Best Movies/TV Series for Aspiring Entrepreneurs to Watch

Regardless of what anumber of books you read on starting your own business and being a successful entrepreneur, there’s nothing like a visual manual for enabling you to set out on this trip. Late years have seen an invasion of prevalent TV series spinning around new companies and business enterprise that are making it to each youthful business person’s ‘must watch’ list. So here’s introducing a rundown of some awesome TV series/movies which will draw out the business visionary in you.

TVF Pitchers (Indian Web Series)

I want to start this list with one of the very few original web series in India. The only Indian web series to ever make a mark, worldwide with its exceptional storyline, direction and dialogues. This series signifies entrepreneurial artefacts that will surely help you not only become an entrepreneur BUT a ‘Jugaadu Indian Entrepreneur’.

The show is about four friends busy in their own circle of life and job issues; who finally decide to give up their lucrative jobs to set up a technology startup in Hiranandani Powai, an emerging hub for entrepreneurs in Mumbai’s suburb. The story explores the challenges that young entrepreneurs face in India — from building a software and raising funds to parental pressure and copyright infringement.

Lesson here — This show simply narrates the story of every other Indian who aspires to become an entrepreneur. But in India it’s just not about following your passion, doing the hard work, beating the competition and becoming an entrepreneur. It’s much more than that. It’s about how the profession is looked down upon here and it’s just not a war within you. It’s against everyone who nurse such mentality.

Silicon Valley (American Television Series)

Silicon Valley is the Emmy-nominated HBO series created by Mike Judge, Alec Berg, John Altschuler. Here are few of the major business upshot from the spot-on satire of startup life in the Valley.

• Understand the law

All through Silicon Valley, understanding the law is a noteworthy subject in the undertakings of building a business. For example, a noteworthy inquiry in past seasons focused on responsibility for licensed innovation for Pied Piper’s calculation, which was produced on a PC at Hooli, the startup’s tech giant nemesis. In season 4, the Piper Chat group gets some significant inconvenience after coincidentally neglecting to represent a law in regards to the internet use. And the law comes with a hefty fine.

Lesson here — Before propelling your organization, ensure you thoroughly consider any potential situation that could get you in a bad position — and find a way to keep these from working out as expected.

• Check patents

The idea of “who claims it” additionally applies to a thought that Richard(protagonist) incubates right off in season 4. After a frantic hunt to unearth “new internet,” a revelation of records that may prompt some genuine advance influences the youthful business person to feel that he has struck gold. A careful look into patent history, however, throws another curveball into the plot, leading Richard struggling to stay hopeful.

Lesson here — just because you think you know who has the intellectual property rights, those could have transferred if the previous creator formed new business partnerships.

Shark Tank (Reality Show)

Business visionaries who make it onto a “Shark Tank” scene have the chance to acquaint their organization with a survey group of onlookers of 7 million potential clients.

The startups/businesses that land a deal with at least one of the show’s speculator shark, then have the opportunity to scale and, in some cases, turn into a broadly perceived brand.

Lesson here —

• Your odds are as good as anyone’s
• Focus on the customer, not on yourself

The Social Network (Hollywood Movie)

As an entrepreneur aspirant watching this film, here are the lessons I see from watching “The Social Network”:

• Sometimes there are more important things in life than school.
• It’s not about who has an idea but who can execute it.

There’s a phrase that says, “There are no original ideas.” Also, a lot of mystics, saints and sages believe that all human beings are tapped into the “Universal Mind” and that we all have access to the same ideas and inspiration. It’s all about who is listening and who has the chops to pull it off.

The Pursuit of Happyness (Hollywood Movie)

It’s been over 10 years since the arrival of ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’, but still after so many years; it sticks in my mind as an iconic motivational film. Everybody ought to have seen this film, and particularly the individuals who have their own particular dreams that might be continually put around others.

As a recap, The Pursuit of Happyness is an in light of a genuine story of the life of a single parent, attempting to make a superior life for him and his child. Chris Gardner (will smith) fights time of vagrancy alongside his child trying to make a living selling medical bone density scanners, while additionally being enlisted in a temporary position as a stockbroker.

Here are few of the major business related knowledge that this movie establishes through its wonderful screenplay:

• Things May Become Worse Before They Get Better

What makes Chris Gardner’s story so inspirational is that he had such a hard struggle before he finally became successful.

• Don’t Be Afraid to Aim High

From Chris Gardener’s current position as a relatively unsuccessful salesman, going for a job as a stockbroker may have seemed pretty high to a lot of people. After all, he had to go through the internship and even then, only 1 person would be offered the job.

Lesson here — The road to happiness is full of setbacks

All these movies and series not only inspire to do something new or innovative but also provide with a lot of knowledge about the startup ecosystems, life of an entrepreneur and how tough of a job it is and no profession is easy.