What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the words “Entrepreneurship “ or “Entrepreneur”? Ninety percent of the time you will imagine one of those big shot business names like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg or Ambani or a faceless person in an expensive suit in a formal business environment.
But then you have to go back to the basics .Everyone started out with an idea. It is not even necessary that you have to become a corporate ninja to become an entrepreneur. It is the other way round. You first become an entrepreneur and then if you wish to , you become a corporate ninja or a stay at home mom or sell your idea and let someone else do the business
This concept has been well explained in the movie “English Vinglish” where a housewife sells ladoos from home and becomes an entrepreneur.Entrepreneurship means stretching the boundaries of innovation and for that, all you need is an inspiration. And inspiration like lightning can strike anywhere. Maybe one day your fuse decides to act out and you are sitting there in the dark trying to find a flashlight and suddenly you realize what an amazing concept “glow in the dark flashlight” is because honestly ,if everything is dark how will you locatethe flashlight! And just like that you become an entrepreneur.
To give a platform to start out and test their ideas , colleges have started developing Ecells or entrepreneurship councils which encourage ,support and incubate young entrepreneurs starting out in their college hoodies and grungy t-shirts.
Bloombox,KJSCE is one such Ecell and it helps to transform ideas into businesses . it’s like a mock test before going out into the cold hard world. The target demographic here are the students of the college but the challenges are all in real time. It is really astounding to see the ideas some of the students come up with .They range from services you always wished were available to those younever imagined until someone made it available.
Let’s understand this with few examples.
Tool trunk, an existing campus company sells tools in the college to FE’s and Mech students. If you aren’t from KJSCE and your college does not have this service then I am sure that you wanted someone to hand you the tools of the correct specifications nicely in a bag so that all you had to do was shove them in your locker instead of going to a hardware store and scratching your head and transporting those heavy chunks of metal to your college.
Another company Writing Wonders provides write-ups to you in your class. You don’t need this kind of luxury but wouldn’t you wish for it once it is there?
Artsy Craftsy sells handmade cards, surprise boxes, bookmarks and anything else you can come up with. Again , wouldn’t you wish for some new innovative personalized thingy to be available so that you can gift it to someone instead of a store brought card and at a much more reasonable price?!
If you are a tronics or EXTC student then wouldn’t you wish desperately that you don’t have to travel all the way to town if you don’t live near there and pick out components? Well, Component Cloud makes it available in the college!
As I said, some of these ideas are astounding. What India really needs is more entrepreneurs to challenge the First World countries and make rupee stronger. So, just gather your resources or your talents and team up with your friends or anyone who can fill in the voids of your idea and start a company of your own so that even you can get the impressive title of “entrepreneur” !
The Entrepreneurial Vein 