TECHNPRENUERSHIP BY DANIEL MANKINI
Iconic Ad slogans like ‘Just Do It’, ‘Impossible Is Nothing’ and its ilk
are slowly and steadily being used by an entirely different variety of
human beings and this particular species are growing by the day in
India. They possess inherent qualities of grit, gumption, passion among
others. This group lives in voluntary isolation and refuse to swim with
the flow, in short THEY ARE REBELS. I hope you would have got it by now.
I’m talking of the band of non-conformist collectively called Entrepreneurs.
Popularized and glamorized by the technical geeks of America, Europe, this word is suddenly acquiring a new meaning in Modern India. Economic liberalization of the 90’s has thrown India into the global centre stage with tons of lucrative opportunities and millions of Jobs. This has also fostered the global mindset of Indians and an urge to do something on their own. Last decade also happens to be the watershed period for the Information Technology industry and this resulted in numerous intellectual and visionary Indians making their presence felt in the global arena.
The first such breed consisted of the likes of Vinod Khosla(Co-founder and Investor in SUN), Vinod Dham(Father of the Pentium Chip), Sabeer Bhatia(Founder of the Hotmail,later acquired by Microsoft for an eye-popping 400 million$), Jerry Rao and Pramod Bhasin(Father of the Indian BPO industry) and many more and these were called as Technopreneurs. Our very own NarayanMurthy, Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar, Ramalinga Raju etc took the plunge when any Indian hardly knew the word ‘Technopreneur’.
Post the Dotcom craze and the subsequent Big Bang emerged our second generation of Technopreneurs ready to take on the world with their amazing ideas, unbridled passion and enthu. Mr Bhikhchandani(man behind naukri.com,99acres.com etc),Avnish Bajaj(Bazee.com:now e-bay india) and this list is too big to count.
The fact of the matter is that today Technopreneurship seems to be real, it adds value and normal intellectual junta appreciates it. Infact today is the right and ripe time to indulge into the unknown world of Technopreneurship. All the aspiring Entrepreneurs have so many role models to look up to in time of distress. Their lives have been dissected well enough for everyone to know how they managed to not only survive but thrive. In other words Inspiration is plenty
Popularized and glamorized by the technical geeks of America, Europe, this word is suddenly acquiring a new meaning in Modern India. Economic liberalization of the 90’s has thrown India into the global centre stage with tons of lucrative opportunities and millions of Jobs. This has also fostered the global mindset of Indians and an urge to do something on their own. Last decade also happens to be the watershed period for the Information Technology industry and this resulted in numerous intellectual and visionary Indians making their presence felt in the global arena.
The first such breed consisted of the likes of Vinod Khosla(Co-founder and Investor in SUN), Vinod Dham(Father of the Pentium Chip), Sabeer Bhatia(Founder of the Hotmail,later acquired by Microsoft for an eye-popping 400 million$), Jerry Rao and Pramod Bhasin(Father of the Indian BPO industry) and many more and these were called as Technopreneurs. Our very own NarayanMurthy, Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar, Ramalinga Raju etc took the plunge when any Indian hardly knew the word ‘Technopreneur’.
Post the Dotcom craze and the subsequent Big Bang emerged our second generation of Technopreneurs ready to take on the world with their amazing ideas, unbridled passion and enthu. Mr Bhikhchandani(man behind naukri.com,99acres.com etc),Avnish Bajaj(Bazee.com:now e-bay india) and this list is too big to count.
The fact of the matter is that today Technopreneurship seems to be real, it adds value and normal intellectual junta appreciates it. Infact today is the right and ripe time to indulge into the unknown world of Technopreneurship. All the aspiring Entrepreneurs have so many role models to look up to in time of distress. Their lives have been dissected well enough for everyone to know how they managed to not only survive but thrive. In other words Inspiration is plenty
