Big Star--Rajesh Jain

RJ(Rajesh Jain)是一个Blogger,这是我的第一个印象.
吸引我关注其blog的,是他的视野和观点.后来,我甚至开始学习他的写作模式;最近对blog的布局进行修改时,更多参照的,就是他及keso的样式.

偶尔想过,自己学习的这个Blogger很可能是个Big Star呢.可是,直到通过抓虾订阅其RSSfeed发现自己是唯一的订户,才决定进一步了解他.

果然,一个Big Star!一个印度的Blogger曾经专门写过一篇blog,题目就是Moment with RJ,他把RJ看作精神导师了:)
看RJ的自我介绍,知道他的求学经历,比如曾在哥伦比亚大学读研究生.他还创建过一个叫做IndiaWorld的印度第一个门户网站,后来被印度第一的ISP以115millon$的价格收购.RJ现在创建和运营着一个名叫NetCore的公司,致力于帮助中小企业新兴市场的转型和互联网应用,他的blog名字就叫做Emergic.

RJ曾经写过,现在依然在写许多精彩的文字,主要是关于企业家,新兴市场,技术应用等方面.他的Emergic是我看过的最具可读性的blog之一,其间美妙的观点和摘引,都令人赞叹.
中文关于RJ的网页不多,Google搜索其中文名拉济什*基恩,只有4个结果,而英文名Rajesh Jain的相关结果则有942,000之多.

RJ在一次采访中,回答了这样一个问题:
Do you have any advice or words of wisdom for people starting their own businesses?

从他的答案,我们可以大致看到他的价值观:

Based on my experiences, there are three things that I’d like to tell people starting their own businesses:

Dream Big: I think vision is very important. More than anything else, it is the Vision Thing that drives an entrepreneur. Passion comes from the Vision – the ability to see a future that is different from today. It is this future that the entrepreneur seeks to create. This is the higher-level purpose that an entrepreneur has – to build something that does not exist, to explore horizons that others have not. Never be afraid to dream big, but then also take steps to make that dream a reality.

Use Failure as a Teacher: An entrepreneur must be prepared to experience and learn from failure. As an entrepreneur, there will be more “down” days than “up” days. These days and periods test the entrepreneur’s patience. There are times when one may feel like just giving up. But one must persevere. Failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One will come with the other. Success hides the problems, failures magnify them. It is failure that teaches us how to do things right – provided we are prepared to accept failure and learn from it.

Combine Optimism with Realism: Even as entrepreneurs are the ultimate optimists (and they have to be), that has to be tempered with the ability to also confront reality. A balance is needed. In the early stages of a venture, it is only the optimism of the entrepreneur that will help tide over the challenges. But as time goes on, it is also necessary to do course correction based on the reality of the situation. Entrepreneurs have to be careful not to be blind-sided by developments, and for this it is necessary to expose themselves to alternate viewpoints.

显然,要向RJ学习的,远不止是怎么写Blog.