Let's startup

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When I left my college in 2009, like all other engineers even I had several things in mind to do.
1. Pursue further studies MBA or MS
2. Prepare for interviews to crack Google interviews and work with Google
3. Buy house (although against my wish)
4. Starting up my own company
5. Learn technology as past time and take technology courses
6. Take extra curricular courses like dancing, playing guitar and travelling.
7. Write novel

After leaving college since today (2015), I worked with many companies and I am currently with Housing.com, which is my 6th company in 6 years.

1. While I was in my first company Onmobile, I gave GRE and got a shit score in English, though I got full in Maths. I declared GRE is not my cup of tea, so will be GMAT and CAT. Point 1 ruled out.
2. All along I have been preparing for interview, my target was to prepare to crack Google interviews. I never got calls from Google, though I applied in their career site. Anyway I was never prepared enough to crack it. Point 2 not fulfilled yet.
3. My dad bought a house in Kalyan on my name and took loan on my name. I had been always under a responsibility of paying the EMI.
5. I learnt several technologies in my past time spending lot of money. Embedded Systems, Android development and Hadoop technology.
6. I took dancing classes for a day, tried to learn guitar from a friend, went to Gym for 2-3 days. I realised only extra curricular I liked and can do easily is travel.
7. Never got time to write the novel and dad never allowed me to quit my job for it. Let's call it that it wasn't a priority.

I missed out Point 4 because it is something which everyone thinks of doing but hesitates to do. I am one of those hesitant people. I had several idea which I dropped out due to several reasons.
1. When I was in college NIT Rourkela, my friend Sameer and I always thought Let's startup (chal startup karte hein). He joined some IIM and went for MBA.
2. After college in Bangalore, my college friend Dhruv and I had an idea, which got washed out because he found a girlfriend and moved from Bangalore to Delhi for her and then went US for MS to get married to her. I could have taken the idea ahead but due to some bullshit ethics I don't want to do it without him.
3. I got few more e-commerce ideas with my colleagues in FashionAndYou in Bangalore but dropped them because of competition, EMIs and dad's pressure. Main reason was no-one dared or was sure.
4. I moved to Gurgaon. My colleague Kashish in Tradus in Gurgaon had several ideas but we couldn't implement, again because we couldn't dare to start. We both left Tradus. I joined Cvent.
5. While I was in Tradus, my ex-manager introduced me to his friend Anshul who was an entrepreneur with an idea. Anshul offered me 30% equity and I called it 35%. He never called me back.
6. In Cvent, I planned several startups with colleagues but we couldn't start.
7. My neighbour Rohit in Gurgaon and I planned several things but those couldn't work out because he was in company switching mode first then switched. Then in a month, he switched again. So we did not get time. Rohit and I attended Lean Startup Machine. We decided to not drop the idea. But then I had to move to Mumbai and he moved to Noida. After coming to Mumbai, I discussed the ideas with my friend Sumeet in Kalyan, who had come home on vacation from Dubai. He found 2 ideas workable and left for Dubai.
8. One of the manager in Cvent Mahesh left Cvent and attended few workshops like LSM and planned to startup. He called and discussed 2 ideas with me and 2 more friends. But now noone is getting time for it.

In group 7, problem is we all are far away. 3 people in 3 different places Noida, Mumbai and Dubai.
In group 8, problem is all are busy but no idea where.

Not sure why is not so simple to just get started with a company. Now-a-days its so easy. May be I am a lazy one. This happens with everyone means I am not the only one. Everyone around me are wannabe entrepreneurs. Every random group of guys I hear at tea stalls discuss new ideas to startup. I am just another wannabe.

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