The thing about thinking big, staying small.

When one wants to start a new venture (specially the young ones) , i recommend this :

a) Do what you like to do. (seriously!).
b) Stay small (as small as you can.) Reasons, managing people and the environment around us are one of the hardest thing to do. It drains our creative energies and refocuses our energies to mundane tasks of administrating, managing and whim of other’s emotions.
c) Instead, improve your own image (brand, value, worth) by carving out a niche and concentrating on becoming the best at that niche. i.e if you are the best at making “circular breads” and enjoy making it, stick to it and become the best at it. You will find enough loyal customers as you build your brand.
d) Now Stay small, think big . concentrate on how you or you and your small team can think big while staying small. You make a bigger impact this way. Don’t let that ego of you persuade you otherwise.

“if you are looking for a job, join a one person company, if not, join a small organization”
and hope you will enjoy the ups and downs !

Ujw

noticing the street entrepreneurs

… been noticing there are a lot of street vendors in Kathmandu, who are true entrepreneurs of Nepal right now. They are selling Momo’s (nepali delicacy - form of dumpling) on a unique makeshift moving kitchen or re-selling world’s cheapest pants (under a dollar) in sacks, Chanel labeled fake perfumes as a moving vendor.

Most educated middle and so called talented people,seems to be going in droves out of country after jobs in mundane big corporatio (the grass is greener on the other side).

Guess the only true entrepreneurs in town left seemingly are the ones risking it all, on the daily streets, making miracles out of the mundane street business in town. Who have everything to lose, and risk it all in the streets.

Maynot be “entrepreneurs” in traditional defination, but they are doing and risking stuff on the streets with frugal startup funds and raising families where as the more educated, and talented professionals have given away and run away…where their enemies are the local thugs, police, government out to stop them, taxers, dangerous vehicles, nasty pollution and what nots.

” abit of frustration, sarcasm, and over exaggeration but bit of truth also i hope here”

A salute to them.

stability and people

Young people in Kathmandu are under the impression that “grass is greener on the other side”

here are a few tips :

1) Struggle, and make commitments early
2) Commit to career, forget the family for a few years ( really !)
3) Always ask one thing “am i going to lead or am i going to follow ? ”
4) You have a choice, work hard now, or live a mediocre life for a long time.
5) You learn the most at hard times and Kathmandu and Nepal are a mess now, i know. Live through the poison, you will only get stronger…believe that !

enjoy the philosophical edge

tough times, opportunity to dig ground, and shine away !

adversial thoughts

ever thought of creating a business by involving your potential customers into your business strategy.

make them a stakeholder ?

create a business by co-authoring it with your own clients ?

co-creation.. pro-consumer ?>

negativity = Uncertainity = negativity

Bad days for an entrepreneur….

If i don’t know how much electricity i am going to get next week, or how much petrol i am going to get 2 days from now, then thats a big problem for development.

UNCERTAINTY.

These are the days of the parasites

Everyone is looking at another to see if there is anyone to lead them out of this stalemate in Nepal.

I.e constituent Assembly…
met a Non Resident Nepali dying to invest in the country (infact he already is). Just not finding enough forward moving business and politicians to move business ahead.
His family is doing a lot of big business abroad and dying to do more in Nepal. But most of his time is spent on trying to negotiate with politicians for stupid licences..

India’s licence raj is over.. Nepal’s is at its prime !!!