“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant dangers, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.”
Advertisement placed by Earnest Shackleton in 1914. This was for an exploration mission to the Artic. 5000 people responded to the ad.
Reminded me of the promise a startup holds today. A startup in many ways is more than just working on your idea. Its an exploration of yourself as a person, an exploration into a knowledge economy. Quite similar to being an explorer in the early 1900’s ? Ofcourse, you might crash and burn, lose your shirt, make no money in real terms. But thats the price of a shot at glory and your own thing.
You also might end up being the founder of the next Apple computer, or YouTube, or Digg. But you wont know that till you get out of that cublicle you’re so comfortable in, will you?
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Having your own story is always great. At least you didnt wait for some one to pay yourself.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Very true
Thanks for sharing.
November 15th, 2008 at 10:18 am
oh boy this is lovely. I wonder if a Pakistani firm would use this for head hunting
November 27th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Great post. I think we must encourage the culture “Vision and Thinking”. Rather searching a job in Multinational, begin you own Multinational. Educational institute, Media and Internet can play a big role. I have many plans and ideas but I am finding it hard to start something because of lack of resources.
There must be a supportive platform for new visionary people.
November 28th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Where i work, we bootstrapped our firm and still are self funded essentially. I think just get out and start…start with evenings/weekends, if it works out, you could quit your day job