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Believe it or not, I never relied extensively on my browsers’ dictionary to spell the word – entrepreneurship until recently when I started to fill up my profiles on the web. As with everyone, with frequent usage I learnt the word without having to wait for the wavy red underline.

Someday is not a day of the week.

I have been meaning to update this blog “someday soon”. “Procrastination”  is the word I learnt. It was true. “Someday” never came over the past few months and this blog sat around ignored by its own author. While there are stats about how many blogs are started every hour, there has to be a similarly surprising numbers of blogs which just hang around stagnant.

A question on LinkedIn Group Young Indian Entrepreneurs asks:

If you were to pick one trait of a successful entrepreneur what would it be?

What is the most essential quality one should have to be an entrepreneur. Passion, Self confidence, Risk taking ability, Visonary etc. etc. But if you have to pick up one trait which defines an entrepreneur what would it be and why?
So chip in and let’s find out what’s that?

An answer by Ravi Shete is pretty well worth a read:

His answer:

Initial Synopsis:

Harpreet Singh is a B.Com graduate who wanted to make it big in sales. He wants to become a salesman so badly and joins AYS Computers. Things start to screw up when the honest Harpreet Singh refuses to give up his ethics to close a deal.

And finally he finds out that his company has been selling computers at really high margins and sucked in after sales support. He then starts out on his own parallel company by using company resources and convinces his colleagues to join him and so goes the movie.

The Blog Post

Saturday Shouts! On these posts I try to link to interesting reads of the week and I will try to keep the lists small so that they do not take too much of your time this weekend!

• My Startup Ideas I Never Launched CollinLaHay shows you his ideas which never took off. If some of his ideas interest you, venture out and take action on them!

• Perseverance Will Save Your Blog – A guest post on Problogger by Robby G explains how perseverance will help your blog in the long run.

I ask myself this question every once in a while. I remember overhearing in deep sleep in some audiobook  – “Any that requires you to work from morning to evening is not a business, but it is a job.” I am a great fan of this phrase. It is common sense yet when you think about it, it is dangerously powerful.

I am not exactly suggesting that you outsource all your work and sit back home munching chips and drowning cola, but if you have a part of business which is  essential to the business, but not worth your effort, OUTSOURCE. I remember a tweet by Mani Karthik where he said something on the lines which meant Anyone can outsource to anyone, thats the beauty of the internet.