The Introductory Rambling — 2

Written sometime in September, 2011 

(Continued from this post)

I became increasingly concerned about the fact that there is only such little time before we lose courage, that, a lot of ideas from so many of us just fade away because we were not able to put the right amount of resources together in the right amount of time. And the passion for social media in 2006 transformed by 2009 into a passion for building an environment where ideas could be nurtured. Where, I could just like any of you float my ideas into, and collaborate with others to build not just that social network this time but help build a lot of other startups too.

I realized that only if there can be an environment where the goal is to ‘nurture’ by sharing what can be commonly shared between the participants, can there be a few more creators/leaders in our galaxy of followers.

At least one much needed resource that could be shared freely across all the participants was, perspective, through structured flow of information and ideas across the, hence formed ecosystem. It was a dream of an open environment that seemed like an ecosystem of STARTUPS thriving on synergies between the people it housed and their goals.

Actually, all this environment needs is, a bunch of entrepreneurs and their common goal compiled in a structure that can produce many byproducts of the act of entrepreneurs getting together to chase a common goal. The common goal being — ‘Scratching each other’s itch’. The thought of this environment struck an impression on me because I thought it is that exact ECOSYSTEM OF STARTUPS I need for myself more than anyone else to transform at least my ideas into real business/es.

I thought this was a very noble goal, to scratch each others itch. But, where were the entrepreneurs whose itch was to be scratched and where were the other entrepreneurs who had to scratch the itch. I COULDN’T REALLY FIND ANYONE WHO COULD SCRATCH MY ITCH WELL

There were salary seekers all through out my journey. My cause was the journey; the destination had become rather obvious to me by now. ’Meaning’ was the destination of the journey I was imagining; it was not the journey in itself. To get to the destination a lot of gaps were to be filled in the journey that lied ahead of me. The biggest gap being, the missing entrepreneurs, those who will ‘DO’.

I gradually started to discover my immediate cause while on the journey to chasing ‘meaning’ and realized that my immediate cause was to nurture those who haven’t even started, because they were willing to,and there was no one to help them. To put it simply, my first cause became entrepreneurship development.