{"id":5317,"date":"2021-02-08T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:06:59","slug":"done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/done\/","title":{"rendered":"done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep hearing what it takes to run a startup. Reading the success of oldies like Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway and, a dozen others makes me realize: there is no secret sauce. There was a problem to be solved and, the founders worked hard to solve it. They were opinionated, visionary. Nobody asked for a car from Henry Ford; nobody asked for an electric bulb from Edison. And everyone made fun of Wrights&#8217; brothers&#8217; crazy dream of flying like a bird. Japan emerged into an Industrial hub after the war. It was perseverance and hard work that played along with government policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I always remember <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abperiasamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"AB (opens in a new tab)\">AB<\/a>&#8216;s advice a few years back: Companies die when founders give up also Jeff Bezos&#8217;s famous quote:  it is always day zero.<br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world of startups we are living in now celebrates fundraising and building in public. A very few know what goes behind the social network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going through these tweets and, it made me write today&#8217;s post. <\/p>\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\">Entrepreneurship is a swinging yo-yo between unchecked confidence and extreme self-doubt, many times a day!<\/p>&mdash; Aloke Bajpai (@alokebajpai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alokebajpai\/status\/1358436842702426112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 7, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\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\">The ability to keep your head down and build (quietly) away from the public gaze is a SUPERPOWER in the current startup world.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Entrepreneurship?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Entrepreneurship<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/founders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#founders<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anshu Prasher (@anshuprasher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anshuprasher\/status\/1358634416797548545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing what it takes to run a startup. Reading the success of oldies like Walmart, Berkshire Hathaway and, a dozen others makes me realize: there is no secret sauce. There was a problem to be solved and, the founders worked hard to solve it. They were opinionated, visionary. Nobody asked for a car &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/done\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;done&#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":[100,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"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=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5318,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}