Transcriber: Suravi Kuanr Reviewer: Sebastian Betti
Have you ever thought that you or your kids would start business
at the age of nine? Here I`m.
Eleven year old young beacon,
an entrepreneur, founder of a two year old startup.
Yes, this is Vinusha M.K.
In our education system they teach us to learn it from the school book,
write it on a paper and get good marks.
It continues the college education.
Finally, get a good job, buy a car or house, and settle down in life
within 25 years.
Do you think you will end up your life within 25 years
by working as an employee in a company for the rest of your life?
I had passion for entrepreneurship at young age itself.
The qualities that I found in entrepreneurship are:
Focus, creativity, confidence, risk-taking.
First, focus.
You need to have focus in your business in order to succeed.
If you don’t have focus, you’ll not be able to think properly.
Second, creativity.
As an entrepreneur, you need creative thinking.
You need to come up with new ideas, to keep your brand new to customers.
Three, confidence.
Confidence is nothing but determination to succeed.
It’s inner knowledge that you are capable of.
Self-confidence is a skill that is needed by everyone.
Four, risk-taking.
When you take risk keep confidence in yourself so that you can succeed.
Taking risk doesn’t mean going into business blindly
and then expecting good results.
So keep confidence in yourself.
The biggest advantage of getting started with entrepreneurship in young age
is opportunity to learn important skills such as
teamwork, networking, problem solving, critical thinking,
innovation and self-discipline.
They don’t teach this anywhere.
Example, a person from Mumbai, he is 18 years old and he wants to start up
and he is a founder of it.
He got funded by Mr. Ratan Tata.
His brand follows a B2C model.
under which it sources generated drugs directly from the manufacturers
and provides it to the retailers,
thereby cutting out the middleman scores completely in the supply chain
and providing it to the masses at much lesser cost.
Currently, the brand is supplying hypertension and diabetic drugs,
but will soon start offering cancer drugs at a much lesser cost.
If I can do it, you can do it too.
So first, let’s change. By seeing us others we need start changing.
The things which will happen if he become an entrepreneur
are solving people’s problems,
providing the jobs in uplifting them, helping the needy,
so let’s change first.
I would like to conclude, with one of my favorite stories.
Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to beach to do his writing.
One day as he was walking along the shore,
he noticed a human figure moving like a dancer.
As a result, he walked faster to catch up with this individual.
As he got closer, he noticed that human figure was not dancing after all,
which is picking up little things from the shore
and throwing them into the ocean.
So he went there and asked, good morning.
May I ask, what’s that you’re doing?
To this the young man looked up and replied, throwing starfish into the ocean.
May I ask still “why’re you throwing starfish into the ocean?”
at the somewhat startled writer.
To this, the young man commended.
“Because the sun is up and the tide is going out.
If I do not throw them in, they will die.”
But the writer commentated,
“But young man do not realize
there are miles and miles of beach and there’re starfish every mile?
You can’t possibly make a difference.”
To this the young man replied --
he bend down and picked up yet another starfish and threw it into the ocean
and said it made a difference for that.
So what it means is that even though we can’t do everything,
we can each make a big difference by changing little things that matter.
I would like to conclude with one of my favorite quotes by Barack Obama.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We’re the ones that we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama.
Thank you.