As a founder, you are challenging yourself against all odds every day. Your days are a sum of rejections, failures, and successes. It is like sailing on unchartered territory with no end to it. One thing which keeps you going against all the naysayers is your purpose. It acts as a torch or light. The …
Author Archives: Atul
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is not a badge of honour.It is a purpose-driven everyday life grunt.Things will break during the journey or work out. It requires a lot of focus and dedication, unlike what the media and internet portray. The amount of hoopla startup press has created about founders; I won’t be surprised kids without going to school …
Company
I will be turning 37 in a few weeks.I have been struggling ass off with Krishna for over the five years in building Taghash. We are finally somewhere in the journey of building our company.The journey with limited resources can be challenging.One of the few things that worked in our favor: was the people we …
unknown
We, humans, are still evolving. The fields of science, biology, and the human brain have just scratched the surface. We are still dying of bacteria and viruses. We are vulnerable like our previous generation. We are still working on finding the meaning of DNA and what it holds uniquely for us. In short, we are …
outcome
I have been part of the VC industry for the past 7-8 years and have had my fair share of learning. A founder should know what they are getting into and also the outcome. You are one of the many founders your stakeholders are backing to maximize their wealth. Our ecosystem had too much cash …
click
We don’t have to click with everyone.It is perfectly alright.We should focus on spending time with people with whom our chemistry matches well. We have limited time to live. We are not here to make everyone happy. No two people are the same, and neither are their opinions or consciousness.
sales
I would recommend everyone to get into a sales role in their lifetime. The earlier one gets, the more experience it makes you better a person. Sales teach us about rejection and celebrating our small win. It makes us more grateful and reminds us of the importance of personal relationships. We become successful in sales …
competition
Last few weeks, I have heard from a few friends about competitors and how one should run fast and whatnot. In the last five years of building taghash, we have not gotten into FOMO of competition. The only thing that has worked for us is working closely with customers, solving their pain, and charging for …
matters
When we are in a team, we care about success together. It is more like an army working together for a cause. The incentive is the organization’s success above all. It is leadership 101. We forget taking care of the team, treating everyone well, and keeping health above all are not something prioritized. Everything ends …
grateful
We are not grateful enough. We tend to focus on what we don’t have. Where or how someone did not help us. We are angry and burnt for what did not work for us. Our life on this planet is limited, and going through what we don’t have or who did not champion our cause …