Yipee!!! I am claiming my "own" blog

Technorati Profile

So.. I complete my claim of my blog on Technorati. I hope that slowly it will help in increasing traffic to my blog.

:)

First Post Using Windows Live Writer

Lets accept it, howsoever we hate MS, it never stops from giving easy to user tools. They really seem to have excellent usability engineers.

Yes, they might have produced a buggy OS, but I believe more then 80% people use their OS. Yes, their products crash more often then other programs (MAC/Unix) - but then these OS do not have so many custom written applications. I would rather term it as trade-off.

This is an extremely easy to use application. Just connect to existing blogger A/C, edit existing posts on post new blogs.

Cool.. :)

Reason for this post : when will get more such companies who create such easy to use and aesthetically appealing and affordable (Compare with mac) products?

Are Indians really equipped to be entrepreneurs?

I know that some will be really stumped by this question. After all- Ambanis, Mittal, Tata, NRN - all have come from India.

But the problem is that such people can be counted on fingers. Many articles/blogs have been written on this topic. Still I feel that nobody of us really touching the crux of the problem.

Am I an expert in this area? May be not, still i will try to pitch in with my 5 cents.

I will try to dive into the education system of India vis a vis Indian Parents.

Before that, here is a very good link on Entrepreneurship : http://www.getmotivation.com/goals/goals_grblairentrepreneur.html. I really like the portion where it says, "Entrepreneurship implies a willingness to risk challenging conventional wisdom and prevailing approaches."

If we look at our education system - this is exactly what we are lacking. Most of our education is towards imparting text book based education where challenging the conventional wisdom either does not happen or happens very randomly.

In India - failure is still considered bad (Well - it may be). Parents cant even think about seeing their wards failing. One has to trade in tried and tested waters. These days Computers/Software is hot and everybody has to follow in these footsteps. If someone has a good job, he/she should stick to the same job/profile. Resistance is faced from multiple directions if someone wants to do something which is not a norm.

If this is the ecosystem, how can we have more entrepreneurs? May be we need to talk about entrepreneurship from early in the education. Risk/Failure should be not be seen as something that will put one's career on a back burner. It should be seen as career enhancement. We need to talk about opportunities rather then failure.