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Why India Needs More Entrepreneurs !
- 1. hello
- 2. Welcome to Megabucks
- 4. I
- 5. am the reason why you’re here
- 7. During my days in IIT Kanpur
- 8. I
- 10. But this is not
- 11. about me
- 12. Its about you guys
- 14. (hard to spell)
- 15. (harder to do)
- 16. We’re here because of you
- 18. is about you
- 19. Why
- 20. are
- 21. you
- 22. guys
- 23. important ?
- 24. What’s Megabucks
- 25. and what can you learn
- 26. from us
- 29. Will be built by you
- 30. Not Politicians
- 32. Not the IAS officers
- 33. But you guys
- 35. You guys
- 36. Create Jobs
- 38. Build something out of nothing
- 40. Gold Mines
- 43. Infosys
- 44. [May peace be upon NRN]
- 45. Infosys creates jobs for 100k people
- 46. Direct Jobs
- 47. High Paying Jobs
- 49. and Televisions
- 50. And Shoes
- 51. And Clothing
- 52. And Cars
- 53. One Lakh Tax Payers
- 54. They Fuel the economy
- 55. Directly affecting a million people
- 56. Indirectly - ten times as much
- 57. Infosys affects
- 58. ~1% of India
- 59. 7 Entrepreneurs
- 60. How did they do it ?
- 61. because
- 62. they
- 63. dared to try
- 64. 1st Lesson
- 65. 10 Lessons
- 66. I wish to share
- 67. today
- 68. do 1
- 69. take the plunge
- 70. cut the ***
- 71. get on your feet
- 72. No theory
- 73. No Degree
- 74. No MBA
- 75. can teach you
- 76. unless you try.
- 77. ideas 2
- 78. the best ideas are the simplest
- 81. So what does Google do ?
- 82. Keep your eyes open
- 84. do a lot of things.
- 86. Dive deep into data, then trust your gut Andy Grove
- 87. Be a doer
- 88. not just a dreamer
- 89. see. learn. do.
- 90. for things you can’t do
- 91. get others to do it
- 93. not for you
- 94. team 3
- 95. friends. business partners.
- 96. team wins.
- 97. make a team.
- 100. make sure
- 101. friends > money
- 102. greed team fails.
- 103. I’ve known my co-founders
- 104. since
- 105. class I.
- 106. 3 of us are together since childhood.
- 107. great team trap 4
- 108. Smart people are the dumbest
- 109. avoid
- 110. great-team trap
- 111. avoid
- 112. too smart people.
- 113. don’t try to
- 114. assemble the best.
- 115. you got to be a little
- 116. dumb
- 117. to not quit
- 118. work together
- 119. if you know each other
- 120. not because the other person
- 121. is smart. or cool.
- 122. or because you
- 123. want
- 124. to make truckloads
- 125. of money.
- 126. work with friends
- 127. not all friends are smart
- 128. but they’ll stand by you
- 129. when you will need them
- 130. the most.
- 131. value loyalty and honesty
- 132. over smartness
- 133. its good to be smart as long as you know there are smarter people out there
- 134. risk 5
- 135. risk your own
- 136. Never expect someone else to risk
- 137. on you
- 138. unless you risk it all
- 139. and prove yourself
- 140. when it comes to risk
- 141. lead from front
- 142. <insert obvious beaten-to-death reference to risk vs rewards>
- 143. investment 6
- 144. your first investor
- 145. should be your customer
- 146. + 7
- 147. the power of prayer
- 148. nah, just kiddin
- 149. it is optimism
- 150. who’s the poorest of all?
- 151. a person who loses all hope
- 153. there will be bad times
- 154. horrible times
- 155. <insert personal horrible tale here :) >
- 157. develop natural endurance towards
- 158. pessimism
- 159. never quit
- 160. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
- 161. how close they were to success when they gave up.
- 163. network, networth 8
- 164. you are the average of the sum total of all the people you know
- 165. meet a lot of people
- 166. meet a lot of smart people
- 167. listen.
- 168. learn from them
- 169. learn from history
- 170. learn about your industry
- 171. never trust the media to tell the truth
- 172. reading about richard branson doesn’t equate to knowing him
- 173. Infact, DO NOT read hagiographies at all
- 174. thinking big 9
- 175. scaling up
- 176. trust people
- 177. to not deliver
- 178. when it comes to thinking big
- 179. you got to
- 180. think big. execute. rinse. repeat.
- 181. push yourself
- 182. and lastly 10
- 183. the ‘nevers’
- 184. never burn your bridges
- 185. never take yourself too seriously
- 186. never give up
- 187. never let other people pull you down
- 188. never believe the good stuff either
- 189. never leave the details
- 190. the devil lies therein
- 191. never complain.
- 192. Alright, that’s it.
- 193. Questions ?
- 195. [email_address]