Entre vs Intre

As we enter into the placement season, one of my friends asked me this question – what is the difference between entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship? Here is an analogy:

Entre = I climb up the tree with risk of falling down and get my own ‘tender’ coconut and drink it up

Intre = Coconut in self-service mode with fickle just under the tree. Pick up the right coconut, open up without hurting yourself and drink up!

How different is it really? Forget the end (upside / downside limits in intre), the means are just the same in Intrapreneurial activities and entrepreneurship.

Intrapreneurship is entrepreneurship with lowered risk – don’t the VCs have lower risk propensity than the angels? Don’t PEs have lower risk propensity than VCs – does it mean VCs and PEs don’t take risk or don’t need entrepreneurial spirit? Guess u got where I am getting to. What links all of them together are three things: thrill in identifying or generating opportunities, managing risk and creating value.

 

Why pebbles?

At last, my dream to have a blog of my own comes to life!

Why the name – pebbles and parables? As I go through life, I learn many small things. I view them as pebbles of wisdom – ones that are glistened by the gliding stream of learning. In a way, the aged pebbles facilitate smoother water flow. In a way, another person could view it as just a stone. It cud even be a fun-toy, a beautiful piece of art or a weapon. While some of my pebbles may indeed be stones, there are certainly few things which you and me and the world, at large, acknowledge as ‘right’ and them I name as ‘parables’.

I intend to write brief snippets, just like parables, that cud be pebbles of wisdom, fun, anger or indeed just a stone.

by the way, the photo in the header was taken in bushkill falls, pa by me.