after a 13year corporate career rajul jain in 2009 launched yebhi a fashion and lifestyle portal in five years of operations the company struggled through a cash crisis with no money to pay vendors or employees and a rift among the cofounders on strategy though yebhi raised 30 million rs 190 crore over multiple funding rounds from nexus venture partners fidelity growth partners india qualcomm ventures and catamaran ventures it was unable to raise more money which eventually forced the founding team to bring down the shutters in january 2014 by the time yebhi closed i was 40 years old and couldnt gather enough courage to start up again said jain who joined fashion eretailer myntra as senior vice president of supply chain three months later we did too many things too fast and ended up in a situation where even our investors stopped supporting us jains story is one among many in which founders shut or quit their ventures and opted for the safer haven of the ninetofive although a glamorised career choice these days entrepreneurship is not everyones bread and butter besides being muddled with sacrifices around personal and social life and money theres the added pressure of quickly scaling a business ensuring steady cash flow to pay salaries and sharing managerial space with key external professionals the number one cause is an unwillingness to go all the way and have that grit to finish the race which in this case can be seven to eight years entrepreneurship needs adjusting for an elongated period a lifestyle which will be lower than what you were leading earlier said shailesh vikram singh an angel investor and executive director at seedfund most people are not willing to give that up especially when theres always a nice and breezy window of a job offer available from corporates or the assumption that entrepreneurship is all about hitting 1 billion in sales in five years that may hold for a country like israel for a diverse economy like indias setting up a good metal working shop by a former head of manufacturing is an example of quality entrepreneurship too said g sabarinathan chairperson of iimbangalores entrepreneurship cell nsrcel of the more than 50 ventures incubated at the centre about a dozen have possibly disappeared said sabarinathan three of those were because the founders fell into disagreement while nearly in all of them the entrepreneurs have dropped out i would imagine 1015 of them did get back to corporate roles in some instances more than one founder per enterprise he said so why is the other side compelling for some intrapreneurship in which people in corporate roles take ownership and responsibility for a business is one factor once an entrepreneur always an entrepreneur and a few former founders have found themselves working with a similar philosophy ideate build cocreate but by leveraging existing networks and resources while fuelling the system with an entrepreneurial culture a case in point is amarinder dhaliwal who cofounded donebynone