The Young and The Entrepreneur!

Startups are the latest vogue. For young intellectuals and techies, the Silicon Valley that once formed the crux of the IT industry is no more the most coveted place to be. Senior professionals from some of the world’s most leading companies have chosen to vacate their cushy seats and plush cabins in favour of meagre setups that give them the ‘thrill’ to work on something of their own. Thanks to the ubiquitously rising popularity of the startup culture.

But it takes extraordinary mettle, oodles of courage and the right bent of mind to launch a startup, and even greater magnitude of tolerance to sustain and perpetuate it. Saad Ahmed Sharif, a 25-year old Mumbai-based techie believes ‘startups are the future; they bridge the gap between ideas and reality’.

“Many big companies tend to tap in ideas that are huge, but we believe every big company was once an idea”, he adds. And that’s exactly what his startup (http://www.detentech.com) is all about. “We take ideas and turn them into reality. If you have an idea that’s offbeat and can make positive influence on our lives, we plug it into reality”.

Easier said than done, an idea must go through several layers of assessment involving market study, financial overhead and mass acceptance among other dimensions.

Speaking of the challenges at work, Saad exclaims for startups employee retention is an incessant challenge especially when the financial frontiers are still in infancy. For the same reasons, employees at his startup have no bounding work constraints but the defined deliverables.

With a hardwired spirit to turn ideas into reality, this young lad is fuelled by his concurrency of ideas for changing the way technology influences human life.

Saad, who was also unanimously elected as the Assistant Vice President of a healthcare IT firm in Mumbai at merely 23, explains the huge scope in health care and IT, saying it’s a confluence of two deeply connected episodes as health and technology go hand in hand in the future.

Saad, who pursued most of his education in Hyderabad, is a combination of wit, will and absolute talent refined by diverse experiences garnered while savouring different appellations at work. The ooze of academia and professional zest however doesn’t hamper his creative side. He also volunteers online for the United Nations and is a group speaker and community leader at Microsoft User Group. Saad also holds a Guinness World Record for the “World’s Largest Gathering of Chefs” held in UAE.

His startup has already been selected for representation at The Pirate Summit 2014 in Germany in September. Another Hyderabad-based techie Rehan Khan, who single-handedly developed a utilitarian app called “Life Saver” now runs “Developer’s Nest”, a startup aimed at bringing utile software to the masses.

While techies like Saad and Rehan go an extra mile on path where many, apprehending the challenges, wouldn’t dare to tread, several modestly educated youngsters in Hyderabad have taken to entrepreneurship by setting up their own restaurants, game parlours, tailoring shops and grocery stores. The government funding channelled by the Andhra Pradesh State Minority Finance Corporation is spinning employment opportunities for the enthusiastic and the less privileged youngsters.

What more, Mr. K.T. Rama Rao, the Information Technology Minister for Telangana announced to set up India’s Biggest Technology Incubator in Hyderabad. The setup, due to be operational in about 6 months time, will aid budding tech entrepreneurs and students while encouraging them to thrust their ideas into the realms of reality.

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