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Oh,Snap-3 : BLUE

Just another “Oh,Snap” moment I experienced,exactly a week ago ! My PC snapped! For the very first time in my 12 years of windows usage..!! <clap clap>

Is there any way to get rid of the BSOD.Oh yeah.I was googling & found the perfect solution,that some creative genius discovered.Well..All discussed below..

55 Fiction

Well..I was unsure on whether to publish this* or not.. After seeing the heart-warming comments I received at the contest entry page..I thought “Might as well hit the Publish buttton” And by this* I meant my 55 fiction.

55 Fiction is a form of microfiction that refers to the works of fiction limited to a maximum of fifty-five words.And this piece of fiction was written for TheColorsMagazine contest.Well Anyway,without further ado,Presenting….<DrumRoll>

DRAMA BACKSTAGE.

“I’m done. Meet ya backstage”, Eric quickly whispered. She flitted as though led by hypnotism.

He pecked at her cheek

“You missed!”

Flirty conversation… Making out… All was quiet but for the suspiring noise.

“THIS IS A RUDDY UNIVERSITY ,NOT YOUR BEDROOMS!!”

Naturally panicking Eric said “Somebody call the ambulance. I’m on with the Heimlich maneuver”

Check out all of the entries here (they are all damn good).

P.S: I’ve written another 55fiction based on personal experience.Read on. =P It maybe shabby,but its still my baby!

WANTED : DEAD & ALIVE.

Something was fishy about tonight’s tranquility..

Briana slipped into her nightgown .

He lay low, ready to pounce anytime.

Lights turned out!

Gulping the lump in her throat she slid under-covers…Her mobile glimmered as she received that last goodnight .

That was his cue he pounced on her .

Shrieking, she jumped out ,“Frigging moth!”

Note: I have mottephobia ..Not that I’m the extreme case..But I read this piece of English literature when I was 15,and since then get reminded that Moths are souls of the dead waiting to Pass through Purgatory…(dead souls,yet alive : Incase you didn’t get the title) <shuddering> So that is one reason I freak out whenever I see one.

Enough 55 fiction for a post.Hope to brew some real good ones,with time!I know I’m getting there