Me, Myself and Muziboo

In my opinion it hardly is. By saying its an alternate career option are we trying to tell the students that they can choose to work with Wipro or Infy or heck, they can do something on their own? Well entrepreneurship is not an alternate choice, its a personal option chosen by a person after having some experience to understand himself and what he wants and how he wants it.

I am immensely puzzled by the sudden trend to promote entrepreneurship in colleges through courses as a part of the syllabus. Well it definitely makes sense to learn how to draw up a business plan but thats just a part of a business course! Entrepreneurship to a large extent is about perseverance, patience, ability to take initiatives, responsibilities and myriad challenges. When such is the case how is anybody gonna teach all this in a classroom. If there was so much logic and science behind entrepreneurship that it can be taught in a classroom why are entrepreneurs still dabbling?

Well, what made me twitch was this . If I am not wrong, its NEN conducting a course for teachers to teach entrepreneurship to students. Is something grossly amiss about my understanding of things?

Is NEN sure about what its goals are? If they are out to create an ecosystem around entrepreneurs and startups, it can have tangible benefits. But pumping resource and energy into spreading and celebrating entrepreneurship at college level when nobody has any clue seems to undermine the true spirit.

Orkut is undeniably the biggest and the most used social network in India. But slowly the Facebook fad is catching up here for many reasons- their cool apps, the privacy settings, the american population etc etc., Also, am really not sure how the apps on orkut are faring. I have not received feeds from friends on them adding or using apps or for that matter even invitations for apps. If thats not the case, am not sure how users are supposed to discover apps on Orkut. And sad enough when I visit friends profiles, it takes so long for the applications to load that, by the time it happens I am done with my job there and long gone!

To top all this, I see lot of google ads for Orkut which invariably have irrelevant ad description. If I am not wrong this is the first time I see google advertising for its own product and worst still is the fact that the ads grossly lack class!

To many of us, Google has meant class and zen which they definitely have across all their products. Well in my opinion the first exception is Orkut. There is a strong possibility of Orkut losing out to Facebook in the SNS game which is right now the biggest wave on internet

Personally this is the first slip I have seen from Google!