{"id":6768,"date":"2023-02-15T13:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:56:30","slug":"the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a few chapters into Murakami&#8217;s &#8212; &#8220;Novelist as a Vocation.&#8221; I liked the way Author explained how a writer&#8217;s life is not about beginner&#8217;s luck but constantly delivering the best of their work. It requires lots of grit, pain, sweat, and perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar analogy applies to Venture Capital business. I have heard multiple times from<a href=\"https:\/\/blume.vc\/team\/karthik-reddy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Karthik, Co-founder &amp; Partner of Blume Ventures<\/a>; mention that: you have to find winners and returns for your stakeholders in every fund. A fund is typically ten years cycle. It is a long game and requires consistency, grit and hard work, and some luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like being in the ring and constantly winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a few chapters into Murakami&#8217;s &#8212; &#8220;Novelist as a Vocation.&#8221; I liked the way Author explained how a writer&#8217;s life is not about beginner&#8217;s luck but constantly delivering the best of their work. It requires lots of grit, pain, sweat, and perseverance. A similar analogy applies to Venture Capital business. I have heard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/15\/the-ring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the ring&#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":[249],"tags":[1456,1455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768"}],"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=6768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6769,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6768\/revisions\/6769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}