In the early days of building your company, it is you alone and your belief in the product, market, idea, and execution. As the journey progresses, you realize there are many stakeholders. In short, you have a village to work with and for their success. You will not succeed if you are aiming for your …
Category Archives: startups
Sane
The life of an entrepreneur is hard. Still, many of us knuckleheads take the stride. We are swimming in uncertainty and unknowns. What keeps the journey going is the self-belief and going against all odds. It is easy to draw a month-on-month salary and enjoy weekends and family time. The amount of stress and overall running …
Special
Time and again, founders end up treating some team member special or something like 10X capable. As a result, we give them our golden care. It is one of the gravest mistakes a founder can make. It affects company culture and processes. It results in a toxic culture in the future. A founder has to …
Phase
Running a startup is like water flowing from glaciers and changing its course at every stage. When water is at a high altitude, it has high currents. It moves fast in that small path but moves fast to the plain. There is no defined path for it. It takes many curves and makes too much …
Race
Time and again, I have to remind my founder friends that building on VC money is different from building bootstrap way. Raising from others, you are accountable and have to progress at a certain pace. The progress of company investor’s incentives are hard aligned. The expectations of the founder and investor need to be aligned. …
believers
B2B sales and SaaS business is more about believers using your product than marketing. It is about your customers knowing how you are changing their lives. There needs to be constant education, teaching, and information sharing. Let go of your customers who will not vouch for you, who will not use your product for what …
connect
Few people dislike making intros.I don’t understand the reason behind it.It could be about their reputation or guarding their networks.I have come across many such folks. We at Taghash got lucky.Our customers connected us to many others.Here in Dubai, I have had meetings with customers intros.They opened up their contact list for the intros.We are …
relationships
What works in sales is relationships, my little learning in the journey of taghash. Many young professionals forget this fact. They see it in numbers and succumb to the pressure. People buy from people they like. People believe in originality. When in sales, solving customers’ pain should be supreme. You have to have a level …
PMF
I feel sad seeing the plight of founder friends who raised millions and burning cash like there is no end.With the new normal, investors are asking founders to cut costs. And turn profitable overnight.As a result, there is mass layoff.In the first place, these companies had no PMF and burnt money in all directions to …
hiring @ Taghash
We are hiring at Taghash. Please write directly to sudheesh@taghash.io. All these roles are in our Udupi, Karnataka office.