Entrepreneurship – How it all started for me?

Entrepreneurship is something that I admire from my childhood days. The reason is that it not only requires courage and sacrifice, but creates a difference in the lives of not an individual, but the whole community. It is not about money and power, but about passion and dreams.

I always believed:

“There are 2 kinds of men in this world. One, who dreams about their life. Second, who is ruled by the life.”

Both kinds live their lives and get vanished in the pool of human beings with little or no traces.

The roots of entrepreneurship in me were germinated from my IITB days. It was at the Entrepreneurship Cell, IITB, when I met with hundreds of entrepreneurs, VC’s and people interested in starting up their own companies. Let me call them the “Third Kind“.

“These are men who lived their dreams. These are men who create the difference. These are men who put that extra bit to achieve excellence. These are men set out to change the way our world functions.”

And I decided that I want to be one of them.

Soon after doing my B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay, I joined QWest Communications as a software developer for a period of about 8 months. My curiosity and quest for doing something on my own led one things to another, and I decided to join Astra Zeneca (a pharmaceutical company) in their Informatics R&D center in Bangalore. During this while I was staying with Manish (again from IIT) and we used to talk about different ideas every evening and evaluate how its going to work and how big it could be.

One fine day we came up with this idea of Online Photo Printing and boom! We started Picsquare (www.picsquare.com) and it picked up very well.

A lot of support from TIE  (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) Bangalore Chapter – mentoring, advising, helping for funds and connecting to the right people, made it possible for us t take Picsquare where it is today.

Entrepreneurship is not easy, but it’s neither tough. The role of an entrepreneur is to find solutions to problems. He is a good problem solver. So, solve the problems that you get on your way and you will definitely reach your goals. Be focused, aggressive and fast. Energize yourself and your team to build the next big company.