How to become a successful entrepreneur?

The Internet is a giant whirlpool filled with listicles that cover the qualities that one must possess to be successful, apparently everybody knows about it! Evidently there are too many, not just few that would make anyone a success.

Among the many qualities that I came across while doing my modest research for the blog, there were few characteristics that I found noteworthy. The few that stood out that not just make you successful but set you apart in this world where you want to write your unique story.

Passion
when there is a chance that you might spend a lot of your daily life at the business choice that you have figuratively given birth to, possession of core quality called passion comes pre-requisite. You lose that fire called passion you lose the interest in the business which would make drive success farther away.

Perseverance

If it were any easier everyone one would be doing it, that alone could be good enough reason for us to keep trying and never even thinking about stopping even after multiple failures. The roadblocks that one might face while getting closer to their goals are the stepping stones that would make your journey worthwhile. Perseverance, despite every odds that are placed against, should be one of the greatest attributes an entrepreneur must proudly possess.

Learn and improve, always!

Having one success should not quench your thirst to innovate and improve. A person stops growing when he stops learning. Most successful people vouch for the fact that their success still depends on their realisation that they are always learning from others, sharing knowledge with each other. It is always in the best interest of one’s business to have their eyes and ears open to the world of positive knowledge and information.

Risk-taking

Every business goes through the phase where the entrepreneur goes to a dilemma of choosing to stay in or break free out of his comfort zone, which is called risk taking. It is only through exposure one could face their fear of failure. Never let your fear stop you from taking a decision that could potentially grow your business to heights that you have never even dreamt of.

Finally, you don’t have to accept every quality in your life at the very moment, only the ones that you can closely relate to. If you believe in your idea, the world will too!

Prince of Truffles

Ian Purkayastha's teen revolution didn't include high school music groups, opposing his instructors or humiliating fashion experiments. For him it was: "dark truffle ravioli with foie gras sauce". What's more, couple of years after, Purkayastha not just recollects the "stunning" taste of that dish, yet he's transformed himself into one of America's driving truffle dealer/tycoon.

In 2009 he took up his post as North American sales director for PAQ Gubbio, a main Italian truffle maker. At that point in August 2010, straight from secondary school graduation, Purkayastha left his Arkansas home and his American mother and Indian father to move to New Jersey, outside New York, where he could be closer to the activity.

Emanuele Musini, director of PAQ Gubbio, said he found his American wonder amid a food show in 2008. Only 16, Purkayastha had begun his own particular business Tartufi Unlimited.

With the truffle season finishing on February 2011, Purkayastha had two kilos (four pounds) left over and was pondering what to do with them. Crisp truffles just keep seven days and after that they require solidifying, which brings down the worth. He was fortunate: while driving the comapany vehicle to a Fedex office, a friend happened to call to request two kilos that he needed to supply to a Latin American customer. Purkayastha has always clearly had that touch with business. He relates at the beginning of his career investigating online where he found some produce in France, transported by Fedex. He paid $150 for a large portion of a kilo (one pound), and sold them to the neighborhood gourmet experts and made a 600 percent margin.

Purkayastha doesn't lament his unusual career path. He knows his priorities and needs and was removed from college subsequent to missing exams. The reason was that he needed to talk at a Truffle Festival in Oregon.

If you know you are good at something, don't let anyone stop you from believing in yourself and pursue it, including you.

The Rags-to-Riches Life of Jan Koum

If you are about to close a deal of US $ 19 Billion would you be worried about missing the flight which you paid with your frequent-flier miles? Me neither, with that amount of money getting transferred to my account I would charter a flight and go around the world but not Jan Koum. According to a message he sends to Facebook he pressured them to close the deal for the acquisition of his company (Whatsapp) faster so that he could be on his way to Barcelona.

The eventful childhood of Koum has so much to do with this money saving habits he carried into his adulthood. Born in Ukraine to a struggling household where running water was a luxury, he transformed himself to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America under 40 years of age. The society was really closed off under the communist rule and the anti-Semitic environment forced them to immigrate to the USA, where they lived on welfare and food stamps, struggling but managing.

Deeply fascinated by the interesting world of computer Koum taught himself different programming languages by buying books from a local bookstore and returning them afterwards. After several billion dollar deal his mother can’t be still mad at him for spending money on books. For a person who barely graduated from the State University, those evening book reading sessions were the actual education.

Through these blogs, I deliberately try to make a point that real success is not the amount of money that you have amassed but not forgetting the values that brought you that far in life. Jan Koum doesn’t prefer being called an entrepreneur or being in the news for the amount of money he has instead he prefers to keep building product and services that help humanity and make our communication process easier and more accessible.

We live in a world where everybody seek attention but there are few like Koum who shun the spotlight and keep doing their part to make this world a better place.

Casey Neistat Writes His Own Success Story

The drive to learn every single day fuels the life of this Filmmaker, YouTuber and Businessman – Casey Neitstat. Growing up he had his own beliefs that didn’t align well with that of the authority figures in his life, and he ran away from home at the age of 15 and became a dad at the age of 17. This was the pivotal struggling moment in his life. Living on state welfare and having a job as a dishwasher his girlfriend at that time left him. But he was able to channel the trouble he was going through in his life to a more creative outlet in the form of video making.


The excitement of the unknown that was waiting when he moved to New York City to pursue his new found passion took over the fear that clouded his mind. Casey had the courage to leave behind what could have been a conventional trajectory of having a usual career but instead, he went after something more terrifying and dangerous. He now sits own his successful Tech Company, movie, advertising, YouTube career.


“Liking what you have is not a good enough reason no to want something better”, Casey Neitstat. This thought process coincides so well with the professional career of most of the people. How much do you like being challenged at work? Or do you like being challenged at all! Many successful individuals have started their own ventures after their daily jobs failed to challenge their creativity and existing knowledge. The moment we stop being learning while doing anything is the time we should search, find and put ourselves in situations which will test our skills and teach us something new.

Who is Casey?

Kevin Plank's Journey from Being Flat Broke to Being a Self-made Billionaire

Kevin Plank may have sold the first Under Armour shirts from the back of his car, but as his reach has grown beyond anyone’s imagination. Billionaire Under Armour founder aims for nothing less than having his firm become the leader in sports apparel and equipment.
But for this self-made man it was a lesson he learned when he was at the absolute rock bottom, with a product prototype so great and not a penny to his name, which has helped drive him through any obstacle.

After launching Under Armour  in 1996 with his $16,000 in life savings after he with his friend Kip Fulks, Plank soon found himself with $3,500 to his name and twice the amount of bills that needed to be paid. In what seemed like a good idea at the time, he took all but $100 out of the bank and left to Atlantic City to gamble. He lost every cent, that he couldn’t pay $2 at the Delaware Bridge toll booth on the way back home.
A day after he lost his life savings, he dropped by his mother’s house for food as he no longer could afford it himself. At that time, he was thinking he made the biggest mistake of his realise, least did he know that this was the biggest lesson life was teaching him. But in the midst of all mishappenings Plank received $7,500 from the athletic director of Georgia Institute of Technology that they owed in payment, just in time so that he could cover his bills. He considered this to be the final call for himself to take charge of his business and lead it to the success it has amassed today.
Two fundamental life lessons Plank learned that day he continues to pass to new entrepreneurs are “Don't blame forces outside of your control for misfortune, and tough it out in the early days rather than taking on investments and giving away equity.”

“You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There’s no other way.” - Kevin Plank

Success is the final product of one's constant battle with themselves, the more you believe in your ideas and trust in your abilities to achieve it, you are bound to reach that ultimate goal.

Elon Musk - Success Story of a Space Explorer

Elon Musk says he didn't become an entrepreneur in order to be financially successful but he wanted to profoundly change the world for better. The life story of Elon Musk from an awkward teenager to the most successful inventor, entrepreneur and space explorer recites a thrilling science fiction epic. It’s no surprise that the makers of Ironman found Musk an inspiration for Tony Stark, a character played on screen by Robert Downey Jr.

Born in South Africa, a brilliant engineer, and entrepreneur with vision uncommon to the rest of the world, Elon had humble beginnings, and he always bounced back with the next great idea. He sold his first game program at the age of 12, he moved to Canada at the age of 17, in 1989 to attend Queen’s University and later joined the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics. He later dropped out after his second day at Stanford to launch his first startup which was sold for a whopping $341 million in cash and stock.

What would a young guy in his early twenties swimming in the unimaginable amount of money do? Yes! Invest those million in his own dreams, that’s what Elon did. His biggest acts were yet to come.

He found X.com which later became PayPal.com which was sold to E-bay in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion. Never one to rest on his achievements he founded his third venture SpaceX with an intention to build spacecraft for commercial space travel. Another revolutionary venture Elon Musk had in store for the world was affordable electric cars to help humanity to break away from the dependence on fossil fuels, Tesla Motors. His story is one classic example of how one must never abandon his/her dreams in life. No matter where life takes us, our determination will take us to that final destination in life where all dreams come true.

Elon’s ideas and visions became true only because he never stopped trying after countless failures and losses. He didn’t relinquish his dreams for the future. Like Elon Musk, we must also continue to pursue our dreams and goals both big and small, assume the risk and step in with courage, it will surely be rewarded with success.

Welcome to "Rewriting Our Life"

No matter where we are from, or how old we are, we all do have this one thing in common, a desire to succeed in life. And we live in a world where one’s success is closely knitted to their professional achievements. Through this blog I am hoping to share with the readers, inspiring stories of few individuals (entrepreneurs) who were brave enough to swim against the current and create opportunities not just for themselves but for the whole world to succeed and excel.

Be certain that you will fall when you take your first steps, these small failures would eventually lead you to greater success when we align ourselves to things that we believe in. Starting anything just for the sake of it would get a person nowhere. Whatever you do, choose an interest that you can still be passionate about years down the road. The world need innovators, the brave ones! Who would create new opportunities, welcome the latest innovations and create a better standard of living for everyone involved.

Every single one of us is little factories of ideas, but not everyone has access to the greatest ammo ever, courage and belief in ourselves, which is essential to rewrite our life. Through this blog, I am hoping to embark on this journey to re-educate myself to have my life rewritten and bring those little passion that I once had, back to life and, I would love to have each and every one of you to join me.

Let’s write and rewrite our lives!

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