Saturday 9 March 2013

Believe in the Future - Place a Bet on What You Believe in.

Google did not invent the search engine and Facebook did not invent the Social Media, but how come they define their category?

The answer is tenacity and tunnel vision. Truth is, being original or first is nothing - you can ask Apple and Yahoo, how their smart competitors, Samsung and Google overtook them.

In the race of life, nothing is fair. Life only compensates the SMART and the BRAVE. No one owes you a reason for your existence, we've all got to chart our own path, own it and keep milking it until a cycle ends and another begins; because truth is, no one is going to win all the time but you can make one victory last a lifetime!

Its all about OPPORTUNITIES and TAKING CHANCES. There are few chances, so only the strong survive. Its all a zero-sum game, one gets it, another loses it and the cycle begins again.

Ever believed that there was a time when Google was going through a hard time in it early days and its founders were prepared to sell-off to Ask.com for a paltry $750,000? And guess what? Ask.com was not smart enough to see the opportuinity! A university Professor who saw the opportunity, invested his widows-might - $100,000 and in 10 years harvested over a billion dollars! Today, Ask.com is nowhere, but Google is soaring away.

What does this mean anyway? Life is about risk taking, working smart and placing a bet on the future no matter how bleak it may initially seem. We need to keep dreaming.

I believe in the future, I am placing my bet on the futue and asking everyone who believe in the future to come along with me, because you can't join a train once its left the station!