Pranay's Blog

DON’T ALWAYS PLAY SAFE What does it take to be an entrepreneur? Is it enough to just have ideas?   I myself am not an entrepreneur, but with a bit understanding of it, I can confidently say that just having some revolutionary ideas in mind is not enough to succeed as an entrepreneur. It takes a lot more to revolutionise the world. One such thing is the having the courage to take risks. It is not important to always play safe, and sometimes for even big companies, it can become a question for survival. Sometimes, the biggest mistake can be avoiding making a mistake.   Writing this statement, a lot of companies come to my mind. Some to name are: NOKIA: Nokia was one of the most successful mobile phone manufacturers till the Apple, Samsung and rest of the gang took over. Nokia didn’t change their product for a long time and thus, it became monotonous.   A senior researcher at Nokia came forward with the invention of touch-screen technology and a...

3rd August'18 Delhi Technological University Preparing really hard for JEE, I was partly satisfied with the college I got. There was some regret of not getting my desired branch in a good IIT, still there was a satisfaction of having got Computer Science in DTU. So, here's about the very first day I spent in my college. On my very first day at DTU, I was  lost ! So, on 2nd August we had our orientation program at the end of which was a campus tour. Since I was really tired after all the formalities I decided to skip the campus tour thinking that I would have enough time to know about the campus in the coming 4 years of my stay at DTU. ( The biggest mistake! ) Now comes the next day. We had an induction program scheduled to make students acquainted about different things that DTU provides its students. My group was supposed to assemble at the sports complex by 9 in the morning. I reached the campus gate by around 8:50 and it took me more than half an hour to get to t...