I am a Dreamer but I am not the only one – John Lennon

Some of the most famous personalities in the history have been people who dared to dream and worked diligently to achieve their goals. Some of the names I had been enamored with while I was growing up were Sardar Patel, JRD Tata, Dhirubhai Ambani, Narayanamurthy and lots of others. These were the visionaries who changed the course of history of a nation through their dreams, courage and hard work.

Sardar Patel’s vision brought together a motley collection of princely states into the largest democratic nation, JRD Tata created one of the biggest diversified manufacturing conglomerate while at the same time creating the base for the nation’s airlines, Dhirubhai created, perhaps the most enchanted story and the company ever in the history of the nation in terms of scale and vision, and Narayanamurthy, another legend in his own right changed the technology industry by creating one of the most vibrant technology services company. Then there are people like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (HP), and Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google) who have created visionary companies. Not to discount the fact there are countless small scale entrepreneurs who have contributed to keep the society vibrant and innovative.

So, what does differentiate these entrepreneurs from the common man? Why is it that most of us dream about creating something but only some of us actually go ahead with it? There have been countless books written by experts and experienced business professionals but do they really prepare us for the grueling life of creating a dream from the scratch? Countless courses and MBA programs train people in the art of entrepreneurship but what really drives them? We hear about the successful people but do we really think about countless other people who started down this path but have failed?

These were some of the questions we had when we started down this path of starting our very own firm. This blog is an attempt is to get our experiences down including the excitement, frustration, successes and failures.

eZdia is our dream which started from two people Alok and Deepak and their zeal to do something that impacts the lives of people in a positive way. So, they started out with different ideas on the table which then got refined further with the addition of three more members of the core team (Anand, Amit and Rahul). Thus, eZdia was born with the dream of creating The Knowledge marketplace for the people where everyone gets a platform to learn and share their expertise regardless of the physical location and time.

Now that we are close to the public launch of our online platform and in discussions with potential partners, I have tried to take those initial discussions, thought processes, countless nights executing on them and have put them down in this blog. The intent is not to pass judgment but share our experiences and also to get feedback and suggestions from all the people out there so that we can all come together and enrich all of our lives together.