{"id":4388,"date":"2020-03-14T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2020-03-14T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T08:16:17","slug":"corona-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/14\/corona-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Corona Virus is talk of the hour. Be it twitter, phone, WhatsApp, everywhere is surfaces. WHO has declared it a pandemic. It started in China and now traveled across the world. It will take at least 18 months to ship a vaccine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is elderly who are worst affected by this virus. The dogs are safe. Our government is on high alert with the task force, precautions in place. Schools, colleges, malls, theaters are closed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are yet to see the economic side of it. Will it move us into another recession, I have no clue. The market is reeling though it thought, it is in shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts on Twitter are claiming, worst is still to come. Some are saying it is going to be worst than the 2008 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I and my co-founder were out for breakfast today. The only thing came to our mind was: How will we survive thought this?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a small team, we came up with 3 take-ups away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Keep delighting our customers. Iterate and ship improvements.<\/li><li>Tough times are temporary, relationships are for permanent. Keep it in mind.<\/li><li>Do a feature freeze, focus on our strength.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I am sure many of you would be having your principles to stick by at this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-investor-039-s-field-guide\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uwjUDMGNpm\"><a href=\"http:\/\/investorfieldguide.com\/benchmark\/\">Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta \u2013 An Update on Consumer &#038; Enterprise Venture Capital &#8211; [Invest Like the Best, EP.162]<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/investorfieldguide.com\/benchmark\/embed\/#?secret=uwjUDMGNpm\" data-secret=\"uwjUDMGNpm\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Bill Gurley and Chetan Puttagunta \u2013 An Update on Consumer &#038; Enterprise Venture Capital &#8211; [Invest Like the Best, EP.162]&#8221; &#8212; The Investor&#039;s Field Guide\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many VC firms giving blanket advice to freeze hiring today<br><br>Probably good advice on average, today, across a portfolio<br><br>But if your cash runway is long\/deep, <br><br>I would use this time to hire those 3 really great engineers you need<\/p>&mdash; Jason \u2728#SaaStrftw\u2728 Lemkin \ud83e\udd84 (@jasonlk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonlk\/status\/1238469834599313414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corona Virus is talk of the hour. 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