Wake Up call for the Young entrepreneurs

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation!” Mr. Pearl S. Buck has left us to ponder over this marvelous thought but unfortunately the recent readings tell us that the latter half of this statement is not quite true.

Personally, I really don’t know what to comment. I always felt that the untapped potential that was endowed to humanity in form of youth was unsurpassable. They had the zeal, the brains and the street smartness to get down in the market and set excellent global standards. Just when all these thoughts came to me over a cup of coffee, I read this article in Business Report that seriously questioned the absence of innovation in the youngsters. People have conducted surveys to actually prove that the youth is not as informed and educated as the previous generation and hence, creativity and innovative ideas are dying out at an astonishing rate.

Anyhow, that was that! I still couldn’t come terms with this fact and I sat pondering over the same. Thinking about my close friends who’ve established businesses like production industries, CA firms and hardware solutions – even after years of struggle are still around the point they started! We hear the “Think-out-of-the-box” idiom time and again, but where’s the new element disappeared??? This is when the bells rang and I understood that only a good USP and potential investment are not the pillars of success anymore. The people who’ve carved their niche in the market came with an idea that struck no one else but them and they just materialized it!

An unconventional business idea is all that one needs to shoot to fame in no time. An idea that is supported by intelligent leadership traits can be called the success mantra in the corporate world. Corporate complacency doesn’t come with profits, but a hallmark success story that can be sung like that of a national hero does. Generic businesses are out and a mind-blowing creative idea is the “in thing”. We may feel that small ideas are dumb and leave them aside, but it is these very weird ideas that actually become a super hit in the market.

Abhinav Bindra who is an ace shooter has his dad behind him who’s really just hit it right at the right time. Dr. Bindra who started as a food-processing entrepreneur succeeded beyond everyone’s expectations and his curries and other foods are famous internationally. He’s even stepped into the world of providing vermicompost and has fulfilled his duty as an environmentally aware citizen and has made tremendous profits through the same.

I’ve understood one thing from the complete research that conventionality is out and creative ideas that may surprise everyone are here to stay. Where’s our youth heading and are they listening to me? Take the path not taken and stay away from the path that has already been booked…

Finishing with my coffee, now I feel maybe even I should put on my thinking cap and come up with something that “you” out there in the market have never even imagined…Wait and watch!

(Just for the books)