I had a great corporate career…took bold decisions, put my shoulder to the work, moved mountains and enjoyed every minute of it.
However, I never had the guts to be an entrepreneur. Financial realities and family requirements were my constraints.
Hats off to my fellow life-travelers who chose to be entrepreneurs (by choice or by destiny)!
And now, in my second innings as a professor of practice at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research & Studies, I have the privilege of being qualified as an instructor by the Wadhwani Foundation for their amazing entrepreneurship development course.
MR Innovation and Incubation Foundation is doing seminal work in promoting the innovation culture across its universe of schools, institutes and universities. There are eighty-five startups that have been incubated here throughout the last decade. None of them are unicorns but several have turned into a steady, well-managed business.
In their own way, they are the pathbreakers who are fueling the aspirations of the next generation. It is exciting to sit in the ideation sessions of the next cohorts, hear their articulation of their plans and help them in their startup journey.
Can we guide them on their entrepreneurship journey? Can Entrepreneurship be taught?
After going through the Wadhwani Foundation Course, I know! Yes, it can be taught! It will still need demanding work, a good assessment of the markets and the target customer needs. It will need the right values and right positioning for the target customers – and a lot of luck. But, yes, it can be taught and, if well taught, it can reduce the misfires – and improve the bullseyes- substantially.
I have been a company man through my life – conservative by psyche – but I think I was a successful Intrapreneur for my corporates.
Looking forward to contributing my experience and my learning to the entrepreneurs of the future…
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