In the early days of building taghash, I was way too desperate. Some customers made me run around them, giving me no business. I was sedated with an itch to build taghash to prove PMF, and as a result, many would not take me seriously. It has taken 7.5 years in business to realize that …
Author Archives: Atul
disagreement
There are times when we have disagreements in business or personal life. It can be due to unmet expectations, communication gaps, ego, or anything else. We are social beings. What differentiates us from other animals is our rational thinking. Disagreements need to be sorted out in a conversation, with both sides making a point of …
Nothing
When you start from nothing, you know there is nothing to lose. What worse can you do? We live multiple lives with societal dogma upon us. The sooner we start living in this nothingness, the more independent we will become. Our body is made of water and fat. Our consciousness defines us. Our will to …
Disconnect
Someday, you would like to disconnect from the world and hide. It helps with thinking and gives you more perspective. These days are the ones that open your creative brain and make you think out of the box. I call it lazy days. I want one or two days in a week to be lazy …
Excite
We need to ask what excites us and the team. Building anything is difficult. When you create something without a specific outcome, you need courage and belief. When we have a team excited and working together as one unit, all difficulties and challenges become easier to tackle. Finding people who are excited about the cause …
Plan
Many of us take very planned steps. We decide, define, and dedicate our actions accordingly. But life is very unpredictable. You can die at any moment, or all your joy can turn into pain. What should we do? One thing for sure is living in equilibrium now. It is not easy to live grounded and …
Stories
The stories we make, the stories we tell to our subconscious mind, and the stories about ourselves we wish to project are all different. We are constantly in a loop where “self” is in the center of everything. We change it like a mask on all occasions. We are in pain when our projected selves …
Questions
Question your decisions as a founder. It will keep you grounded. We live in a world where very few of our loved ones will give us honest feedback. The reason for this is that they don’t want to hurt us or affect the relationship with critical feedback. It can result in living as a frog …
chance
Life gives us opportunities to do our best for ourselves and others. It is on us to cease. It is easy to give up or become self-centered. What is required is thinking big and uplifting everyone around us. We tend to focus on what we don’t have and what we could have done with some …
Wealth
Teach your kids how to behave, teach them virtues, and give them autonomy and freedom to think without bias or pressure. All the money you are collecting for your kids will be gone if they are not taught the right virtues. Money is a means of living, but virtue goes a long way. It will …