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Research has proven that when you live your life with passion, you add 8 hours of joy to your life. Following one’s passion is to thrive in an environment, in an ecosystem. Who better than the father of the digital revolution, Steve Jobs would know what passion means. He once said, “When you do a thing with passion, you tend to persevere it through hard times, the rest just call it quits.” Passion is something you give your full force of attention and energy to. Essentially, the question pops up...
Entrepreneurship is a mindset not a designation
“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” — Robert L. Schwartz
How would you describe an Entrepreneur in your own words? Someone who wants to start their own business? Or someone who is a born leader and is not afraid to take the decision that would change their life? That’s how it is; a person who is known to encompass such qualities is considered as an individual who is an...
Why Entrepreneurship Training Matters
For years there has been a dual view on whether or not entrepreneurs need to undergo formal training before they begin their journey of starting a business. Some believe that entrepreneurship can be learned only by, on the job approach, in which you start your business and learn through the day-to-day running of the business. While others believe that entrepreneurship, like any other discipline, can be taught, nurtured and improved on, by undergoing specially designed courses, which serve as a f...
Uncertain about getting a job due to pandemic? Here’s how to start your own business.
When you look at the evolution of civilizations across the world, you will observe that most radical advancements were triggered by a crisis. Wars forced us towards technological development; epidemics gave rise to a whole new health care science and system, the financial crisis triggered in the US gave rise to a progressive startup culture and gig economy. Similar will be the case with the pandemic we are facing today, though the domino effect of COVID-19 has shuttered or slowed down various ec...
Challenges for the Next Generation Joining a Family Business
Joining a family business is considered a privilege for the next generation, but it also comes with a huge responsibility. Very often than not, the next generation finds themselves not so prepared for this fundamental decision of their life. With the growing uncertainty in the market and the rapidly changing business scenario, the young leaders must think and decide with a lot of clarity. It is estimated that India is home to 108 publicly-listed, family-owned businesses, making it the third-high...
Emotional Intelligence – A success mantra for Entrepreneurs
We all have been told over and over again, about what makes an entrepreneur successful. Suppose we go by the common belief, it is perseverance, higher IQ, risk-taking propensity, creativity, skills like marketing, finance handling, negotiations and so on. While we idealise successful entrepreneurs as strong, confident and go-getter people with all these qualities, we somewhere fail to acknowledge the one thing that sets them apart from the league of other entrepreneurs and what drives their long...
Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Mentor?
Being an entrepreneur is no doubt glamorous but is definitely not easy as it may sound. For each success you achieve, you have ten more challenges gnawing at your heels. Start-up is all-consuming – it occupies the major part of your life, changes your life irrevocably, sometimes you feel lost, at times you get lonely, but the one person who will get you past these pitfalls and pull you up, for the next run, is your Mentor. Isaac Newton once said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the...
THE MAKING OF AN ENTREPRENEUR GOES BEST WITH A MENTOR
Starting your own company is one of the hardest things you can do, so it’s invaluable to get advice from other people who have done it, too. You can spend years scraping and scouring the internet.
‘FOR ME, ENTREPRENEURSHIP IS FREEDOM’, – SARA, FETCH COMPANY, SPAIN
Those who visited our campus in the past month know that the campus was studded with many young entrepreneurs from Europe. Most of them had come down from Spain while a few hailed from Netherlands.
CHASE YOUR DREAM IN 2015 WITH MIDAS.
If you have a dream, now is the best time to chase it. All successful entrepreneurs have a dream, and the bravado to chase it.
Dreams stem from the innate urge to do something different.