{"id":5606,"date":"2021-07-01T13:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T08:12:51","slug":"mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/01\/mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been part of multiple funded startups. As a stakeholder, we are chasing a mirage: An investor bets on growth for the future. A founder sells his equity at a premium showing the total addressable market and disruption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On most occasions, this does not work out and, the company shuts its doors. An investor knows out of 10 companies 9 will fail. One will recover all their investment across the fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many founders are battle-tested with the scar of multiple stents in varied persona, continue chasing the mirage. The lust of chasing a mirage and making it a reality is something the ecosystem cheers celebrates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been part of multiple funded startups. As a stakeholder, we are chasing a mirage: An investor bets on growth for the future. A founder sells his equity at a premium showing the total addressable market and disruption. On most occasions, this does not work out and, the company shuts its doors. An investor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/01\/mirage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mirage&#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":[100,3,121],"tags":[1156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606"}],"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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}