Categories: Borrowed Thoughts

Startup Reality

A borrowed line from an article, perfectly describes my status.

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130607051230-52906-startups-are-not-glamorous?trk=tod-home-art-large_0

Building a startup isn’t glamorous at all. It’s bloody hard work, requires tremendous investments of time, energy and commitment. It consumes all of your emotional energy, and all of your attention. Building a startup means hardly having time for family, no time for a real social life, no time to take holidays, and every single minute of your waking life is devoted to thinking about your startup.

When you build a startup, it’s not glamorous at all. When you build a startup, you are in constant fear because you are per definition in a fragile situation, in an emerging market, and with very little security trying to do things that have never been done before. Fear is the engine of a startup.

When you build a startup, you risk everything. Even as a serial entrepreneur, you will often put everything you’ve earned back on the line because you’re willing to take that next big risk, in the hope of the next big reward. It’s nights and nights lying awake thinking about what could go wrong, and what would happen to your life, your family and your reputation if your startup failed.

Lajpat

Word Curious defines me precisely I have a technologically oriented mindset with relative tinge of common sense Visual modality rules within; Intuition takes the lead I have a strange admiration for symmetrical geometry I also have a keen intent to know WHY & HOW of many processes & functions leading to Mastery of None Change & Chaos, Cleanliness & Order, I embrace all such vagaries of life with some reluctance at times but always with full Commitment Rhythmic Verses follows Logical Thoughts

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