3 Tough Things For An Entrepreneur

As a cofounder and business development manager of technology based start up which builds one of most unique and radical B2B product in India, here is a quick peek of toughest corners:

Toughest Job: Finding and sustaining the valuable techie who has a good intelligent quotient and a great start up spirit.

Toughest Customer: The one who gives you time to understand the product, months to evaluate the offering, pay for pilot to believe the value, take an year to finalize decision, gives commitment to buy. Later, in the end, hesitatingly says that they are not ready to adopt the solution. Reason? Something that they knew from day one.

Toughest Employee: When market is validated, you have more than 3 paid pilot MOU and multiple demo requests but no ready to ship product.  You need to hire more techies to double down the speed. You hired one because he is an intelligent champ and you need him to meet your promises given to potential client ( in India customer and guests are considered as god). Now, unfortunately,  he has zero start up orientation and no sense of ownership. Why he joined? Time and circumstances brought him in a start up. Not by choice but destiny. Every day he feel sorry that he is not in big MNCs like his every other friends.

Miracle Mantra To Govern Things

There is only two ways with which we see the world. One, seeing things the way they are. Second, the way we think it should be.

When one see oneself in mirror, they are willing to see them self as a person who is one of the most trusted amongst their friends, loved amongst their family and respected amongst their colleagues. If this is the case in point, how can one achieve this? Let me take an example and attempt to explain. If there is a foreign mark on your face that you see in the same mirror, how would you get rid of it? No matter how hard you try to remove the mark from the mirror image or change the mirror set itself, it would be just worthless. You can be really positive, dedicated, patient and consistent while doing this, but if you are doing at the wrong place, it's just worth less.

Last 30 years of research and studies backs the fact that the day when one start working on oneself, they would start experiencing things the way they expect from the external world. We all need to work on ourselves to change the outlook. It is always inside out and never outside in.

Friends, if this resonates with you or you have something candid to say about it, your comments are most welcomed below.