The Pakistani Spectator

Starting up your own company in today’s niche and cut-throat industry isn’t a risk-free feat. But then nothing substantial is achieved without taking risks, and that is why “Startup Mania” is all about.

Running of a business from startup stage right through to corporation size has never been that accessible as it is right now. With the new technologies and the information explosion, things have been replenished to the brim by the nature for you, and now its upto you to dare.

There is nobody better to quote than good old Paul Graham, when it comes to startups:

“You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.

And that’s kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable. Hard, but doable. And since a startup that succeeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies getting rich is doable too. Hard, but doable. If there is one message I’d like to get across about startups, that’s it. There is no magically difficult step that requires brilliance to solve.”

Pakistan has got enough potential to really rock and roll the things, and the talent is literally flowing in the streets here. The need is to tap into this potential, and some efforts are beginning to emerge now. In a very commendable effort, a coffee-session was arranged by PASHA, Green and White, and PixSense in which a more than 75 young entrepreneurs participated. Same events are in the pipeline for Karachi and Lahore. TPS certainly look forward to them.