[kamaal]

Your post smells like almost anybody who doesn't work in a start up is shit.

Its far more easier to say all this when you tons of financial support to fall back on in case of failures. And there are a lot of rich kids I know who do it. I have friends who happily didn't finish their graduation, worked at call centers and threw random efforts at businesses and failed. Often is such cases, some one else is footing the bill. And most of your failures are sponsored by the person's dad or elder brother.

In most of such cases its not risk that they are taking. They just don't have any more options left. They are not good at doing day jobs, because they have had it easily their whole lives. Such guys just can't work under a boss. So they feel business is what they need to do.

Now if you are struggling to pay your home rent, you have a sister to marry off and your Dad's retirement is due next year. I don't see why such a person should not take a job in a big company. You won't understand the plight of this guy, unless you walk in his shoes.

You can call him coward, or under confident or just not capable to taking risks. The fact is such a guy is fighting a daily battle to keep his affairs running. Big risks, with big financial failures are not possible for his already financially stressed life.

[ashray]

Huh? I never said anything like that, my post simply explains the rationalizations of why an IITian might not choose to work on a startup. I think you read into something but I can't figure out what it is.

All I wanted to say was that there are several good reasons that make perfect sense in the context for an IITian to not join a startup.

EDIT: Great, so you misread and then downvote ? I don't think that's how it's supposed to work =/