Yellowish and brusque – like the kernels of corn, sitting at the end of the long conference table, the pages of the magazine looked surreal .Young, restless, with an urge to fall off the monotonies of everyday life. Entrepreneurship is like how the yellowish and brusque kernels slowly expand, and then suddenly puff up when heated.

We have witnessed exponential growth in the number of start-ups in the recent past – Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal of Flipkart, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm, Naveen Tewari of InMobi, Kunal Behl and Rohit Bansal of Snapdeal, Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Cabs, Deepinder Goyal of Zomato.

Entrepreneurship gives young people an opportunity to work on their own skills and interests and in the process, creating their own employment. Encouraging entrepreneurship in young people is harnessing their enthusiasm, energy and ambition to contribute to economic development of a nation. Young entrepreneurs can also act as role models for their peers and. With 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world's largest youth population. Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can live the rest of your life like most can’t.

We need flexible policy environments and funding to stimulate and build the framework of an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and more importantly, a culture of interaction and collaboration.

More kernels should burst.