{"id":6710,"date":"2023-01-21T01:10:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2023-01-21T01:15:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T19:45:09","slug":"founders-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/21\/founders-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"founder’s curse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Running a startup is not easy. I have been building Taghash<\/a> for over six years and am lucky to have Krishna<\/a> with me. We didn’t have a smooth sail. I felt like adding some learning to our journey. I call it the founder’s curse because as a founder, we don’t get everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. A founder’s job is lonely at the top.<\/li>
  2. Founders are responsible for all the failures.<\/li>
  3. The success gets distributed among all.<\/li>
  4. A founder has no personal or professional life. They are 24\/7 in their startup.<\/li>
  5. Find a partner who understands this. Else stay unmarried or single.<\/li>
  6. Your team and customers are more important than anyone else. Treat them all with care.<\/li>
  7. Avoid media, press, or glitz. Focus on building business.<\/li>
  8. Stay away from taking advice from any random stranger or folks. You live 24\/7 in the journey. You understand the pain more than anyone else.<\/li>
  9. Spend time on personal well-being. Pick yoga, running, dancing, or whatever keeps you energized.<\/li>
  10. Disappear from the world, rejuvenate, read, plan and ideate.<\/li>
  11. Find mentors in front of whom you are naked, who will not judge you or laugh at your vulnerabilities.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    As a founder be aware whose advice you are talking. Enterpreneurship is very lonely at the top. You are responsible for all the mistakes.<\/p>— Atul Jha (@koolhead17) January 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>