Age Is No Barrier In Entrepreneurship

When people don't want to accept a challenge, they give excuses. There are different types of excuses that we can hear. One among them is the age factor. People say they are too young to do this or are too old to do this. But there are examples when some extra-ordinary persons have been able to achieve the dreams that they took off with. In today's age of entrepreneurship, there are all sorts of entrepreneurs who start a variety of company. There are some students who have not got their voting cards, yet they have startups behind them. Then there are people who start a company at a age when many others retire. These are the extreme ends of the range. But there are people who in between have started and failed. Failure may not be due to the age factor. While that may be the case, but many a times, it is the other factors like vision, focus, execution, hard work, etc. that make or break a start up or an entrepreneur.

Take the name of Mr. Velumani, founder of Thyrocare, who left his government job and started Thyrocare. Normally it is better to start at an early age because the liabilities are minimal or not present. There is ample scope for learning and standing up after the fall. But as you grow older, there are more pitfalls. Normally people get married in their late twenties to early thirties. After they get married, there are many a responsibilities which care you want to take. And the thought of these responsibilities puts a bearing on whether or not you will take the jump in the entrepreneurship. Then there are people who have started their companies from school campus. If you want to take bigger names, then there Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, etc will be at the forefront. Closer home we have entrepreneurs like Phanindra Sama who had the guts to look in the eyes of the opportunity and create an enterprise. When he had to go home from college and wanted to check out with buses, he had to run here and there. It is then when he founded RedBus from college. Today there are many copies of the same business, but Phanindra was the pioneer. 

We also have Rahul Yadav, founder of Housing.com, who made Housing a famous name. What happened after that is altogether a different story. Then we also have Bhavish Aggarwal, who started Ola at a very young age. It take a lot of hard work and time to start the way these youngsters have done. It is very easy to take a job and sit back & relax. But they have found their own way. 

All the people have shown that Age is just a number and nothing else. It is only the hard work that matters.