There is this guy called Mark Zuckerberg who ventured a social-networking site Facebook . Check out... Here is the link that narrates the journey from a small startup to the latest buzz of Silicon Valley.
Mark, like almost all entrepreneurs, was a prodigious child. He and his friend built a MP3 plugin for Winamp that adapts to the test of your music and accordingly creates play list. Upon seeing their software under freely-downloaded category, Yahoo! came calling. Both of them turned down an offer of Yahoo and pursued their graduation in Harvard and Yale.
Harvard was reluctant to give away the information of the students and that made Mark to hack into Harvard's server. That is the birth of a new baby-Facebook. After dropping out from the University, Mark and his colleagues devoted themselves to a new startup .Starting from a normal web-portal, Facebook engrossed into a multi-million dollar company that never looked back. It even turned down a lucrative buyout offer of $1 billion from Yahoo!
I think, to be a successful entrepreneur, one needs a sight to foresee the things, and a immense self-motivating force, an ability to take risks. Naturally, one needs to have an "Out of box" thinking which anticipates the changing colors of market. Nowadays, we see IITians, IIM graduates getting caught by an entrepreneur bug. But being a successful person, doesn't need any tag of IIT or IIM. It all depends on how alert we are.
I always dreamed of starting my own software firm. There are certain steps that I am taking to achieve it. And I wish one day that dream will come true.
Amen...
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