{"id":8154,"date":"2025-12-22T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=8154"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:11:48","slug":"river-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/river-2\/","title":{"rendered":"River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Building a startup is like a flowing river stream.<br>When it starts from the glacier, it has a strong current with no defined course. Over time, when it reaches the plains, it becomes more predictable, steady, and controlled. With the passing of time, the same applies: it meets the sea and becomes a world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journey of building a startup is no less than a river. In the initial days, it is full of energy: seeking PMF, hiring like-minded people, and taking all the risks. The chances of failure are extreme. After a few years, it becomes more predictable, but the operations, passion, and perseverance of the founder are what result in the team delivering and taking the company to newer heights: aiming for an IPO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a startup is like a flowing river stream.When it starts from the glacier, it has a strong current with no defined course. Over time, when it reaches the plains, it becomes more predictable, steady, and controlled. With the passing of time, the same applies: it meets the sea and becomes a world. The journey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/22\/river-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;River&#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":[805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154"}],"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=8154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8154\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}