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 …
Category Archives: startups
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 …
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 …
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 …
Commitment
Getting early adopters makes the product development process easy.We started onboarding only a few early adopters on a module basis.It saved a lot of our time and money. We had a customer waiting to consume it. Some early adopters also paid us because they were keen to solve their pain points. Everyone has free time …
persona
Part of building a successful product is sticking to a particular persona. It gives you ample visibility of existing pain points of customers. With persona in mind, we know what we are not building. It keeps us more focused. People building large enterprises did not start it from day one. They learned and moved up …
ass
India’s startup culture is a mix of good and bad.We have copied mostly bad things from the west. Some founders or investors are still carrying their ass persona with them. We know what happened to such folks in the valley. Being high on adrenaline is not a sign of smartness but inferiority. People don’t earn …
Chaos
Running a startup is sailing through utter chaos.Every day comes with its surprise.It is not for a faint heart. We have to live each day as it comes.Keeping a castle or future hope makes life more miserable. What helps is knowing the challenge and belief of moving forward and learning from the mistakes. It is …