No, You are not an Entrepreneur
So, I am standing here. Telling you… to your face. Dude! You are NOT an entrepreneur. It’s not that I don’t understand entrepreneurship. I understand the startup eco-system very well. I read YourStory and TechCrunch everyday after I come home after my Job. In fact, The idea of Zomato was originally mine… That Deepinder Goyal just stole it from me. I probably wrote it somewhere :(
I have some informed reasons why you’re not an entrepreneur:
- You are not building the next Google. Yes, You should probably take up a job
- You are profitable. Startups don’t want profit, they run after disruption
- You are not looking for funding? Hahah, you’re funny man. How else will you make money? Profit? That won’t make you a real entrepreneur…
- You don’t have an NDA while you go out and talk to people about your big idea. You can’t give away your billion dollar idea like this
- You don’t love failing. You must try and fail. The more you fail, the better…
- You don’t work 80 hours a week. Fun time means more work time, for Entrepreneurs
- You are not running after number of Facebook likes or app installs. Just get users, VCs will take care of the money
- You don’t have TBs of data. So you don’t have the big-data for applying your deep learning algorithms? Big-data is the present and future, dummy! There is no startup without that
- Your startup name doesn’t end with an ‘ly’ or ‘fy’. Startups need a .io, .co, domain to flourish in modern era…
- You sleep
- You don’t carry your brand well enough. Where is your underwear with your logo on it?
- You don’t justify your work by giving examples of Elon Musk.
- You don’t call yourself a CXO
- You’re not a college dropout, or from an IIT, or both
- You don’t want to change the “whole world” or even the way the whole industry works. :( That’s so so selfish…
If you still don’t understand, Noob… This post was a satire on how entrepreneurs are generalised. It’s good to have a big vision, focus on market-fit, make pivots, raise funds… but none of that defines you as an Entrepreneur. What defines you is how true you are to yourself. Even a person selling tea on road-side is an entrepreneur. Success has different meaning for different people.
We all have goals. Personal, financial and others. Let us be respectful to other people’s goals. Stop judging! :) If you know a stereotype that I missed, share it…
