Posted on 02/21/2015 6:17:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the good old days, if they fell in love in B-school, got married and kicked off a career, the choices were predictable — if it was an MBA in marketing, it had to be a role in a consumer goods multinational (think Hindustan Unilever or Procter & Gamble or Nestle); if it was finance, the husband-wife duo inevitably found themselves at rival investment banks on Dalal Street.
These days, it's a bit different. Many couples who met in school or college — not just B-schools — are taking the long and invigorating walk down the aisle of entrepreneurship. And, they reckon, if we can live together we can work together too — at our own, carefully-nurtured fledglings.
So goodbye Job Street, hello startups. "The more ambitious among the youth, who also are endowed with confidence in their abilities, choose the path of entrepreneurship rather than highpaying jobs," says professor Prabal K Sen, chairperson of the Entrepreneurship Development Centre at XLRI, Jamshedpur.
If they're starting up together, it's also because the wife is an equal partner in the business, not just a sleeping one (at a few of the startups profiled here, the wife is the CEO, calling the shots). "There were ventures earlier too with the wife as a partner, but she would be a sleeping partner as wives traditionally are in family businesses," says professor MS Rao, chairperson of Center for Entrepreneurship at Mumbai's SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.
If couples see virtue in venturing together, it's because they know each other inside out. As Michael Lazerow wrote in Inc: "You should start a company with someone whose strengths are your weaknesses, and whose weaknesses are your strengths."
He should know....
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My neighborhood is being taken over by Indians,
Where is that at?
Howard county Maryland.
They and Koreans are flocking here for the public schools
Five Howard County high schools ranked on Newsweek
My main problem is that they are unsocial, probably because of their large numbers here.
I beat an Indian (red dot, not woo woo) at a salvage auction over a lot of chairs. I got a really good deal.
You’d a thought I’d grabbed his wife the way he bitched and moaned! I finally had to tell him to go p*** up a rope.
I should have told him to do the magic rope trick, then p*** up it, but hindsight is 20/20.
I think suburbanites are anti social in general.
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