Validation – A touching movie (15 minutes)

By Rajesh Setty on Thu 18 Dec 2008, 10:47 AM - 7 Comments

Saravana Kumar from LightPharma in India sent me a link to this really cool movie. It’s only 15 minutes or so. I strongly urge that all of you please spend those 15 minutes to watch this. It will be well worth your time.

Thanks Saravana.

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Love and Entrepreneurship – Right from Bollywood

By Rajesh Setty on Mon 20 Oct 2008, 10:31 PM - 3 Comments

Love and Entrepreneurship go hand-in-hand I think. Think about it – you can’t be an entrepreneur if you can’t be TOTALLY PASSIONATE about your idea.

Over the weekend, I saw this Bollywood movie “Jab We Met” (meaning: When we met) starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor. Here is the video of the one of the songs called “Hum Jo Chalne Lage…” (the song begins after about 20 seconds)

The song is a romantic song but you can easily apply every bit of the audio to the story of an entrepreneur.

Here is the first piece of the song.. (in Hindi)

Hum Jo Chalne Lage
Chalne Lage Hai Yeh Raste
Haaan Haaan
Manzil Se Behtar Lagne Lage Hai Yeh Raste

Sort of translation to English:

We have started walking
Started walking this path
Yes, Yes
A path where the journey is better than the destination!

Can you see the similarity to how an entrepreneur views his startup

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October Sky – Against all odds!

By Rajesh Setty on Sat 05 Nov 2005, 6:05 AM - Leave Comment

My trip from Boston to San Jose couple of days ago had another
highlight. American Airlines was screening a movie called “October Sky”
and since I was confident that I will complete reading Grapevine(by David Balter)
quickly, I chose to watch the movie. What a good decision it was! I was
proud of myself. Sometimes I do make good decisions altough Kavitha (my
wife) says that it is just statistics in play

October Skyky is a true story of Homer Hickam, a young student from a
town where all the people are employees of a coal mine. Homer (the
protaganist) gets interested in building rockets after watching Sputnik
(the russian space shuttle) and getting inspired by Ms.Riley (his
teacher). The rest of the movie is a brilliant depiction of what all he
has to go through when he starts to chase his passion and dreams. While
he gets support from a few people, most people think that it is a
ridiculous idea and wants him to give up.

Homer Hickam is currently a NASA engineer training astronauts for space shuttle missions.

A movie worth watching for sure!

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Shawshank Redemption – Redefining persistence…

By Rajesh Setty on Tue 28 Jun 2005, 7:27 PM - 2 Comments

Shawshank Redemption has been one of my favorite movies for a long time.

Here’s my take:

The protagonist in Shawshank Redemption
is an amazing person and he was willing to wait a few years (working
silently) to finally achieve his objectives. Most professionals today
have an opposite attitude. They want instant results and instant
success. Unfortunately, life does not operate that way

I posted about this characteristic in the Distinguish Yourself series under the title “Think long term”

The protagonist completely redefines the meaning of the word “persistence”.

I was speaking with Seth Gottlieb this morning who shares the same opinion about the movie. Here’s Seth’s take on the movie:

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