<story><title>Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity</title><url>http://economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/08/jugaad?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/questionsforsantoshostwal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>chime</author><text>This article both inspires and scares the hell out of me. If you&apos;ve decided to create a startup, you are in the same boat he was in 1991:&lt;p&gt;‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in ___________. That’s all.’&lt;p&gt;It inspires me because of the happy ending of sorts for him despite the hardships. Instead of being lost into obscurity, those late nights and years of losses will count for something. It scares me because I think this year is my 1991. I have decided on my career. ‘Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in communication systems for the mute / disabled.’&lt;p&gt;The truly scary part is that every single success (for varying definitions of success) story like this that I&apos;ve read talks about how much the inventor/entrepreneur suffered on the way. &quot;X lost his job, house, savings, significant order, family, friends, health, sanity, credibility...&quot;&lt;p&gt;The potential for tremendous losses on the way to success is scary because right now I already have everything I could ever want (loving wife, health, family, friends, career, money, house). I can keep everything I have by putting in my 8 hours/day or I can risk it all by saying &quot;Hi world. I&apos;m going to build devices/software that will help cerebral palsy / paralysis patients communicate better/faster with their loved ones.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Right now, I&apos;m preparing for the latter by building my savings.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity</title><url>http://economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/08/jugaad?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/questionsforsantoshostwal</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>noahth</author><text>not sure why the reference to duct-tape.  what&apos;s up with that?  he and his wife are both engineers and they prototyped in the middle of the night -- every night!</text></comment>