{"id":1689,"date":"2015-09-08T18:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:33:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T10:03:54","slug":"random-thoughts-on-first-time-founders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/random-thoughts-on-first-time-founders\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts: On first time founders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1690\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150731_200942-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150731_200942\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150731_200942-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150731_200942-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMG_20150731_200942.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One advantage of living in Bangalore, Silicon Valley of India \u00a0is that you are surrounded by entrepreneurs as well as investors be it a microbrewery, cafe or restaurant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk to DYU Cafe at Kormangala or Starbucks koramangala\/Indiranagar or youngistaan indiranagar, you will see the action where a team is pitching to an investor or a team is working on building next million $$ startup. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am an extrovert and like interacting, talking to people around me as a result i made small note on the matrix which can make or break your startup.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Team<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Product market fit<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business model<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Product pricing<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Funding<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burn rate <\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advisors<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>If you are a First Time Founder which 3 are the most import matrix for you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The title has \u201cfirst time founder\u201d in it because you are most vulnerable to failure [unlike the experienced entrepreneurs ], which is not a bad thing. Its good to fail fast &amp; move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One advantage of living in Bangalore, Silicon Valley of India \u00a0is that you are surrounded by entrepreneurs as well as investors be it a microbrewery, cafe or restaurant. Walk to DYU Cafe at Kormangala or Starbucks koramangala\/Indiranagar or youngistaan indiranagar, you will see the action where a team is pitching to an investor or a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/random-thoughts-on-first-time-founders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Random Thoughts: On first time founders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,121,101],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}