Entrepreneur have an experience or see an opportunity or want to change some things

From Shiv Bhaskar Dravid who founded - The Viewspaper which is India's largest Youth Paper at age of 21.

What is the right age to become an entrepreneur?

So today someone asked me a question on whether it was right to become an entrepreneur straight after college. This is a question that i have been asked a number of times. In fact i was part of a discussion on the same topic at an event called Proto which is India’s premier showcase event for startups.

Let us analyze the advantages and disadvantages of starting out young, say straight out of college or maybe having just a couple of year of experience.

Advantages

* When you are young you have no pressures of supporting a family.
* When you are young you believe anything is possible
* People say you can work harder
* You have fresh ideas

Disadvantages

* As a young person you are inexperienced
* You don’t have connections and contacts
* You don’t have grey hair so its difficult to make people take you seriously
* You may not have financial strength in the form of savings.
* Because you believe you cant loose you end up making mistakes.

Quite frankly i don’t think you can just sit one day and say to yourself that from today i will be an entrepreneur. It cannot be planned. It just happens to you and it can happen at any age. It happens because you have an experience or see an opportunity or want to change some things. That’s when you become an entrepreneur.

However if i had to answer the question that should you become an entrepreneur straight out of college then my answer would be YES..definitely…. I feel everybody should try and do something on their own after college or even during it. Don’t do it to make money. Do it for the learning. Do it to have the satisfaction that you could offer a product or service that people were willing to use. Do it cause you are chasing knowledge.

Entrepreneurial experiences change the way you think. The learnings are tremendous and you grow very fast in terms of the skills you aquire and the confidence you gain.

I feel entrepreneurship is like an acid test. You will come out scarred and hurt but whether you succeed or fail you will come out stronger as an individual and as a proffessional.

I am sure many of you would have gone through or are going through some entreprenuel experiences and would have a view on this. Let me know what you think. Am i right in what i am thinking? Would love to hear from you.


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