Since I have the privacy of my Blog to retire to, i can happily rant about the roller coaster ride that a startup is. First there is the romantic association that any adventure and hardship usually gets associated to, there are all those visions of towering victory and unspeakable glory.
Very few will realise that like in any battlefield only a few soilders live to tell the tale. However the battle must be fought, the hardwork done, for it is on the slain body of innumerable soilders is freedom won!!
Rhetoric aside, its been a gruelling 8 months for us. We finish August today and it's not funny. We pivoted once and we are on our second pivot. We are wiser, we are sharper and we are faster. We dont crave perfection any more, we just seek to fulfill real demand in the market.
That is how any startup must be. However the mistakes we made must be made. Just like you can never learn to cycle without falling down, there always is a certain point, an inflexion point beyond which u realise u can actually ride the bloody bicycle. You wont get there wondering. You wont get there planning, you will only get there by getting on and pedalling your fears away.
I remember when I learnt to cycle, you would have someone who's holding on. You realise the joy of pedalling but the balance is just not there. You try, you fall, you try again and you fall. But at some point you actually manage to go a decent distance before u fall. This is the point where you realise you can do it.
Its true of everything in Life, I feel. Cut to today, I can ride pretty much a two wheeler or a bicycle of any form and size. It is second nature. Same with Cars. You got to get out there and do it.Everybody does, so why cant you.
I tell myself the same about business. Every body does it why cant I ? There's the fruit seller, there's Maharaja Chat with more Facebook likes than us, why cant we get there. We fell off the Bicycle a couple of times. We can now see a way for us to stay on. We need to keep at it. Soon, it'll be second nature.
Rock your weekend folks!!
Very few will realise that like in any battlefield only a few soilders live to tell the tale. However the battle must be fought, the hardwork done, for it is on the slain body of innumerable soilders is freedom won!!
Rhetoric aside, its been a gruelling 8 months for us. We finish August today and it's not funny. We pivoted once and we are on our second pivot. We are wiser, we are sharper and we are faster. We dont crave perfection any more, we just seek to fulfill real demand in the market.
That is how any startup must be. However the mistakes we made must be made. Just like you can never learn to cycle without falling down, there always is a certain point, an inflexion point beyond which u realise u can actually ride the bloody bicycle. You wont get there wondering. You wont get there planning, you will only get there by getting on and pedalling your fears away.
I remember when I learnt to cycle, you would have someone who's holding on. You realise the joy of pedalling but the balance is just not there. You try, you fall, you try again and you fall. But at some point you actually manage to go a decent distance before u fall. This is the point where you realise you can do it.
Its true of everything in Life, I feel. Cut to today, I can ride pretty much a two wheeler or a bicycle of any form and size. It is second nature. Same with Cars. You got to get out there and do it.Everybody does, so why cant you.
I tell myself the same about business. Every body does it why cant I ? There's the fruit seller, there's Maharaja Chat with more Facebook likes than us, why cant we get there. We fell off the Bicycle a couple of times. We can now see a way for us to stay on. We need to keep at it. Soon, it'll be second nature.
Rock your weekend folks!!
