{"id":7000,"date":"2023-06-08T12:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:10:21","slug":"desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We lose sales, and our relationship gets sour because of our desperation. We should realize that things in life take time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we become desperate, we end up becoming obsessed.<br>As a result, we forget to see things rationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early days of building our company, I was so desperate for initial customers that I gave away products for free for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasted 6-8 months seeking feedback from people who were not my actual customers. Even now, they will have advice for me but not money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are desperate, you lower your value in the eye of others. Let things take their course. Do not rush, and don&#8217;t be desperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lose sales, and our relationship gets sour because of our desperation. We should realize that things in life take time. When we become desperate, we end up becoming obsessed.As a result, we forget to see things rationally. Early days of building our company, I was so desperate for initial customers that I gave away &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/08\/desperate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;desperate&#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":[1506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000"}],"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=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}